2006-10-18 13:41:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Did you mean "USSR"... the soviot union? they failed because they drained their financial resources into their neuclear arsenal and fell apart.
2006-10-18 13:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A centrally controlled economic system will always fail. A modern industrial society is to complex to be centrally controlled.
But the very basic reason is if you have a system where the more you produce the more you make everyone ( or at least enough) try to increase their productivity. On the other hand if you have a system where everyone is paid the same the game then becomes who can do the least. Next thing you know there isn't enough being produced to go around. The Socialist and Communist systems have one thing in common they are always shortages, sometimes as in the case of North Korea, and Zimbabwe even food.
2006-10-18 14:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean the USSR. My short answer is because Communism is not economically productive as compared with other economic systems.
"Starting in the 1970s, however, and particularly during the 1980s, growth rates slowed down in the Soviet Union and throughout the Communist world. The reasons for this downturn are still a matter of debate among economists, but there is a general consensus that the Communist states had reached the limits of the extensive growth model they were pursuing, and the downturn was at least in part caused by their refusal or inability to switch to intensive growth"
Perhaps one reason for the failure was that lack of incentive for anyone to achieve excellence. Compare to Capitalism, where excellence is rewarded (usually). Motivation of the masses toward productive labor is the greatest challenge of any Communist system.
See the link below...
2006-10-18 13:48:08 · answer #3 · answered by MrLou 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the soviet government was run by gangsters. the economy was non existent. the soviet people were stymied
by the lack of free enterprise. if you have to give everything to the government why should you bother to start a business ? corruption was rampant. government officials were also gang leaders. much like the American mob. if you wanted something in the soviet union you had to go to the mob. bottom line is that communism doesn't work. look at the N. Koreans. the Chinese have a capitalist communism. they are communist that want to make money too. money makes the world go around and the Russians had none. not to mention that the American backed Taliban fought the soviets to the poor house.
2006-10-18 13:53:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two reasons...
The communist centralized economy was not as efficient as the matket economy of the West. Then when it went into the cold war, not only it had to keep up with the US in military spending, it had to match the US spending in foreign aids to the Soviet Bloc as well. That resulted in bankrupting the country. In the end, it was the US economic might that won the cold war.
2006-10-18 15:57:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no incentive for anyone to go or do beyond what is the minimal effort required. It would all be the same anyway.
2006-10-18 13:44:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The USSR (CCCP)? Well, they were geared incorrectly, socially and governmentally, to compete with a capitalist nation, and its allies.
2006-10-18 13:44:36 · answer #7 · answered by sjsosullivan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because of captalist pressure. The powers that be sobataged the communist regime, that wasn't even good to start with
2006-10-18 13:44:05 · answer #8 · answered by jabanael f 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ask to Stalin.
2006-10-18 13:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by Mr.Death 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mainly from corruption and the russian mafia
2006-10-18 13:46:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋