What is Communism? Anyone pls explain briefly.....?

Answer 1

"From all, according to their ability, to each, according to their need." This means that under communism, those who are able to produce a surplus above their basic needs get the surplus taken by the government and given to those who don't produce a surplus. In other words, the more you make, the less you keep, and the less you produce, the more you get. This system seems like it might be better for the poor, but it isn't, because people have no selfish interest to produce goods, so they produce less, and when you add up the national total, you've got less to share, and everyone is worse off. You wind up with a country full of poor people, with a very few powerful people running the show.

Answer 2

Karl Marx's idea of communism consisted of three phases
Phase 1. REVOLUTION there should be a revolution where the current government (capitalism, socialism) is overthrown
PHASE 2. DICTATORSHIP one person or group should take over all aspect of live, what jobs people get and what level of education should they receive where people live etc. the dictatorship is there to remove all opposition and make sure everything is for the good of all the people and all the country. No communist nation has been past phase 2
PHASE 3 : UTOPIA once the leaders or dictator of the country has successfully thrown out, or killed, all the non-communist, they will step down and everyone in the country is equal. equal pay, equal social class, etc.

no country has past phase 2 because
“power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - George Orwell
and even if the leaders step down and complete true communism, whose to stop those who want power and eventually will take it

Answer 3

Communism is a system where the working class is EQUALLY poor and the ruling class is filthy rich. The community is more important than the individual. Therefore nothing that disturbs the community, like religion, is allowed. The community is told what to say and what to think. As long as you go along with the state sponsored propaganda you will survive. All deviations are exterminated.

Answer 4

In my opinion, Communism is the system that makes it possible to do the least amount of work or, a poor quality of work, and reap an unearned benefit for that limited effort.
If you have two workers working side by side and the one worker is working very hard and the other isn't, they both get paid or rewarded equally in a communist system.
That is why communism/socialism fails every time it's tried.

Answer 5

To answer SuperBill he is referring to Communism as part of a totalitarian state which as he points out on the national scale has been a disaster.
However, the informal communal agricultural system practiced in Israeli Kibbutzes and in the rich agricultural land of Emilia-Romagna in Italy has been highly successful.
In Israel the profits of some agricultural kibbutzes has been ploughed back into creating high tech companies that have competed with the best in teh world.
In Italy they produce high quality luxury products of Parmesan Cheese and Parma Ham and sell for a large profit. Here groups of farmers share expensive capital farming equipment and labour across several farms that allows them to bring in the harvest without enriching 3rd parties such as banks or multi-nationals. It has been very successful economically for this region, and greatly enriched the individuals who directly were doing the hard work.
For this to work you need people who passionately believe in working fo rteh good of the community as a whole at the expense of the individual, as the survivors of the Holocaust did. Nowadays for the latest generation Israelis this sense of altruism has gone, and people are more interested in getting rich themselves and living in their own private home.

Answer 6

Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement. Communism also refers to a variety of political movements which claim the establishment of such a social organization as their ultimate goal.

Answer 7

Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production.

where everyone gets the same no matter how hard they work compared to others. dictorial leadership whats good for one is good for all .

woohoo

Answer 8

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What is Communism?
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.




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What is the proletariat?
The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition. The proletariat, or the class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the 19th century.[1]




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Proletarians, then, have not always existed?
No. There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today; in other words, there have not always been proletarians, any more than there has always been free unbridled competitions.




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How did the proletariat originate?
The Proletariat originated in the industrial revolution, which took place in England in the last half of the last (18th) century, and which has since then been repeated in all the civilized countries of the world.

This industrial revolution was precipitated by the discovery of the steam engine, various spinning machines, the mechanical loom, and a whole series of other mechanical devices. These machines, which were very expensive and hence could be bought only by big capitalists, altered the whole mode of production and displaced the former workers, because the machines turned out cheaper and better commodities than the workers could produce with their inefficient spinning wheels and handlooms. The machines delivered industry wholly into the hands of the big capitalists and rendered entirely worthless the meagre property of the workers (tools, looms, etc.). The result was that the capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers. This marked the introduction of the factory system into the textile industry.

Once the impulse to the introduction of machinery and the factory system had been given, this system spread quickly to all other branches of industry, especially cloth- and book-printing, pottery, and the metal industries.

Labor was more and more divided among the individual workers so that the worker who previously had done a complete piece of work now did only a part of that piece. This division of labor made it possible to produce things faster and cheaper. It reduced the activity of the individual worker to simple, endlessly repeated mechanical motions which could be performed not only as well but much better by a machine. In this way, all these industries fell, one after another, under the dominance of steam, machinery, and the factory system, just as spinning and weaving had already done.

But at the same time, they also fell into the hands of big capitalists, and their workers were deprived of whatever independence remained to them. Gradually, not only genuine manufacture but also handicrafts came within the province of the factory system as big capitalists increasingly displaced the small master craftsmen by setting up huge workshops, which saved many expenses and permitted an elaborate division of labor.

This is how it has come about that in civilized countries at the present time nearly all kinds of labor are performed in factories – and, in nearly all branches of work, handicrafts and manufacture have been superseded. This process has, to an ever greater degree, ruined the old middle class, especially the small handicraftsmen; it has entirely transformed the condition of the workers; and two new classes have been created which are gradually swallowing up all the others. These are:

(i) The class of big capitalists, who, in all civilized countries, are already in almost exclusive possession of all the means of subsistance and of the instruments (machines, factories) and materials necessary for the production of the means of subsistence. This is the bourgeois class, or the bourgeoisie.

(ii) The class of the wholly propertyless, who are obliged to sell their labor to the bourgeoisie in order to get, in exchange, the means of subsistence for their support. This is called the class of proletarians, or the proletariat.




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Under what conditions does this sale of the
labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place?
Labor is a commodity, like any other, and its price is therefore determined by exactly the same laws that apply to other commodities. In a regime of big industry or of free competition – as we shall see, the two come to the same thing – the price of a commodity is, on the average, always equal to its cost of production. Hence, the price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor.

But, the costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life.

However, since business is sometimes better and sometimes worse, it follows that the worker sometimes gets more and sometimes gets less for his commodities. But, again, just as the industrialist, on the average of good times and bad, gets no more and no less for his commodities than what they cost, similarly on the average the worker gets no more and no less than his minimum.

This economic law of wages operates the more strictly the greater the degree to which big industry has taken possession of all branches of production.




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What working classes were there before the industrial revolution?
The working classes have always, according to the different stages of development of society, lived in different circumstances and had different relations to the owning and ruling classes.

In antiquity, the workers were the slaves of the owners, just as they still are in many backward countries and even in the southern part of the United States.

In the Middle Ages, they were the serfs of the land-owning nobility, as they still are in Hungary, Poland, and Russia. In the Middle Ages, and indeed right up to the industrial revolution, there were also journeymen in the cities who worked in the service of petty bourgeois masters. Gradually, as manufacture developed, these journeymen became manufacturing workers who were even then employed by larger capitalists.

Answer 9

It is a goverment made by the russians that has full control of a communist nation.

Answer 10

one person controls every factory, school, and peice of proporty in the whole country. they decide what everybody thinks, whats on tv, what your children are learning and how much money everybody makes. just, total control.