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Who here can actually define communism?
Please, go for it. I'm curious to see whether people actually know what it is.
American Nationalist, good answer, but I disagree with you on the point that it could not work in a country as a whole. In the final stage of communism, there IS no country/state.
Kim, correct :)! So many people think of communism as this evil, scary totalitarian piece of trash. I guess that's what years of Stalin and the various leaders of North Korea portray it as.
338 Edge, that seems to be a debatable point to me. The world has never seen full-fledged communism; we've seen totalitarian garbage, which is why I don't really understand why so many people still follow those schools of thought. Many people follow their passions to their jobs, so they may have even greater output than a capitalist society without authority breathing down their necks. Anyway, in my opinion, capitalism will eventually fall due to the rapid expansion of technology replacing jobs. We're quickly moving into a mechanized society.
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- 338 edgeLv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
All property is owned by everyone equaly. Every person is supposed to supply the community with their labor and get what they need from the product of the groups labor.
The problem is you don't get more if you make more so why work hard. Thus the community is not as sucessful as a merit based system. Everyone is equal but everyone is equally poor.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Well, there are multiple communist schools of thought, and I can't say I've very intensively studied any of them in particular.
But, broadly speaking, I would say that communism is the belief that capitalist societies should (or inevitably will) transition to a stateless, collectivist society, in which every individual contributes according to his abilities and receives according to his needs.
Edit: Frankly, communism does scare me! But I think that if you're going to be scared, you ought to know just what you're scared of.
- Anonymous8 years ago
An ideal based on common ownership and communes their happy something that would work in communities but not in a country in whole.
Used to be a socialist by the way.
