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ELI5: What is the difference between Marxism and socialsim?

Is Marxism the ideological premise for it? Then socialism is the actual economic structure?
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Marxism is a sociological principle created by Karl Marx.  Basically, it's the idea that there are two classes, the proletariats and the bourgeois.  In his theories, it is the bourgeois, who own the means of production, who actively exploit workers and reduce their standard of living.  Marx thought that when the proletariats, who greatly outnumber the bourgeois, would awaken a class consciousness and rebel, collectively seizing the means of production and establishing a completely egalitarian society.  Meanwhile, socialism is an economic and political system in which the public owns a great deal of property, especially the means of production, and the government has an active role in the economy.  Modern European democracies like Denmark are good examples of socialist nations.