Communism was doing just fine until America's interference and propaganda war. Communism would have abolished religion from all aspects of the state. Socialism is ultimately going to overtake America as it is incrementally as with the start of Social Security to Medicare to other such programs. Why did America fear communism? It's never really existed. Soviet Russia wasn't truly communist nor is China today.
2006-09-13 09:34:45 · 19 answers · asked by King of Babylon 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Communism failed because it was far too centralized and did not allow for sufficient regional autonomy.
2006-09-13 10:19:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have got to be kidding right? The history of Russia is steeped very deeply in religion. Just because some communist got a hold in 1918, it did not take the faith out of the people. The funny thing is that there was hopes of capitalism taking hold after they did away with the czar. The socialist party though working with the uneducated peasants created the society in which they have. They have created a society that only does what it needs to and no more. It doesn't pay. The US will never be taken over by the socialist, we are too greedy and want our freedom too much. So it will never happen. I know the socialist are hoping that our dumbing down of Americans will help. That's what helped them in Russia, was the vast amounts of ignorance and uneducated people. Russia tried communism and it didn't work, and their socialist government also doesn't work. That is why china is socialist with capitalistic economy. As long as we have the 2nd Amendment we will be free.
2006-09-13 16:45:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok, you end by saying that the USSR and China weren't or aren't true forms of communism. Yet you begin by saying communism was doing just fine before American interference and propaganda.
You are unlikely to be a student of economics or sociology. Millions upon millions of people died for simply stating to Stalin and his cronies that communism WASN'T working. And this was WAY BEFORE the advent of the Cold War. Religion was NEVER abolished from the USSR nor the PROC. Religion was in the social fabric of these cultures long before communism ever came or left.
Socialism has taken over countries like Sweden, France and to a certain extent, the UK. It has done so because the governments there have caved into the demand of the masses for more government subsidization of their lives (like the capped work week of 35 hours in France, for 39 hours of pay, thereby providing incentive for workers to be less productive and get paid more, but not considering this action as something that would deter companies from hiring any more people, leading to double digit unemployment during a global economic boom).
Socialism is only taking hold in the mindsets of those in America's inner cities and culturally diverse centers. WHY? Because we've let many people into the country who do not subscribe to capitalist notions of building a life for one's self on the premise of one's own work and contributions. This subset of America views the tax-paying employee base as evil and unfairly wealthy, and is pressuring fickle politicians to commandeer more tax dollars to distribute to legal and illegal individuals for social and economic programs that have so far proved fruitless. The funny part of it is, the more tax dollars you try to take from the working public, the less they'd be interested in working (who wants to work for 20% of your pay?) harder to support the socialist programs. Also, where states consume more of one's paycheck through excessive taxation, those states will lose hard working citizens to other states who don't impose such severe taxes and leave more of one's income to the wage earner.
Communism wasn't feared so much as despised. Well, the USSR version was. Totalitarianism in the guise of worker or peasant led government was a systematic robbery of one's productivity, livelihood and will. That was not to be tolerated in a free state like the U.S. Communism had severe economic flaws, requiring constant retooling, currency devaluation, massive borrowing and continual corruption and labor strife to even get by for one day.
It wasn't doing just fine, and died in the USSR. It isn't doing just fine in China, which is now quickly becoming a state controlled capitalist economy, rather than a communist one, and the only real example is the sad state of affairs in the Kingdom of Castro.
You need to really provide more substance around your assertions, and more math to show how the communist economy of the USSR was humming along and had long-term viability where capitalism didn't before you make such claims.
Last I checked, capitalism is the world's economic system, and communism is an historical term.
Nice try.
2006-09-13 16:50:54 · answer #3 · answered by rohannesian 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Communism didn't fail in China; it evolved into the socialism that has created a healthier economy than the US. $3Trillion missing from the Pentagon "budget"? How many trillions in debt because of fat-cats getting rich on war and death? America owned by foreign capital? No wonder. There's a sucker born every minute.
2006-09-13 17:01:11 · answer #4 · answered by afriendof CLIFFy D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America didn't kill it, it died a natural death because it's premises and the abuses committed by it's leaders destroyed it.
American politicians had a field day with it, gave them a lot of ammunition to throw at each other and kept half the peopled scared rabbits and the rest pot shotting at each other. Got a lot of them elected, too.
Nearest thing it ever came to a showdown was the Cuban Missile Crisis, and JFK stood them down on that one, they knew all along that we could whip their arses, but our politicians didn't want the public to know. Got to have that edge of manipulation .
It would have failed on it's own. period.
2006-09-13 16:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Communist failed themselves, the USA didn't have a lot to do with it.
And Reagan gets too much credit for Russia's changes.
2006-09-13 16:40:29 · answer #6 · answered by Villain 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Communism requires people to act conterary to their own self-interest for the betterment of society as a whole. It was destined to fail long before the laughable attempts at implementation....
2006-09-13 16:43:59 · answer #7 · answered by Silver 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Joseph Stalin
2006-09-13 16:37:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think perhaps we caused it to speed up but I really think it would have failed on it's own. In the forms it was implemented in it was just too easily corruptible.
2006-09-13 16:37:54 · answer #9 · answered by Kevin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True communism has never existed and never will, it's a pipe dream. Individuality is the death nell of communism .
2006-09-13 16:42:29 · answer #10 · answered by razeumright 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋