Communist society

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Communist society is the final stage of human history as envisioned by Karl Marx. It follows the "withering away" of the socialist state.

In Marx's view, Capitalism comes into power via the thesis-antithesis-synthesis paradigm, and will inevitably be overthrown by the same way to create Socialism. However, socialism will not be overthrown but will transition naturally into "stateless communism".

Some writers object that Marx did not explain the (natural) process by which socialism would transition into communism. At least one writer notes that all other transitions were violent and objects to Marx's prediction of a non-violent transition as as a fatal inconsistency in Marxism^{[citation needed]}.