how is communism good?

Question

what are the characteristics of communism?
what are the advantages (are there any economic systems that can be used as an example)?
how does the system affect normal everyday people?
are there any ways to overcome the weaknesses in the system?

Answer 1

Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production and the absence of private property. 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.

Early forms of human social organization have been described as 'primitive communism' by Marxists. However, communism as a political goal generally is a conjectured form of future social organization. There is a considerable variety of views among self-identified communists, including Maoism, Trotskyism, council communism, Luxemburgism, Christian communism, and various currents of left communism, which are generally the more widespread varieties. However, various offshoots of the Soviet (what critics call the 'Stalinist') and Maoist interpretations of Marxism-Leninism comprise a particular branch of communism that has the distinction of having been the primary driving force for communism in world politics during most of the 20th century. The competing branch of Trotskyism has not had such a distinction.

Karl Marx held that society could not be transformed from the capitalist mode of production to the communist mode of production all at once, but required a state transitional period which Marx described as the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. The communist society Marx envisioned emerging from capitalism has never been implemented, and it remains theoretical; Marx in fact commented very little on what Communist society would actually look like. However, the term 'Communism', especially when the word is capitalized, is often used to refer to the political and economic regimes under communist parties which claimed to embody the dictatorship of the proletariat.

In the late 19th century, Marxist theories motivated socialist parties across Europe, although their policies later developed along the lines of "reforming" capitalism, rather than overthrowing it. The exception was the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. One branch of this party, commonly known as the Bolsheviks and headed by Vladimir Lenin, succeeded in taking control of the country after the toppling of the Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1918, this party changed its name to the Communist Party, thus establishing the contemporary distinction between communism and other trends of socialism.

After the success of the October Revolution in Russia, many socialist parties in other countries became communist parties, signaling varying degrees of allegiance to the new Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After World War II, Communists consolidated power in Eastern Europe, and in 1949, the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China, which would later follow its own unique ideological path of communist development. Among the other countries in the Third World that adopted a pro-communist government at some point were Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, Laos, Angola, and Mozambique. By the early 1980s almost one-third of the world's population lived in Communist states.

Since the early 1970s, the term "Eurocommunism" was used to refer to the policies of communist parties in western Europe, which sought to break with the tradition of uncritical and unconditional support of the Soviet Union. Such parties were politically active and electorally significant in France and Italy.

Answer 2

I'll do my best on this, while some of my answers may appear somewhat "flippant" I also believe they are true.....

"how is communism good?" - I think that the only way it could possibly be called "good" is that after murdering around 100,000,000 during the 20th. century, it is finally heading for the trashcan of history, where it belongs.

"what are the advantages (are there any economic systems that can be used as an example)?" - There are absolutely no "good" examples of successful Communist states. Every one in history has been a disaster of major proportions causing, not only terrible repression and terror among the people but genuine economic collapse and untold human misery. Look at the vast starvation in North Korea, or at Cuba where hundreds of thousands of women are forced into the sex trade just to feed their children.
Even the milder form called "socialism" has proven to be pretty much a total failure everywhere it has been tried.

"how does the system affect normal everyday people?" - mostly they live pointless, hopeless lives of deprivation and fear, with little material comfort, just waiting for the secret state police to catch them for complaining about the terrible living conditions and put them into concentration camps. Their only dream and hope is that perhaps one day a Reagan, a Thatcher, a John Paul might help to defeat their oppressive communistic regimes and they will be able to experience freedom..........

"are there any ways to overcome the weaknesses in the system?" - Yes, the very best way is to NEVER allow it to take over your country and if it does, you need to get rid of it no matter WHAT the cost! Remember, your life and the lives of your family, friends and associates will be less than worthless under a communistic system, so WHATEVER it takes to stop them will be worth it in the end........

Answer 3

Ideally communism makes all men equal by paying equal amounts for every job or career. Humans, imperfect as they are, feel an instinctual need for superiority over others, thereby creating conflict.Could we all walk in step towards one goal?
that goal would have to have a profound effect on each individual to foster complete co-operation. After all, your definition of happiness is different than mine. Plus plenty of people, believers and disbelievers alike, think the world is coming to an end soon. Like almost any other form of government, those who are in, or connected to the governing body feel their philosophy is working. Those left out disagree.

Answer 4

Communism is basically equality for everyone. The problem with this is it means the government is given a lot of extra power and becomes totalitarian. There are no economic advantages that i'm aware of.

Answer 5

Communism is good in theory, but in all other ways it is a failure and vastly inferior to the capitalistic democratic model. If the 20th century taught us anything it is that Communism just doesnt work.

Answer 6

Check out the old Soviet Union. Stalin put twenty million people like you to death.

Move to North Korea and study real communism.

Answer 7

COMMUNISM GOOOOOOOOD????????????????
ITS BULLSHIT & HORRIBLE.
WHERE THE LEADER'S LIVE A LAVISH LIFE & THE COMMON MAN IS TO STRUGGLE.WHERE THE LEADER'S THRIVE & THE COMMON MAN JUST STRIVES/
ITS WOULD BE BETTER IF WE CALL IT LIMITED CAPITALISM . YOU ARE NOT HAVING ANY SORTS OF INDEPENDENCE(LOOK AT WEST BENGAL IN INDIA ,IT HAS BEEN REDUCED TO CHEAP DIRT IN 26 YRS BY THE COMMUNISTS)

Answer 8

Wouldn't it be easier for you to just take a look at communist countries and non-communist countries?

Answer 9

everubody have the same rights no mether what!

Answer 10

Its so good it has failed every time it was tried. Cuba, give it time.