What is Soooo bloody horrible about communism?

Question

Isn't an extreme form of socialism? How is it defined?

Those who say it doesn't work, please look at China. IMHO, it is the only form of government that can actually work in China. b/c population

Answer 1

Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a 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.
Well the government control every single aspect of your life.There is no liberty,the moment you say something bad about communism or its leaders,they would throw you in jail.The people are not allowed think,just work for the good of the country...
It didn't work at all in the Eatern Europe,but it seems to work just great in China...

Answer 2

Nothing is so horrible about it; it just doesn't work.

If you were a doctor and your neighbor was a ditch digger, how would you feel if you both had the same amount of income? That is the problem with communal living---those who work harder or have more education fell they deserve more! But, there are enough riches in the world that we could all have nice homes, plenty of food, two or three cars, and any other "goodies" if we all "shared". It will never happen, though; the 5% of the world population who owns 95% of the wealth will never give it up!! Also, communism takes away incentives to achieve more...it stifles competition. And "man" is just too greedy for it to ever work outside of a convent or monastery.

Answer 3

Communism is a wonderful idea in theory. Ideally in communism money is eliminated because it is no longer necessary. People work for the good of others and the government destributes everything equally among the people.
In practice this is not so great. People are greedy, the ones who are supposed to divide equally take almost everyting for themselves and divide the rest among their friends. Unlike what most americans think you can have a democracy and a communist economy at the same time since one it a political system and the other is economic.

Answer 4

I just went to China recently and I must say it wasn't at all what I expected. People seemed happy and their was alot of what seemed like capitalism. They had singers on Pepsi bottles making millions and people of all different incomes. But I'm glad to live in a democratic country. I would not like the government infringing on my freedom of speech, religion or rights. I think that they hide alot in places that are communist/ socialist. ex The government limiting everyone to one child, recently they limited people to having only one dog as well. They also arrested 9 priests at Christmas time for worshiping in a certain area. I understand over crowding is an issue and rules are rules but it seems very harsh.

Answer 5

Well for starters we are. Human beings as a species only know one thing ...survival of the fittest. Communism appeals to our desire to be better as a person, However given the state of who has run Communist countries....you can notice a trend. Their dictatorships Communism when designed by Karl Marx was for the blue collar man, the hard worker...not the exclusive and powerful it is a system designed to redristubute power to the very people who have none. I have always believed in every man and woman being equal but unfortunatly for us and our times we are a power dominated society
To answer you in one word...corruption...that is what makes communism horrible...

Answer 6

All idologies have flaws, Communism's great flaw was that it wasn't ever actually Communism. Communism is when you give yoursef up (and your rights) to a higher power and abdicate your rights and responsibilities for the common good.

It never worked out that way.

It is pure in intent, but the intent was never actually acchieved, and the system failed.

Answer 7

Humans

Answer 8

Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a 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. Early forms of human social organization have been described as 'primitive communism' by Marxists. However, communism as a political goal is generally a conjectured form of future social organization. There is a considerable variety of views among self-identified communists, including Maoism, Trotskyism, council communism, Luxemburgism, anarchist communism, 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 advanced communist mode of production all at once, but required a transitional period which Marx described as the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat, the first stage of communism. 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 it is capitalized, is often used to refer to the political and economic regimes under communist parties that 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.

There is a history of anti-communism in the United States, which manifested itself in the Sedition Act of 1918 and in the subsequent Palmer Raids, for example, as well as in the later period of McCarthyism. However, many regions of Latin America continue to have strong communist movements of various types.

With the decline of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe from the late 1980s and the breakup of the Soviet Union on December 8, 1991, communism's influence has decreased dramatically in Europe. However, around a quarter of the world's population still lives in Communist states, mostly in the People's Republic of China.

Answer 9

If my making a track were "bloody terrible" and he had the heart to inform me truth.....i might want to thank him and bypass take making a track training. he's the really choose with an oz. of credibility. Paula tells all of us that they sound great, even even as they obviously do not and that i might want to quite not discuss Randy as I easily have not something strong to assert about his judging both. by ways, Simon has great teeth. not really do you want to have your listening to checked (in case you imagine your making a track isn't bloody terrible) yet you want to have your eyesight checked too. thanks for the interesting question.

Answer 10

That the government controls everything...what you should earn etc... the bad thing is that is proven to fail. The problem is that government is run by people, and people are prone to be corrupt, and with absolute power, they are absolutely corrupt