The answer would be yes. Modern democracy has the Athenians and Pericles to thank for bringing the ideas to fruition.
<span>Karl Marx was a German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism.
Marxism is </span><span>the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism.</span>