Is communism moral, immoral, or amoral?

Answer 1

like everything else philosophical it is an idea open to belief , dispute and modification and is therefore amoral.

Answer 2

In some circles great wealth is considered immoral, so perhaps a communist economic system would be considered moral from that standpoint. In communism, no-one can amass great wealth, it just gets taxed back into the system and redistributed. On the other hand, this makes the entire population government dependent, which is the same as slavery. In this country we have certainly decided that slavery is immoral. Perhaps both great wealth and slavery are immoral, but which is the worst of the two evils?

Answer 3

Communism is an economic system, like Capitalism, and, like Capitalism, some of the arguments supporting it are couched in moral or ethical terms. Unlike Capitalism, though, Communism doesn't work (you can argue that pure communism has never been tried, but the fact that a century of revolution and ardent communist efforts have failed to even implement the system is even more damning than the collapse of the Soviet Union), so whether it's moral or not is rather a moot point.

Answer 4

I think that the ideal of communism is moral---it means the community giving up individual properties and contributing resources for the common good.

Unfortunately the reality was quite different. In practice, it was immoral. It became like any other form of government when the countries wealth was given to the privileged few and the populace became poorer than dirt.

Answer 5

It's none of the above. If you define morality as choosing between right and wrong, you can't lump communism into a neat package. Communism isn't a person, it is a political idea that people live by. Some of the people running government are not moral ( neither are they here) some are. The communism of Russia is not "real" communism anyway - It's more a dictatorship.

Answer 6

It depends on the citizenry.

In true communism (per Marx) the state has withered away and all decisions are made by the people in a decentralized, citizen democracy.

Here's a form of early Christian communism after the Resurrection of Jesus from the Book of Acts.

[ All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need. ] The Holy Bible (NIV) Acts 4:32-35

Were the apostles immoral or the ultimate in morality?

P.S. Here's Marx on the same issue; "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" - Karl Marx, "Critique of the Gotha Program" (1875).

Answer 7

That's a tough question because it depends on what you mean by communism. If you're talking about Soviet communism, then it's quite immoral. The Soviets were oppressive dictators and took away people's basic rights.

The idea of everybody getting paid the same amount of money for doing different jobs and the government owning everything isn't an appealing idea to me, but I don't think it's a moral issue.

Answer 8

Russian Communism was immoral. Communism in and of its-self is a system of government, it has no morals, so it is amoral.

Answer 9

none of the above

the ideas that communism brings out are good (most people don't know anything about communism and treat it like a dirty word.
the basic principal says equal everything for everybody regardless of skill set etc.

problem is: NO human can possibly fulfill this as someone always fills they deserve more than someone else - so corruption and dictatorships rise (the nature of man is the problem)

italy was communist and still has communist meetings
eastern europe was born and raised on communism and the educational systems then were stellar

Answer 10

none of the above. People who force communism on freedom loving capitalists are immoral.

Answer 11

It saddens me that someone who actually lives in this country could ask a question like this. Communism has failed everywhere its been tried. Do you like equality? The only equality under communism is EQUAL SUFFERING! In a self governing capitalist system like ours equality exist only in that your condition is EQUAL to your effort and work ethic. I suspect that your problem with our system is that you want more than you have but are not willing to work for it, you want something for nothing. What you don't realize is the great opportunity we have, although you don't get anything for nothing in America, you do have endless opportunity if you will just dream it and then WORK for it. Under communism you can work all you want and the fruit of your labor will just be taken and redistributed to those who are less ambitious.

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -Ronald Reagan