Keeping in mind that anarchism is not a homogeneous ideology, there are some notions that Anarchism and Marxism share in common.

These are:

• Both Anarchists and Marxists have their roots in the Industrial Revolution. Both appeared as reactions to the aggravated conditions, and intense oppression during the mid-19th Century. For both, the perfecting of industrialized economics and the reach of their economic organs resulted in an increasing mechanization and quantification of productive activity. Parallel to this development, the whole human life itself and the leisure produced by material progress became an emptiness that is to be filled by mindless distraction and violence (Thomas, 2010, p. 2).
• Both are materialists and believe that people are shaped within the social and economic context of the society they live in.
• They both accept Marx’s theory which suggests that labor creates value and much of this value is seized by capitalists during the production process.
• They both believe that due to their role in the production process, working class has potential to destroy capitalism and create a classless society.
• Both believe that the only way to destroy capitalism is revolution that must be international to be successful. The differences among them are largely related to state and leadership. The main differences may be summarized as following (Heywood 2003; Thomas, 2010):