Similarities Between Capitalism And Communism By Kleine

Capitalism and communism are two polar views of economic structure. Since I have been influenced by capitalism, my worldview is different from an individual who lived in a communist country. I would think the mature ‘self’ would be viewed differently between capitalism and communism. In capitalism, there is personal material belonging and the aspiration towards the American Dream that anything is possible to achieve. In communism, material and economic wealth is spread among the people equally. The goal in communism is to meet the basic needs of all individuals and people may strive less for self-actualization. Also, the view of a full and satisfying life would be different. In capitalism, there is a balance of giving and taking. There is

In the late 70’s, nearly 2 million Cambodians died of overwork, starvation, torture, and execution in what became known as the Cambodian genocide. A group known as the Khmer Rouge took control of the country in April 1975. Over the course of

The Cambodian Genocide happened between 1975 and 1979 in Cambodia where the Khmer Rouge, a guerrilla group, over threw the government and started a regime to bring Cambodia back to year zero . The Khmer Rouge called this the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea . Their aim was to purify society from the influence of the west, and to create a communist country . The Khmer Rouge started this by destroying what was left of the old society and executing the wealthy, educated and military people. They banned all outside languages and religion. An estimated figure of 1.7 million Cambodians where killed during this period by the Khmer Rouge .

Pol Pot played a role in mass violence in Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge. While taking over Cambodia, people were relocated, starved, and executed. The total death toll of the Cambodian genocide was around 2 million. Mao Zedong was perhaps the biggest advocate for mass violence. His plan, the Great Leap Forward, was a plan in which farmers would report higher agricultural gains than in reality. This would bring about a deficit within China and many people would soon start to starve and die from starvation. After the Great China Famine, the Cultural Revolution and Red Guards came into play. Red Guards roamed the cities and humiliated, persecuted, and or killed enemies of the state.

In Democratic Kampuchea, in 1975, the radicalistic Khmer Rouge party formed under the communist leader Pol Pot, who was inspired to create a political nation that followed the footsteps Stalinism and Maoism. Compared to the Holocaust, which was singlehandedly the worst genocide in the 20th century in my opinion, Pol killed a believed 1.7-3.0 million Cambodians.

In Cambodia, a genocide was carried out by the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979 in which an estimated one and a half to three million people died. The KR had planned to create a form of agrarian socialism which was founded on the ideals of Stalinism and Maoism. The KR policies of forced relocation of the population from urban centres, torture, mass executions, use of forced labor, malnutrition, and disease led to the deaths of an estimated 25 percent of the total population . The genocide ended following the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. At least 20,000 mass graves, known as the Killing Fields, have since been uncovered.

Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, claimed that this would help return them to their basic times creating a utopia, even though he went in the other direction. Khmer Rouge was the group of cambodian communist that took control. Him and his followers, killed 25 percent of their population by murdering, overworking and starving them to death. They mainly targeted doctors, teachers, monks, journalists, the rich, artists, and/or anyone with an education. They also targeted various religious and ethnic groups during the genocide like, religious enthusiasts, Buddhists,

     There are many different outcomes and problems that can occur as a result of the different systems. The benefits for communism are set up on a larger scale that takes time and effort, as for capitalism hard work produces quick gains. Since it is harder for people of communism to see direct results from their hard work, there can be a tendency of people doing less, but still receiving the same as everyone else. Thus, there needs to be some type of point system, which makes sure each person does enough work to show for the goods received. If the work is not done then something needs to be done, such as not giving them their share, jail time, or kicked out of the community, resulting in poorer living standards. Capitalism however, gives each individual a choice of the benefits they will receive from working hard or not. You still have the chance to be poor, but unlike communism you have the chance to become rich. In communism the hardest workers receive the same, but in capitalism the hardest workers reap the most rewards.

Oppression is never the answer, as you have found in my information about Tiananmen Square massacre. I firmly believe that massacre is the appropriate term, due to the fact that dissipating a group of people can be done in one of two ways, with first of those being with peaceful requests and the second being violent, and it is obvious that the Chinese chose the latter. The Tiananmen Square massacre proved to be an eye opener to a lot of people, with many of those people reluctant to accept that communism is a real problem, and its not as it all seems, it was a truly horrendous event that should live in history with great infamy. The Vietnam war was proof, to all, that due to communistic rule, Southern Vietnam was unable to simply remain democratic, because to Northern Vietnam, it was all about acquiring more land and people, and spreading the influence of communism. In my research and previous knowledge on The Vietnam war, I was able to make a quick consensus with what I had always believed. Those that lived throughout Vietnam, during the war, lived in absolute horrendous and decrepit situations, and once the war was in full swing, it only seemed to get worse. Much of what killed the civilians and U.S. troops, wasn’t necessarily being shot, but rather falling into a pit of punji sticks, or walking into a trip wire. Exposure and infection was as much of a killer in this war as the bullets themselves. The Cold war could have ended very differently, and although communism is still prevalent around the world (Cuba, Russia, North Korea, etc) it is certainly not as rampant as it was 30 years ago. War. War causes pain, it causes disaster in certain cases, but in the scheme things, wouldn’t war be better than being oppressed by a malignant political

The Cambodian genocide began in 1975 when Pol Pot, a Khmer Rouge leader, attempted to for a Communist peasant farming society. About 1.5 million Cambodians died. [10]

One of the worst cases of a Genocide ever reported by man, was the Cambodian Genocide. A party leader of the, Khmer Rouge, commonly known as “Pol Pot”, became in charge of running and making laws of Cambodia, killed over 2 million of Cambodia’s total population. Pol Pot wanted to create the ideal communist model, and was seeking to create just that. The Khmer Rouge believed that all Cambodians should be slave workers of collective farms. Anyone that did not follow by this rule was executed. This rule was not limited to Muslims, Christians, Intellectuals, educated people, and religious enthusiasts. The Khmer Rouge were not very trusting. They frequently spied and interrogated members of their group to make sure they were on the right side. Millions were forced to work without medical supply and/or food. Sadly all these lives were lost because no one had the power or strength to stop it from happening.

Despite bearing many differences, communism and capitalism have a few similarities. I chose to compare capitalism and communism because they are the two most popular economic systems in the world. The definition of capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled for profit rather than by the state. The definition of communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. The main similarities between the two are both of them must participate in global markets, both involve the use of state and or private property, and both use incredible amounts of violence to destroy their opposition and enforce their system.

The two dominant economic systems we have in the world today are socialism and capitalism. In this text, I will in addition to comparing and contrasting socialism and capitalism also discuss the shortcomings of these two economic systems. Further, amongst other things, I will highlight the overlaps between the two.

The reason was that the communists got rid of inconvenient people. They fired people, they made sure their children couldn't get on the desired universities; they blackmailed, tortured and killed people through staged trials. For the majority of society it was simpler to act as if they were okay with the regime. In this day and age human rights are secured through countless declarations, laws and treaties. International organizations oversee observance and countries that breach these contracts have to face sanctions and they have to answer to the International Court of Justice.

Ideologies create wars. Throughout history there have been dozens and dozens of systems of government created to achieve what some would call “The Perfect Society”. Because everyone has a different “idea” of this perfect society, nations have collapsed and there have been millions killed. Government is the most important entity in a citizen's life. Why? Because government controls people; every single aspect of their lives and all of their freedoms. The two most talked about and analyzed systems are that of Communism and Capitalism. They have been compared on many levels, such as why they will or will not work, and which one works better. Capitalism and Communism are two forms of government that have very different and clashing views on the world, their main differences are about economic equality, the government’s philosophy, and the government’s role in its citizens lives.