The Restrictive Nature Of Communism

The idea of socialism challenged the way thinkers saw labor by wanting more equally distributed labor. The idea that workers were trained as a whole equally, there would be an increase in the quality of labor. The socialistic idea is that instead of individuals being most important, society as a whole should be top priority. The government training workers and providing employment is what socialists were striving for and they believed it “is easily practicable” (Document 1). If the government would spare the money, time and effort in training and providing workers with jobs, an

The United States mission to eradicate and halt the spread of communism within Europe and Asia was a new challenge and a new responsibility. America hoped to effectively stop and fight against communism; which is had so vigorously fought against in WWII. The United States needed to control the communist ideas and influence it had on other countries; while preventing its influence ever coming to America. The United States planned on and hoped to stop the corruption of communism from the new threats; The Soviet Union and Asia.

Since the U.S. was founded (July 4th 1776) the U.S. has been at war constantly. Although this may not be believable to some readers, the U.S. has been at war for 93% of its existence (222 out of the 239 years). Out of the many wars the U.S. has been a part of, the Cold War had the potential to be the most dangerous. Even though The Soviet Union and the U.S. were a part of an alliance in World War II, recently after this war ended the U.S. and the Soviets were not on good terms. The U.S. believed in following the political and economic system of capitalism, the Soviets strongly believed in communism. While the United States was content with the Soviets believing in communism, what the U.S. did not find acceptable was the Soviets attempt to spread communism. The real question is, how can the U.S. stop these countries, when they had such straight forward leaders? To bribe countries in Eastern Europe to not dive into communism, the U.S. created the Truman Doctrine and the

The Communist Manifesto starts with the famous quote, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (Marx and Engels, p. 14). This quote indicates the class struggle evolved from capitalism where mankind focused their efforts on improving society by desiring more physical means to provide monetary value. Since Marx was philosophical materialist, he held the belief that everything is matter, solid and physical. According to this belief, the human mind is simply neurons firing and everything the body and mind is capable of can be explained biologically. Following this principle, the only things of importance are materialistic objects, therefore objects are of the most value. Ergo, Marx’s prominent claim

The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is a political pamphlet summarizing Marx and Engels political theories on communism. Marx and Engels were German authors and revolutionaries with unique ideas for their time. Engels joined the Communist League in 1847, where he outlined twenty-two questions about communism in the “Draft of the Communist Confession of Faith”(Engels). These ideals were restructured and published four months later in his piece, “The Principles of Communism”. Marx saw value in

In the Marxist theory you are rewarded for you contribution and for you talent. Instead of wage labor, one is rewarded with food and clothing. Thus ridding the nation of its need for money, you get as much as you give and that shall do the country good. Laziness will be at an all time low, no welfare to catch those that refuse to work. You must work for your food, warmth,

Generally, Marx’s position on religion is drawn up in an entirely negative manner. In his writings, he expresses his belief that religion is a set of doctrines intended to stabilize, while at the same time bring into servitude the working class people. In addition to that, he argues that the society’s inclination towards religious excitement serves to represent a reaction to disaffection. Also, Marx contends that, since religion causes human beings to feel delusive happiness it makes an erroneous mental representation in as well as of itself. Indeed to him, it is an instrument utilized to sustain cultural systems together with ideologies that in most cases encourages oppression in the society (Parsons 38-46).

Marx understanding of society shift into modernism lead to develop a form of communism that would come to be known as Marxism, communism is the economic thought of Marxism. Marx understands that Modernism calls for society to embrace equality for the betterment of society. Part of the problem with Capitalism comes from its exploitation of the working class; Marx understands this problem to be a vein of Pre-modernism and not a pillar of Modernism. Marx calls for the working class to rise up over their bourgeoisie oppressors and seize the equality that rightfully belongs to them. “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other – bourgeoisie and proletariat. (Communist pg. 9)” If society wants to embrace modernism, then society needs to shift its focus from fighting each other and one exploiting another to a classless society. Marx highly criticizes the bourgeoisie in The Communist Manifesto, and this stems from the problems they created for themselves and for the rest of society. In their attempt to gain more power, land, and resources, their material conditions, upon the prominence which their families had been formed, were dissipating due to the lack of foresight and selfish greed. If the Bourgeoisie continues to exploit the proletariat then society will head to conflict, as is expected of Pre-modernism, but if the Bourgeoisie cease its exploitation and relinquish its power for the group,

Karl Marx is the most famous theoretician of communism. Johnson acknowledges Marx’s most famous quote: “From each according to his ability; to each according to his need” which is a thought that within itself includes the basic idea of communism. Professor Johnson explains that the deeper deliberation of the concept is that everyone is expected to co-operate in the process of production. The individual citizen’s equal rights of access to consumer goods though would be completely unaffected by his own individual contribution to production. (Johnson) It was expected of people to stop thinking about money and how much they get, how much they can spend and how to get more. Furthermore they had to stop thinking about profit, contracts, banking, loans, insurance etc. The communist leaders thought that would eliminate all the major social problems such as class conflict, political oppression, racial discrimination, inequality of sexes, religious prejudice, and cultural backwardness. They believed it would also put an end to more such “psychological” forms of suffering as isolation and feelings of powerlessness. Johnson claims that the specific type of communism that occurred in Easter Europe was the Marxist-Leninist variant of socialism where people believed that a truly communist society can be achieved only through the powerful overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a “dictatorship of the proletariat”. They thought that

German philosopher and socialist Karl Marx once famously said, “The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.” In other words, no one owns any private property and everyone receive equal shares of the benefits that they labored for. Class divisions do not exist anymore as everyone is equal, at least in theory. Karl Marx’s theory of communism popularized into a practice that forever altered the world. Even though Marx's idea of communal property sounds appealing, the main communist theory is rotten at its core and resulted in a terrorizing practice.

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What would abolishing all private mean for the economy, and more importantly, how far would the abolishing go? When Karl Marx said “The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.” (4), we do not know if he meant all properties such as houses, buildings, etc., or if he meant all private property, such as a car, video games, etc. However, if we take a closer look at communism values, then we make an educated guess at what Karl Marx meant. The core principle of communism is that everyone gets equal wages “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”(1), no matter what your job is. This meant that everyone would have the opportunity to excel in a society where unfair wages would not

     What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. It also can be defined as a conceptualized system of government in which resources and production facilities are the property of the entire society rather than individuals. In a communist society, labor is shared equally as well, and the benefits of labor are distributed according to need (Communism.4all 1). No one person shall be ranked higher than another and there is to be one person in charge of the society in a communism government. There are still to this day many countries that fall under the rule of communism and the ways they were transformed under communist rule is quite interesting.

There can be no doubt over the wide-ranging influence of Karl Marx’s theories on sociology and political thought. His concept of communism overcoming the socioeconomic pitfalls of capitalism has not been a theory that has seen the light of day in the way that he may have hypothesised. There have been many throughout history that have misrepresented Marx’s writing, which begs the question, if pure communism in the original Marxist sense is at all possible given that humanity appears to have an innate ‘need’ for hierarchy and a thirst for power.

In the beginning Communism seemed to the people of Russia as a utopian ideal. The promise of the elimination of classes, of guaranteed employment, "The creation of a comprehensive social security and welfare system for all citizens that would end the misery of workers once and for all." Lenin's own interpretation of the Marxian critique was that to achieve Communism there would first have to be a socialist dictatorship to first suppress any dissent or protest. Through coercive tactics this new government seized power and in 1917 Lenin came to power. Under his "rule" Russia underwent radical changes in it's economic doctrines adopting a mixed which was termed the New Economic Policy, also referred to as NEP. This