Communism

The Soviet Union was never Communist, it was an example of state capitalism. Communism is a classless stateless society based on production for use.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin killed 1.6 million people for the same reasons Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and all the others like them kill people. Its because their evil, they don't care about others and they want to.

NO. PR China is a Communist Dictatorship. Specifically, it is a LENINIST COMMUNIST STATE. Leninist Communism is the political theory that a single party called the Communist Party rules the government and governs all affairs as opposed to individual politicians. Although the single party in a Leninist Communist State is the Communist Party, the party need not practice Communist political theory. In both China and Vietnam, there is a state-directed, right-wing economic and political theory.

Because if it only works on paper then it doesn't work at all. The mistake is in referring to communism as a theory when every test given this theory fails. A failed theory is a bad theory. Bad theories seek to blame reality in order to survive. Communism is not the problem it is the reality of the current situation that is to blame. If only everybody in reality would change and be more like the non reality of communism then communism could finally work. But, blame is irrelevant and if communism can't offer a system that conforms to reality instead of asking reality to stop being reality. Systems like capitalism embrace the reality of greed where communism aks that everyone stop being so greedy. But, reality being what it is, only the workers get to reject greed while those that "take care" of the workers keep on clinging to greed. Systems like capitalism understand the principles of supply and demand where systems like communism ignore demand and control the supply. Systems like capitalism understand that costs are directly related to prices yet systems like communism seek to control prices regardless of costs. Communism hopes to create a gargantuan state in order to suppress everyone in order to protect them from themselves so they can finally be free and then mysteriously claim that once that "freedom" is finally obtained this gargantuan state will just disappear into a "stateless society." The real question is not why communism fails in practical politics, the question is what practical person could possibly believe such mindless fantasy as communism could ever work?

for the short term yes, communist states can exist with capitalist states, possibly for hundred of years, however if marx is right someday the revolution will be worldwide and capitalism will cease to be the domanate mode of prodution, when that day comes those is unknown and is likly hundreds of years in the future. right know humanities most pressing issue is to stope climate change from becoming out of controll.

He was the third of 6 children.He had 5 brothers and sisters.

Communism itself was not seen as a threat to democracy. Communist dictators who promoted a perverted and corrupted form of the ideology were. Communism is not the antithesis of democracy, but it cannot coexist with capitalism. The perceived threat to democracy was that capitalism would fall to communism and that democracies would come under the rule of authoritarian oppression.

So far, the consensus is that it was one of the Warburg brothers. There were four, two in New York, and two in Germany. One of the New York Warburgs made the plans for the Federal Reserve Bank. And one of the New York Warburgs began the campaign in 1919 to raise money for the six million Jewish victims of World War 1. That's right. WW I. According to the New York Times, Jews were the real victims of this war. Six million of them. One of the German Warburgs during WW I was the head of German Intelligence; and it was his idea to send Lenin into Russia to wreck the country and take it out of WW I. I would love to know more details. It is amazing that no-one has studied the German archives to get to the bottom of this.

Communism divides people into haves (governing), and have nots (workers). It is a highly restrictive form of government that does not promote equality nor liberty as many see or wish it to have. It is a totalitarian doctrine that puts the greater portion of a society into submission for purposes of control ensuring order, but at the cost of creative thought and problem solving. Its cost also include the loss of personal liberty, property ownership, individuality, choice, and freedom of speech. Socialism is a step down, though not much better as it also shares some of the same costs, but is less restrictive than communism.

Other than the nations that were swallowed up by the steam-rolling Soviet war machine during their advance thru Europe and Asia against the Axis powers in 1945; and the Red Chinese revolution of 1949; and possibly some covert third world nations (Cuba, Laos, etc.) that were not strategically important enough for the US to go to war over...the US sponsored REPUBLIC of South Vietnam was the only one.

Vladimir I. Lenin led the Bolshevik Party. At first it had been part of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, a Marxist political party, but it split off from it. In March 1918the Bolshevik Party renamed itself the Communist Party.

The effect that Communism has had upon Russia since the successful 'Revolution of 1917' is difficult to overstate, as it resulted in an entirely new government, social structuring, and values-system for the Russian people. In addition, the rise of the Soviet Union into super-power status after World War II had an additional effect on its people as well as on the world. Despite the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Communism continues to have an effect on Russia as a kind of general inspiration and influence in the current government and social organization.

Vladimir Lenin successfully overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia. This was the government that in March of 1917 forced the Czar to step down from power. Lenin then successfully overthrew the Provisional government that was largely one of democratic leaders and democratic socialists. Lenin imposed a dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party.

The US adopted a policy called 'containment'

Look in your history book

Australia is not a Communist society. We are a mixed economy and feel that if the people have a responsibility to the country, so the country has a responsibility to it people.

Lenin is a follower of Karl Marx, who believed that organized religion was a tool by which the bourgeois upper class kept the lower class proletariat controlled. In Marx's own words religion was the opium of the people. In that sense, both Marx and Lenin saw religion just as an oppressor of the working class as the bourgeoisie itself. Another reason is that they saw religion as imposing upon the lower class a system of belief in that which is not verifiable by logic or the senses. This meant that whoever believes in religion is substituting superstition for reason and allowing others to dictate to the believer what to believe and what not to believe.

No, the Bolshevik Revolution ended in socialism and a poor version of it as well. Communism as Karl Marx saw it could not be imposed on any country, but socialism could. The Russian government was socialist that was run by people who called themselves Communist.

Ridding Europe of what the Nazis called "Jewish Communism" was their #1 core aim. (The brief pact with the Soviet Union in 1939 was purely tactical). In fact, the original party, the DAP, had been established in Janaury 1919 with this specific aim.

They didn't.

The CCCR proceeded with its program of socialism, as it had been doing since WW1, but no other country accepted communism in any form; they remained capitalist.

"Communism," began in late October 1917 (Old Style calendar) during World War 1 after the Bolshevik Revolution. To be more accurate however, this form of government was actually socialism, not communism as Karl Marx saw it. Even the Bolsheviks/Communists understood this distinction at the time.

While Lenin was initially critical of both Trotsky and Stalin, toward the end he began to see Stalin's true ambitions and strongly favored Trotsky over him. Trotsky, (who was by no means an angle) was ruthless but extremely dedicated to communism and sincerely belived in the cause.

Trotsky would probably no do any thing as awful as Stalin did and probably would have entered WWII before stalin. all and all Trotsky's soviet union would probably bear more resembelence to the one envisioned by comrade Lenin.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks wanted to create a socialist society to replace the capitalist one then in effect. It is a common mistake to think that they wanted to create a communist society. That was never their immediate intention. The reason is that following the theories of Karl Marx, communism had to be preceded by socialism which would evolve into communism over several generations. Communism was a form of society that could not be imposed. It had to come about naturally. Virtually all of the revolutionary groups at that time wanted to institute socialism.

What was also a factor was that as per Marx, a developed capitalist economy had to precede a revolution. Russia was never a developed capitalist society.

It also should be noted that the first goal was a dictatorship of the proletariat.

No, Lenin did not achieve world-wide communist revolution.