Does anyone know what people created communism and why it took control of so may countries so swiftly?

Question

Why didn't America become involved when communism was taking control of Europe? To argue it was a system and not a country, then explain why America didn't become involved when Russian tanks rolled in Hungary in 1956? Isn't the reason we went to war against Iraq the first time because they invaded Kuwait?

I won't go into detail why all these first five answers are completely wrong. Communism is a Jewish creation. I don't think anyone would argue that communism is something that should be snuffed out and not allowed to rear it's ugly head again. If that is the case, then why do business with communist China, but not with Cuba? There is a communist party in America. Why is it allowed to recruit people in peace, but the militia or any right wing group is hounded by the government? Communism was created by the same people that ran it. Stalin changed his name. Marx changed his name. Trotsky changed his name. Lenin and everyone of the upper leaders of communism were J _ _ _ _ _. Can anyone fill in the blanks? I would assume that everyone would say that communism is our enemy. Then why is it allowed to recruit in America peacefully? Why is that anyone who was even near one of the camps used to house prisoners in Poland and Germany put on trial, but not one communist has stood trial?

America is a Republic or is suppose to be. And to the republic for which it stands. Americans don't even know what system ot what kind of system we're suppose to have. I'm serious about this. Americans are too stupid to even throw out the bastards in our own government. We got no right telling the world how to behave.

Answer 1

Check out the Comunist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

Answer 2

Uh, no offense but based on your additional comments, it looks like you've already made up your mind about these topics and aren't looking for an answer, but rather for people to agree with your point of view, whatever it is.

"I don't think anyone would argue that communism is something that should be snuffed out " - this statement means that you (and everyone else) are FOR Communism. Are you sure that's really what you wanted to say?

I wouldn't worry about the "threat" of Communism, particularly in the U.S. That kind of thinking is SO 20th Century. Communism was a misguided, harmful ideology and thankfully it's been on the wane worldwide for decades now. Not everyone in the world is free yet, unfortunately, but Communism isn't winning any new converts.

We have many more pressing things to worry about than Communism these days, particularly the coming environmental disasters brought on by man-made climate changes, undoing the economic and foreign policy disasters of the Bush administration, etc.

Answer 3

Karl Marx is generally considered the father of communism. He laid down the theory in his book "The Communist Manifesto". Vladimir Lennin was behind the first communist revolution in Russia, in 1917. The reason the U.S. didn't get involved (aside from it being an internal Russian matter) was that we were heavily involved in World War I at the time. Communism spread wherever people felt exploited, which was most of eastern Europe and Asia at the time. Sometimes Russian agents aided and abetted the process, sometimes not, as in China. As for why we didn't get involved in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, the Russians had nukes. That's why. Iraq in 1991, didn't have nukes, so there was nothing to fear in that regard. Also, they were threatening to disrupt the world's (and our) supply of oil. That was the bottom line right there, oil.

Answer 4

i am going to edit.. in an hour.. basically telling you so that you do not close the q.. :)) edit: ok... so it may well be surrounded through water on 3 aspects and land on one aspect (in the north)... The beaches will be mind-blowing and characteristic white sand.. *__* the sea/sea will be so blue and sparkling that it would look surreal.. There will be coral reefs in the seas.. so that you would have a marvelous time snorkeling and scuba-diving... also the oceans will be finished of unique aquatic existence... transferring inland.. the land will be the most urbanized.. you would discover the tallest sky-scrapers.. The transportation equipment will be the most ideal in the completed international.. it would also be the most secure u . s . on earth... The streets and each and each and every of the roads will be equipped with CCTVs, which may be monitored 24*7.. No rapes, no murders, no thefts, no bombings, no shootings.. which will be the record.. besides the undeniable fact that the nature basically isn't sacrificed both... the country will be the greenest in the international.. someplace the position you would discover the tallest timber on earth.. Forests masking 1000's of acres of land will be reserved in some elements of the country which may also be the domicile of different maximum unique animals on earth... There will be no poaching... The north would have severe mountains which may be coated with snow throughout the three hundred and sixty 5 days.. All type of iciness sport activities will be accessible there... There will be no discrimination and all those who's of age will be required to paintings and make contributions some thing in route of the society.. i ought to bypass on and on... yet now i'm feeling too lazy to take action... gorgeous question..!!! Aquarius Venus 7H fifth domicile cusp Sagittarius Saturn in capricorn 5H actual node in capricorn 5H Sagittarius neptune 4H

Answer 5

wow you need a book long explanation... Marx wrote to book it became popular in Russia and took off. in 1956 we had already had enough war after WW2 and Korea and Now Russia Had Nukes. the fear was that they would use them against Europe first to let the US know they were serious. It is hard to Compare the Soviet War machine in the 50's that could have made good on destroying the world and a peanut country like Iraq. even though they had the 4th largest army in the world they were not a real consideration. The UN resolution that Protected Kuwait caused many nations to run to her aid.

Answer 6

Karl Marx is generally considered the father of Communism, as he wrote the Communist Manifesto. (Many of the original leaders of communist countries based their beliefs of the Communist Manifesto)

Communism took control of so many countries because, not only did the idea of no social classes and shared EVERYTHING seem very good to the people, but communist leaders are generally very charismatic (and all-powerful, and they have access to a lovely thing called 'propaganda.'

Answer 7

As has already been stated, Karl Marx is considered the founder of modern Communism.

What you have to consider, though, is that the Capitalism of the 1800s-1920s was not the "Capitalism" that we live in today. Capitalism at the time of the writing of the Communist Manifesto was the world of Charles Dickens, with kids chained up in factories for 12 hours for 6 1/2 days a week and adults being forced to live in a form of quasi-serfdom on land owned by factory owners, taking home only very small wages while a very very small fraction of the population, which did very little work, took home most of the profits.

Communism is directly influenced by the liberation philosophies of the American and French revolutions. At that point, the widely accepted serf mentality of feudalism had started to fall away and the people began to recognize that their labor was being exploited.

Marxism is essentially the study of economic and social systems with the conclusion being that these systems evolve over time as people become more conscious of their role in the world... moving away from slavery and towards greater and greater common cause of freedom.

Marx properly coined the term "Wage Slave" to refer to the plight of the common man at that time... since they existed in a relative state of economic slavery which, while not as bad as physical slavery, wasn't much different in its effect.

He also coined the phrase "the mob of the unemployed" because workers used to be hired on a day-by-day basis in some industries. Those not chosen to work that day would wait at the gates of the factories. If a worker complained about their treatment or pay, they would be fired for that day and one of the unemployed would be brought in to take their place. The mob of people served as a deterrant to positive action by the workers.

Communists provided an answer to this problem of exploitation: unite and work towards a system where the rights of working class (proletariat) would be paramount and where the class system could be dissolved once and for all.

Some Communists (like Karl Marx) were systematic in their thinking and while at some times promoted Communist systems at the time, more often wrote that Communism was simply the end goal of economic history - the dissolution of the class system and the negation of slavery and discrimination of all forms was the end result. Contrary to popular belief, Karl Marx did not predict the date or time of the downfall of Capitalism.

But most Communists (including the Communist League, whom Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto for, Marx was not the first Communist, though he essentially defined it) did advocate some forceful response to those nations that worked in league with Capitalists to keep workers under control.

Over time, people took and twisted the ideologies of Karl Marx' Communism into ideologies of pseudo-communism. They took a philosophy of economic liberation and modified it to their own aim.

Lenin misread Marx... Marx had a saying (another coined phrase) "The dictatorship of the proletariat". In context, what Marx clearly meant was that the proletariat should have no dictators, that they should be the dictators of their own destiny. We call this democracy. Lenin made the mistake of believing that Marx meant that the masses would need a dictator to lead them through the stages of socialism and into Communism, when the dictator could step down. There's no evidence to support that Marx would have agreed with that, and considerable proof that he wouldn't have. Even with that, Lenin's system might have worked considering that the single-party system really did solve the problem of partisanship... the flaw in Leninism was the strong dictatorial premier, though.

Stalin, who came to power after Lenin, basically transformed Leninism in the Soviet Union into Stalinism. If Leninism is confused transitional Communism (which is probably giving it more credit than it's due), then Stalinism is anti-Communism. Stalinism focuses on creating social strata to drive nationalism and production. This was the totalitarian opposite of Communism and the Soviet Union grew through the establishment of a statist economy which was probably closer to fascism than it was communism.

Maoism, like Stalinism, is a perversion of Marxism with an Asian twist. If you take the liberation ideology of Marx, mix in a heavy dose of nationalism and totalitarianism, and you get Maoism. As brutal as Mao was, in the context of Chinese politics over the previous three thousand years, he was considered to be progressive.

Why did it spread so far? People want to be free and away from exploitation. Communism gave them an outlet for it.

There has never been a Communist nation on this planet. The people forwarded Communist movements and parties to form governments, but that's not the same thing. No country ever attained a state of Communism, nor were any of them on the right track. When we fought the Soviet Union, we weren't actually fighting Communism (that was rhetoric), we were fighting totalitarianism.

Communism is an ideology and exists all over the place, even if not by name. You can thank Communists of that era for workers rights and civil rights... they were instrumental in winning them.

Answer 8

We were just out of a war. And I believe we were still feeling the war in Korea. In 1945 when Stalin and us beat germany we gave the land that they had taken over to the Russians. Most of our army was ragged and drafted. They deserved to go home.

Answer 9

it was not then or now any of our business.
Communism was started for a good reason to help people but got taken over by the bad people, just like everything else.
We went into Kuwait to protect our arab oil friends, not the people or to protect "justice' in thw rold.