if any deep questions remain, heres the manifesto that karl marx wrote.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Keep in mind Marx was a german, and died before the russian revolution. Something that often bothers me in school is that people assume that the form of communism that formed in russia is the same as Marx' idea of it.
com·mu·nism
1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
Marx·ism
1. The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society.
I believe that communism and marxism are used somewhat interchangeably, but Marxism is solely Karl Marx' take on communism, and his sole beliefs