Communists? PLEASE HELP!?

Question

what is the main point of communists? what are pros of communism? this is for the russian revolution, PLEASE HELP!!

Answer 1

I'm not a communist, far from it. But here is how it works.

Communism reduces everyone to worker ants. Everyone is equal, no one has more then another, etc. Everything is done for the state.

I.E. If you are a doctor, you're paid the same as a laborer. If you are a lazy good for nothing, you get paid the same as the hard worker.

It takes away all incentive, thus society, technology and the state stagnates.

Example: In China in the early 50's they instituted collective farming, (communism) and the farmers were not allowed to profit off their labor. Thus many let their fields go fallow and the result, 60 million starved to death. They then allowed farmers limited capitalism and the harvest went up. The farmers were the first to have limited capitalism. Now they are one huge capitalistic machine.

In the case of the Russian Revolution, the income disparity was so wide that the poor finally got fed up and the revolution happened. Communism seemed a hell of a lot better then being cold and hungry.

One of three things needs to be missing in order for a revolution to happen.

1 lack of food
2 lack of shelter
3 lack of safety

In Russia, it was a combination of all three to varying degree's.

The danger with pure unfettered capitalism is income disparity can become so wide and the ranks of the poor become so high that it finally breeds a Russian type revolution. That is why people like Castro, Mao and Lenin won.

Capitalism needs to have checks and balances to keep the income disparity low. For instance, I believe it is England where the CEO's have a limit to their income. It is based on what the lowest wage earner makes. Also, things like socialism for needed services, such as city and state infrastructure, military, health care, etc help keep income disparity low. Unions are also another powerful tool in the capitalistic check and balance system. Taxes are another avenue, such as higher wages results in higher percentage of taxes.

If the check and balance system is not in place in a capitalistic system, eventually through greed, which seems to be natural with humans, gets so out of balance that it results in a breakdown of society, thus revolutions happen.

Could it happen in the USA? If our economy takes a sharp nose dive, which could happen because our manufacturing is considerably down, and we are not planning for our future in this global economy, but rather focusing on the issues that don't affect the vast majority of us, yes, it could very well happen. Especially if the middle class has been outsourced so much that the best they can do to hang on to their sanity and jobs is put up with marginal wages that barely keep them in their homes and food on the table.

In the USA the revolution may not be in the streets, but rather the ballot box. However, if after a few years of no real change, the people could rise up and take to the streets.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 2

The main point in communism is to create an equal society, where people pretty much get paid the same, instead of a meritocracy. People were considered equal no matter how much they could contribute-the mentally retarded cripple had equal beneifits as the brilliant, well educated, fit people.

If you know anything about economics, look at it this way: capitalistic, democratic countries use the free market system while communistic, socialistic counties use a planned economy, where the government makes the decisions for the economy.
The main problem with communism in the USSR was corruption. When all of the power is in the hands of one person or a few elite, there are bound to be problems with corruption, as is what happened. The leaders turned into dictators, some of whom were not only corrupt, but also brutal. Also, since people got paid equally, some people could get away with not doing their share of work.

In an perfect world, I think communism would be the best thing for humanity, but it just doesn't work in this world. China has made some reforms to it's system of communism, which is why it is more stable of a communist state than the USSR was. I still don't think communism can really work in this world, though. Communism is an ideology that cannot work in this flawed, imperfect world.

Pros: equality, stability (ideally). and also, in the better years of the USSR, the government played an active role in providing beneifits to the people to better the standard of living.

Cons: less individual freedom of choice, planned economy rather than free market, flaws (corruption, poor leader, imperfect world, loopholes, etc.)

I might have listed a lot of beneifits that make it sound like I approve of communism-and, honestly, ideally it does have a lot of beneifits. As an ideology, it may be a good idea. But it can't work for humanity because of human greed and other bad points of human nature-it just breeds so much corruption that the state becomes unstable and collapses.

Answer 3

These are the technical definitions of the systems.

Communism, Socialism and Capitalism are all economic systems.

Communism is the "ownership by the majority of the means of production, distribution and exchange". That means that the everyone own the process of manufacturing then the way it is sent and transported around the country and the way it is sold.

Communism is also where "everyone is paid according to their needs".

Socialism is the transitional period between Capitalism and Communism.
Socialism is also where "everyone is paid according to their worth". That means according to their skills and abilities.

Capitalism is the ownership by a few of the means of production, distribution and exchange. This means that there are a few multi-millionaires while the majority of the population are underpaid etc.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

First off, Communism and Nazism are more opposite than black and white(The person that says otherwise is an idiot). Nazism is actually very fascist while pure communism is a complete democracy.

You have some adequate answers. I'm just going to reference you to:

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/xeng1847.htm#1

and instruct you to read that if you need a truthful answer... rather than listen to dumb, weak-minded ppl that literally THINK they know stuff they have never researched... these ppl's minds have been molded by propaganda.

Answer 6

The idea of pure Communism is that all people are equal no mater how much they can or can not contribute.

in theory it creates a classless society where no one person is better than t he other.

But honestly it does not work in large scale communities. too many people want more in lie so it breeds corruption.

the Russian revolution was created to bring the common man power in society, it actually ended up oppressing them even more.

Answer 7

It's just like Nazism.
But you kill ten times as many people!

Sorry! Twenty times as many people!
Here's another thing about Political Systems:
The followers of a non-Jew (Adolf Hitler) killed
6,000,000 Jews.This was BAD!
The followers of a Jew (Karl Marx) killed
130,000,000 non-Jews. This was GOOD!

Can anyone explain why Adolf gets such a bad press?
Can't we just say:
"Lines will be drawn under"
And
"Steps will be taken"
And
"Lessons will be learned"?
Communism is, of course, the most hypocritical of all political systems:
it preaches ONE thing and practises ANOTHER.
You will notice, of course, that no successful Communist Revolutionary ever returns to his Mud Hut or his Council House once he has installed his political system!
In the UK the entire Government is comprised of Communists. And look at how they have their snouts in the trough!
A Prime Example is John Prescott!
They wheeled him out when they wanted to fool the stupid "Peasants and Workers"
He was always "slagging off" the Rich!
But he couldn't wait to join them. (Croquet Lawn and everything)