Communism

Communism is the vision of Karl Marx, a famous German economist and writer. Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, outlined the principles of communism in their seminal work, "The Communist Manifesto."

There is a salute that has been associated with communism and therefore can be recognized as a communist salute. The 'Raised Fist' Salute is often connected with communism. To do it, one simply raises there closed fist to roughly the height of their head.

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Karl Marx is known as the father of communism. Communist beliefs are also known as Marxist beliefs. Communism is an ideal society in which everything is shared throughout a community (thus, communism). The country must be industrial because the "have nots" must have access to money, all resources are split up evenly among the community so that the community is equal. There are no rich or poor.

The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. The Manifesto was published in 1848, written in many different languages. The Manifesto is mainly an outline of communism. Several times, the Manifesto clearly states "Communism is feared all across Europe but never understood." This is true. Communists are still feared today and not understood. They believe in this perfect society which looks good on paper but frankly- some are too willing to have it so they do things they should not. But this can come with any political belief, and Communism is stereotyped as a terrible thing as soon as the word is uttered.

To sum up before this gets into too much detail, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx is important because it is the only written record that defines a single political belief in perfect detail. --> Edit: More specifically, he details the ideologies of it, but not so much how it should be specifically implemented.

He believed that the proletariat (the masses) would seize control of the means of production. This belief, according to Marx is indisputable and scientific. It is a process, according to Marx, that cannot be altered based on his studies in human history and practical economics. Marx did not take into account true human history. Class struggle is not the only means by which history develops.

1. a member of the Communist party or movement.

2. an advocate of communism.

3. a person who is regarded as supporting politically leftist or subversive causes.

4. a Communard.

5. of or pertaining to the Communist party or to Communism.

6. pertaining to communists or communism.

Communism is a socio-economic system where the means of production are owned and controlled by the community as a whole, rather than by individual owners. It aims for a classless society where resources are distributed based on need, not profit.

Marx developed the concept of a communist economic system where the means of production are owned collectively by the workers rather than by private individuals or corporations. In this system, there would be no private property and goods and services would be distributed based on need rather than profit.

Communism would create a society with no social classes.

Most people committed suicide which caused Cuba's population to go down. A lot of them were woman which also made the reproduction levels decrease. Men were desperate for sexual intercourse so they went to other countries as prostitute's and sexually transmitted diseases eg. herpes, aids, crabs etc. became more common.

According to Karl Marx under true communism the means of production will be not so much owned by the people as simply administered by them without the vestiges of private ownership of property. The state will not own property under communism, because the state, as well as class differences, will wither and die. The state will not be overthrown; it will vanish. The state will own the means of production during the socialist phase of history leading up to true communism.

George Orwell was critical of communism, which he believed resulted in totalitarian regimes and the suppression of individual freedom. His books "Animal Farm" and "1984" are often seen as critiques of authoritarian states like the Soviet Union, using allegory and dystopian themes to highlight the dangers of centralized power. Orwell himself fought in the Spanish Civil War against the communist forces, further illustrating his opposition to the ideology.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels predicted that one day countries would overthrow all governments and share equally. This was the building block for Russian rebels opposed to the Czar.

"Communism" goes back to primitive times when people lived in small groups or tribes. No one one owned any particular part of the land the tribe occupied. It was owned by the tribe and everyone worked the land and the produce was divided among the members of the tribe. Marx called this type of communism "primitive communism" and stated that it occurs at the "dawn of history of all civilized races."

Two countries that were lost to communism after World War II were Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Czechoslovakia fell under communist control in 1948 after a communist coup, and Hungary became a communist state following a Soviet-backed government takeover in 1949.

President Kennedy sent special forces troops, known as Green Berets, to advise and train South Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War. These troops were sent to help the South Vietnamese government and military fight against communist forces in order to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.

After the 1917 Communist revolution in Russia, many Americans began to fear communism and the threat it posed against the American republic and society. Out of fear and suspicion, the Americans became hostile and wary of immigrant populations.The US Attorney General, Michael Palmer played a great part in increasing this fear, as he was convinced that is was likely a communist revolution could happen in America unless the country was purged of the "foreign born subversives and agitators". However, it is thought, that he was using his power and status to get back at anarchists, who made an attempt on their life in 1919.Purges began on January 1st 1920 after which, 6000 "aliens" or suspected communists were rounded up by the Justice Department and were either imprisoned or expelled from the US, This irrational fear heightened even more after an explosion of an anarchist bomb in Wall Street in September in 1920 where 38 people were killed. This had a huge impact on the justice system for immigrants, and many were refused a fair trail purely for being suspected anarchists, they were also some cases who were denied their basic human rights such as the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and known anarchists who were sentenced to death on circumstantial evidence for robbery.

No, he believed that it would taken a long time to convert Russia into a fully Communist country, He believed to take Russia to communism you would have to go though Socialism where the government would take control of all of the market and then, over a long period of time the governments powers would fall and eventually their would cease to be a government and the people would then fully take over.

Yes. Cuba remains a Communist country embodying many socialist ideals. Admittedly, it does not rise to the kind of dictatorship of the proletariat that Marx envisioned, but it is the closest to it of any regime in history. However, most regimes, like China or Vietnam, that are still run by Communist Parties are effectively Leninist Capitalist states. No country that is not currently communist is considering changing to a communist system; it is effectively a moribund political philosophy.

At the bottom line, the answer was no. McCarthy was paranoid about Communists, and thought they were coming out of the woodwork everywhere you turned. If you are familiar with mining for gold, where several tons (six to eight thousand pounds) of rock are mined to produce one ounce of gold, that was about McCarthy's batting average at outing Communists. The number of lives and careers he destroyed before he was stopped runs into the hundreds, if not more.

The deployment of security forces, implementation of counterinsurgency operations, enhancing intelligence and surveillance capabilities, improving governance and socio-economic development, and winning the hearts and minds of the local population.

The Truman Doctrine promised support to any nation battling communism.

Both ideologies were used to support totalitarian regimes.

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Communism has not fallen. The Soviet Union fell in 1991, but "communism" such as it is in the real world, is still alive in other countries. Karl Marx would disagree that his brand of communism is alive, (and it isn't) but Marx was a difficult guy to get along with.

No he did not begin communism. Communism existed in tribal communities where the community was small and tribal like. The tribe worked together and no one member owned any piece of land the tribe happened to be living on at the time.

Marx simply theorized that communism worldwide was an inevitable event brought about by the forces of capitalism. Although many governments, including Russia after the revolutions called themselves "communist'" there has never been a country that was communist in the true Marxian sense of communism. In that sense in modern day, communism never has begun.

Communism was published as a scientific philosophy by Karl Marx. The baic idea that society should be run for the good of the entire community rather than by individuals out for their own profit had been around. In fact Marx first joined a political party called the Communist League before he wrote "The Communist Manifesto."

All those who have to work for wages, i.e. have to sell their labour power to an employer in return for a wage.