what is communism?

Question

i need it explained in simple terms please becasue i really don't understand
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Answer 1

Pure Communism is the idea that all people are provided for equally no mater how much or how little they contribute to the society as a whole.

every one has an equal stake, no one is above or below anyone else.

however in practice it is not tenable in a large scale society, Communism tat is practiced in Cuba and China and at on time in The Soviet Union is not true communism since there is still an elite ruling class and they participate in capitalist markets.

Answer 2

Communism is an utopia - a dream society, described by German philosophers Marx and Engles and characterized by:
- common ownership of the means of production, which results in ultimate social equality (because no-one has more than anyone else)
- a system of distribution of goods based on the principle: "everyone contributes according to their abilities, everyone consumes according to their need." Money is not needed any more because everyone takes freely what they want without a fear of shortages
- a high tech society, which guarantees unlimited production of everydaylife goods. Hard manual/physical labor does not exist, almost everything is made by robots. This leaves people the chance to learn and create art for their own and other people's pleasure.
- values, based on the idea of mutual help and thought about you fellow citizen. No God. All people behave in a way as to make life ''Paradize on Earth''. Religious wars become irrelevant.
- loose social structure - families disappear. Society takes care of all children and induviduals do not have to stay together to raise their kids or share expenses. Individuals are free to live with or without a partner, or with several partners -for men and women, as they choose.
- a global society - boundaries disappear, as ownership or management of land/resources is no longer valid. (Therefore communism can only happen when all the countries in the world have reached a high level of economic development).

You can see why many intellectuals were tempted by the idea. At least initially those who created the ''Communist countries'' were trying ''to make the future happen'' as soon as possible. They created the notion of ''socialism'' as a ''step to communism''. The ''socialist'' and the ''communist'' societies are different. And Lenin created the theory that communism can be achieved prematurely through revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat - the workers'.
So, in reality, there was and is no such thing as a communist country. This is a way to term a country, which has officially declared the communist ideology as its underlying principle. Needles to say the declarations usually have little in common with the actual state of things.

Answer 3

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“From each, according to his ability, to each according to his need.” This is one of the phrases that crystallize the meaning of communism. It isn’t easy to get an unbiased definition of communism, but one of the better ones describes it as socialism that abolishes private ownership and seeks to create a classless society.

Communism has been a major historical theme since the Bolshevik Revolution of Russia in 1917. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels popularized the communist ideology in their 1848 work, Communist Manifesto. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Bolshevik Party, was inspired by this work and eventually became the first Communist ruler of Russia.

Communism sounds like a good idea. In the purest form of communism, all people hold all land, factories and so on in trust, as it were. In this way, all goods are shared equally by the people. There is no poverty — nor is there an upper class. In the Depression-era America of the 1930s, many people joined the Communist Party because it seemed to be sympathetic to the needs and desires of the worker, rather than to the bosses.

Unfortunately, communism in practice tends to be somewhat different, as those who have lived in the 20th century know. Communism as practiced by Lenin, Stalin and Chairman Mao is an entirely different proposition. This kind of communism sets up an authoritarian government, with the best goods and services going to those in government.

It was not uncommon in Soviet Russia for people to vie for government jobs — not because they were such fans of communism, but because they got a larger apartment. Capitalists gripe about corruption, but communist governments are just as rife with it as capitalist systems. Government members tend to rationalize that they deserve the best of everything because they are governing for the people.

Another problem with political communism is that governments tend to focus on “production” as the ultimate goal. Production is usually defined as that which comes from factories and farms. As a result, the arts may suffer under a communist regime. This was certainly true for years in China, when Chairman Mao instituted the “cultural revolution.” Since these governments tend to become insular and paranoid, they also usually form a secret police force to quash any hint of revolution by the people.

Communism would probably function well if humans didn’t have the unfortunate tendency toward greed. Some argue that if everyone had the same, no one would want more. This, of course, has been proven to be a fallacy over and over again. If there are no goals to achieve, and nothing to work toward except a production quota, where is the incentive to excel? Capitalism is not a perfect system either. It just functions better in the face of human greed than other systems do, as it offers the carrot of financial gain for hard work.

Answer 4

Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production.

Basically, the State tries to treat everyone the same. In Western civilization, we know that there is the Working Class, the Middle and Upper class. Under Communism, everyone is the same, except for, of course, the leaders of the government and their friends. It is widely seen as a bad method of governing a country, since when everyone is at an equal level and class, it tends to be quite low - meaning everyone is poor.

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Answer 5

It cannot be explained in simple terms. In fact there is not a single notion on what communism is.
It is generally understood that it is a political/ecanomical/philosophical system whereby the governing of a country is done collectivelly. There is no private property and really no money. Everything is provided from the collective-state and every one works for the collective-state.

Answer 6

Communism is a system whereby each member of the commune (community) contributes what they can and takes what they need. Ego and other contaminants have twisted most communist systems as the elites have gradually tried to secure more or better conditions for themselves and their families, while cheating the community or offering less than they might othertwise.

Capitalism is a system whereby each member of the society takes more than they give, by definition calling that "profit". It is a way that everyone may "cheat" each other. It costs me a dime but I charge you 15 cents. That nickel is what I live on in Capitalism.

Both are failures because of human nature and the propensity of human beings to lie to each other and scratch for more - greed and fear at work, at home, at leisure and in production. The hunger for more has built and destroyed every civilization that humans have devised....

... and we are not finished yet.

Answer 7

It's something some actors in Hollywood want us to have. It's a system of government in which the government decides everything for you, to include jobs and wages. Communists claim that the ideals of communism make sure everyone is taken care of, but the smart people soon realize that they get paid the same whether they work or not, so nothing ever gets done.

Answer 8

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
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Answer 9

In simple terms it's the doctrine that all goods, means of production etc. should be the property of the community

Answer 10

Here is your lesson. Watch Venezuela. Chavez has taken it from a Constitutional Democracy to a dictatorship and is gradually taking private property and corporations and making them the property of the state. Soon it will be illegal to own property and any candidate that runs against him will be assassinated. You will see inflation go out of sight and the total of the oil revenues going all to him and his cronies.