Communism

My short and indirect answer is this- I believe the world is fortunate that Communism has been in control of China for so long. They are an enterprising and intelligent people. Their drive for gain is unequaled. Just imagine a resourseful ,Democratic and determined nation of 1.4 billion, with each individual given capitalist freedom.

The communist government there is slowly pulling the stops out -with a free market economy. We are seeing the results now, the controls can't stay in place much longer. The Chinese are buying into foreign mining companies and buying up huge mineral leases in a scale that's hard to describe.

There are 350 million middle class there and they traditionally like to show their wealth in Gold. The government has recently lifted the possession limit from 3 ounces to unlimited. Watch out world!

Corruption, In a system where the final word is that of the party corruption is rife, the communist party exists by force of arms and in time this may lead to a mellowing in the system where it becomes a socialist system that treats the citizens of the country equally. If it were a totally capitalistic system the poorest would definitely be left to rot.

outspread communism to other countries

He was a bad leader according to peasants. He was also a bad leader among Marxist Leninists. Stalin took care of the Marxists and anyone who threatened his power by executing them. By the end of the 1930's he killed over 30,000 Marxists and/or people he feared within the Soviet Union. They feared of him taking over Europe. Joseph Stalin was the one (along with government) that decided to put up the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain was a border line separating East and West Germany. Peasants were not aloud to cross it because Government didn't want Eastern Germany to see the many rights that other countries had.

Americans were effected by communism. At this time there was something called the Blacklist, where they would put the names of famous people that where believed to be communist or spys for the Russians. At this time Americans also feared bombing. They would have weekly bomb drills where they would duck and cover. Also with all of the disagremments between the USA and the USSR, they where afraid that nuclear war would break out.

Khrushchev is the one who declared that communism for the Soviet Union would improve his nation's standard of living. He did this while calling for the peaceful co-existence of the western powers.

All non-communist nations! The whole point of the war, militarily, was to stop Communism from spreading. Although we lost North Vietnam at the bargaining table after a great military victory (bombing North Vietnam into rubble and making them interested in talking), the cost of the cold war, the Vietnam war and supporting dictators, terrorism and murder world-wide, broke the financial back of the Soviet Union. A great victory for us. One that has stopped Communism for now and converted many former enemies into potential allies.

A short composition outlining why communism is the solution to the misery of the working class.

The choice between a capitalist or communist nation depends on individual values and priorities. Capitalism often promotes economic freedom, innovation, and personal choice, but can lead to income inequality and social disparities. Conversely, communism aims for equal distribution of resources but may limit personal freedoms and stifle economic motivation. Ultimately, the ideal system might incorporate elements from both to balance economic efficiency with social equity.

capitalism would lead first to socialism then to communism

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Stalin scrapped Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) in favor of his own Five Year Plans.

Stalin and other hardline Marxist/Communists felt that Lenin's NEP was a retreat from the move from capitalism to socialism and were angered over it. The NEP was kept in place by Stalin and his co-rulers after Lenin's death until 1929 when Stalin had eliminated his opposition and became the sole power in the Soviet Union. That is when he replaced the NEP with his own program for economic recovery.

The ultimate victory of Lenin's Bolsheviks in Russia can be attributed to two distinct factors: First, the Communist leaders and ideas were both tremendously energetic, new, and captivating to Russian (and to some extent global) society. Second, Russian society was generally impoverished by its imperial leadership: resentments reached a boiling point just as Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries began to act in earnest.

Lenin's personality is not as prominent as many other historical figures. (Such as Stalin for example).

Lenin was a closed, reserved man. However, noticeable traits include his determination, high self confidence, and extreme focus. It can be said that Lenin showed an obsession with revolution and hatred of authority.

Many of his traits were also his weaknesses. His determination can be seen as obsession, his self confidence as arrogance, his focus can be seen as tunnel vision. In many ways Lenin's traits led him to many mistakes, however, also led him to many successes.

As I said, its not easy describing Lenin's personality, as in many ways his actions support some of his traits, yet conflict with others.

Lenin was influenced by the works of Karl Marx, Nicholas (Nicholay) Chemyshevsky and his older brother Alexander who was a socialist activist.

Stalin seemed to have just agreed with the communist ideals.

He was a classical communist by what he considered values and his ideas on running a country so naturally he would choose the communist party.

Joseph Stalin "became a communist" because as a child he watched the changing economic climate go from individual artisan to mass production. His father was a cobbler by trade with his own business, but a shoe factory was built and it put him out of business. He even had to take a job there for awhile, but didn't hold it and became a drunkard later abandoning the family. So Stalin had first hand knowledge of how the industrialization that capitalism brought with it could destroy people's lives just as Karl Marx said it would. Stalin then turned to the teachings of Karl Marx, found them agreeable and became a believer in socialism and communism.

Stalin was absolutely not a "classical communist." Marxian communism was supposed to work to the advantage of the workers and peasants. Under Stalin, they suffered more than they had at any time under Tsarist rule. Under Marx's version of socialism, the workers were supposed to be the owners and controllers of the means of production, but under Stalin the government owned and controlled everything. The workers and peasants had nothing.

Mikhail Gorbachev

He targeted and attacked various people. - nova net

Vladimir Lenin himself had wanted Trotsky to become his successor, mostly because he feared that Joseph Stalin had an "evil soul". After Lenin's death, it was a face-off between Leon Trotsky & Stalin. It seemed as if Trotsky would win because of his closer ties with Lenin. However, by manipulating Trotsky, Stalin managed to turn the people in the Communist party to dislike him. He stated that there were differences in their beliefs in Communism; one wanted a revolution across the world and the other believed in a revolution only within the Soviet Union. By deeming Trotsky's ideals as wrong and stray from the path of Lenin's, Stalin managed to have Troysky exiled to Mexico. There, he was killed by an assassin supposedly appointed by Stalin himself.

He would use force to get his own views across to the public using Cheka. This also led him to fall out with his old friends such as Georgi Plekhanov and Yuli Martov. This also meant he went to war with his most loyal supporters, the Kronstadt Sailors. He was also responsible for the economic problems that he put Russia into. Russia took such a pounding economically, because of World War I that Lenin forced Trotsky to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

The first emperor was a hero and villain, he has done equal amount of things to make him a hero and villain. Like for a hero, he has built the great wall to protect his country, but, he has treated lots of people badly to build the great wall for him. He was the first emperor of china, he was the first one that overpowered 6 warring states. to me, he was both.

Certainly the more nationalist parties (like Hitler's Nazi party) would have a fear of communism as their policies usually hurt them and their supporters. Right-winged parties are generally supported by the landowners and company owners, the military and the upper-class citizens of a society. Communism believes in giving more to the workers and peasants in a society, and commonly they will split up land from landowners and give it to the peasants and will usually give more to the common worker at the cost of the company owners. Yet, even though the Nazi party was nationalistic, the danger of communism was actually much lesser than the fear of it that had spread through Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany used the fear of communism to increase their own popularity. I don't think Hitler actually "feared" communism in a conventional sense, but he needed to downplay the Socialist Party and the Communist Party in Germany as they had the second and third largest portions of the German parliament, the Reichstag, with the Nazi Party (Hitler's party) having the largest portion.

A party's representation in the Reichstag was decided through proportional representation, where the ratio of districts that vote for a certain party equivalates to the portion of the Reichstag that is comprised of that party's members. Thus, if any party controlled over 50% of the votes, they would control the Reichstag completely. Hitler's aims were to have the Nazi party's popularity to exceed this ratio so he could completely take over the government.

Hitler's propaganda used to spread a "Red Scare" (fear of communism) was fairly successful. One of the strongest examples of Hitler's anti-communism propaganda was the Reichstag fire in 1933, where the Reichstag building was set on fire by someone who was never identified. However, Hitler put a spin on this by saying that the the fire was caused by a communist, and the fire was an attempt by the Communist party to take over Germany. Fear of communism spread through the general German population which helped the Nazi party in the Reichstag election a month after the fire. Hitler also used the scare to convince Hindenburg (the German president at the time) to declare a "state of emergency" in Germany in March 1933, where the Reichstag lost all of its power for a set time and the President had complete power. As Chancellor of Germany, Hitler could use this to consolidate his power and by 1934 he had turned the democratic Weimar Germany into a dictatorship.

Lenin believed pure communism could not be achieved immediately. What he began instead was the "New Economic Policy". He believed this would put Russia on the road to pure communism over time. He also sought cooperation from other nations in order to bring the desired economic state about.

The theory of communism was developed in Germany by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels; based in part on social theories from Plato.

However it was in Russia that communists first took power in a country and attempted to govern a nation by communist theory.

yes my friend the rich people Americans feed people like me lies to say it bad. I live in America i hate every second of it, people like that guy go by what they here it a good strong government it just rich captilist say it bad.