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Communism
Communism is a political philosophy that is defined by a classless society in which all goods and property are collectively owned. Some current communist countries include China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
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When did the us try to stop of communism?
If the US didn't try to stop communism, there wouldn't have been a Cold War. That's what the Cold War was: a non-shooting war between the communists and the free world. It began with Truman's Marshall Plan at the end of World War II, which was intended to help rebuild European countries' economies and also ensure that they would be capitalist and not communist. The Korean War and the Vietnam War continued the U.S.'s intention of stopping communism on a much larger scale, of course.
Are there class societies in communism?
We must first delineate between Communism as Marx formulated it and Communism in Practice.
In Marxian Communism, there should be a classless society where people only possess personally what they need to survive and all major assets and capital are communally owned.
In Communism in Practice, there is a clear class distinction between Party Members and Common Citizens, where Party Members have increased permissions in terms of places where they can live and job posts in which they can work. Also, a degree of nepotism develops in most Communist countries, creating an effective nobility.
What are the differences between democracy and communism?
democracy at persent has become a way of life as no other form of govt. gives the individuals this much rights, liberty to grow, freedom and so many other rights. It is the govt. of the majority but with minority rights. It promotes both individual as well as collective rights.
Communism stands for the common use and sacrifice the ind. liberty and freedom. there is scope of supression of the rights of the individual.
Why did China adopt Communism in 1949 and what were the events?
Many Chinese studied abroad. Mao studied in Paris where he was introduced to Communist ideology. Once Chinese Communists organized in China, they began receiving aid and advisers from the U.S.S.R.
The two countries had the capability to make nuclear weapons.
Is colombia a communism country?
No, They are a strong US ally and follow a strict free market policy
To call any non-communist "fascist"...to enslave a country by any means necessary,including force and even if the majority of the people in that country don't want communism,to make inner party members live like playboy millionaires on the back of a nation,to make everyone live an unhappy and unfulfilled life,even preventing them to own any kind of private propriety,to make people do,tell and think only what the single party commands,to make everyone(except inner party members) be equally poor and damaged in life,to put in gulags and extermination camps everybody that speaks their mind,to assassinate people from that country that fled and speak their mind in the international press,to destroy any trace capitalist economy(which is the most natural type of economy and it's self-balancing),to steal the private propriety and lands of every man and to impose strict 5 year plan(which was often falsified; results of such policies in agricultural productivity is relevant, the Russian empire produced much more the grain production of a high-tech communist cooperative style USSR agriculture) and so ruining the economic development of the country... and to export communism to other countries aka "liberate them from fascists"(don't forget that the Berlin wall was called "the anti-fascist protection barrier").
What is the definition of Democratic communism?
Essentially communism is not democratic. A democracy is a government where the people make the decisions about the government, but in communism the government has no input from the people it governs. Instead they are told how to live, what to say/not say, and if they protest they are arrested/killed. So, to answer your question this does not exist since they are opposite theories in government.
This phrase sometimes comes up in the context of the naming of certain Communist countries, which have a tendency to style themselves "The Democratic People's Republic of ..." It's nothing more than a cynical ploy to attach some legitimacy of popular government to what, in almost all cases, is barely even Communist, and usually a totalitarian dictatorship masquarading as a popularly-supported (hence "Democratic") Communist government. Good examples here are: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (AKA North Korea), The Democratic Republic of the Congo (AKA Zaire), and the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Absolutley not. Communism is the farthest thing from a sin and anyone who thinks that is a retard. Communism is a great idea but it is just very hard to maintain. When people hear the word communism they just think its bad because Russia was under communist rule during the Cold War but that is just typical American ignorance. It is a great idea and the only reason it has failed is because of human flaw not because communism is a bad idea. It could work but humans are just arrogant, lazy, backstabbing species.
What Eastern European nations were under communist control?
The Communist nations of Eastern Europe in the Warsaw Pact were: Russia, Poland, East Germany (DDR), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Additionally, Yugoslavia and Albania were Eastern European countries with Communist governments that were not in league with Moscow. (Yugoslavia helped to form the Non-Aligned Movement and actively sought good relations with both Western and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, Albania took the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet split and broke off strong relations with Moscow.)
What was the label for the postwar period when many Americans feared a bolshevik revolution?
They called that period the Red Scare. There was a second red scare in the 1950s.
Why are communism and fascism considered at opposite ends of the political s pectrum?
The reason is because the political systems of government can be looked at based on power and wealth distribution and the populace of a nation and measured by the wealth gap of citizens. The spectrum can be looked at like this.
Fascism - power = power (force/military/police state) (Nazi Germany)
Capitalism - money = power (rich rule) (really what the US is today)
Republic - majority = power, however minority rights are protected through a bill of rights all citizens have in order to protect them from an oppressive minority (religious freedom for example), and wealth distribution is not strongly governed however there is a basic infrastructure in place to allow motivated citizens to excel. (What the US Constitution attempted to establish)
Socialism - majority = power, however the rights of citizens are more progressively controlled through the system in order to ensure that all citizens are afforded equal opportunity regardless of how wealthy they are born (infrastructure, education including college, medicine, living wage for students, etc... is paid for by collective taxation). (France, Canada, Holland, Sweden, etc..etc.. most civilized democracies)
Marxism - ruling class = power, wealth is distributed in order to have society work as a single unit, greatly reducing the wealth gap, information is controlled.
Communism - ruling class = power, however the government's job is to ensure that wealth distribution gives equality to all citizens regardless of skill, all citizens are equal (in "ideal" communism).
In this respect, fascism is force of the ruling class, and the bulk of the nations wealth is in the hands of a very small % of citizens. On the opposite end of the spectrum communism's goal is to eliminate any wealth gap (or even a need for money, food is often evenly rationed, housing is provided by the government, citizens are assigned jobs, etc...). There is also the concept of individualism at the fascist/capitalist end where a citizen born into privilege will simply excel, and a poor citizen will die in a gutter without support. The systems range from selfish to selfless in respect to individualism.
It soon became apparent that socialist revolutions in western Europe were not going to erupt and help support Lenin's "experiments" in creating a workers dictatorship within the USSR.Nowhere in Marxist thought was it predicted that Marxists would fall away from a Marxist revolution.
Push-back could be expected from the bourgeoisie, capitalist leaders, imperialists, but not from other Marxists.
The problems that Lenin had to deal with were problems he himself had created. The workers of powerful trade unions did not carry out a revolution against a capitalist-bourgeoisie regime. The Bolsheviks leaped over standard Marxist teachings and deposed an undeveloped capitalist regime. The revolution was led by Marxist revisionists that were soon to call themselves Marxist-Leninists.
Lenin and Trotsky were intellectuals. They were not powerful trade union 'bosses".
Lenin's response to the Western Left was to basically say that he and his followers could not be expected to be bound by any laws or democratic protocols.
Lenin took to writing about his methods. He redefined his dictatorship with great bluntness claiming that his power rested on extreme coercion. He overlooked his intellectual role and claimed that the "proletariat revolution" would and could not take any "prisoners". Western socialists needed to be reminded that no class ever voluntarily gave up its own power.
The problem was that he could not define exactly whom his opposition consisted of. If he did than the true answer was that the opposition was the workers and left wing communists.
Stalin would later use Lenin's arguments to justify the great purges against his own party.
The cults of personality were being developed in the USSR and included Lenin and Stalin. Mussolini in Italy and later Hitler in Germany.
They were "classes" within themselves and opposition was treason.
What does Anti -Communism mean?
Anti-communism simply means against communism. An example of an economic society that is anti-communist is capitalism.
How was Maos vision of communism different from that of lenin?
Mao's view of Communism was much more like Marx's while Lenin changed different aspects of Marx's theories.
Fidel Castro began communism in Cuba because he overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulegenico Batista.
What is the antidote for world communism?
Any other form of government, anarchy or the death of everyone involved in the country/countries that conform to communism.
The theory behind Communism is supposed to end inequality.
Communism thus far has fail in my opinion due to there reasons;
1) People are naturally greedy
2) A communist state has never existed solely without the temptation of the free world where people earn ridiculous amounts of money
3) Power corrupts - the leaders of the state tend to feather there own nests not doing what the revolution intended
What has to be used to create a communist society?
Force has to be used to create a communist society
What did Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer do about Communism in America?
Radical inequality meant that labor and political tensions were already high before the beginning of World War I, with government repression of radical left-wing political groups beginning even before American entry into the war. But after a series of labor conflicts and violence - including bomb attacks of court buildings, police stations, churches, and homes of government officials attributed by the authorities to violent immigrant anarchist groups - the Department of Justice and its small Bureau of Investigation (BOI) (predecessor to the FBI) had begun to track their activities with the approval of President Woodrow Wilson.
In 1916, Wilson warned of:Hyphenated Americans (who) have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy must be crushed out.[1]
(See the article Hyphenated American for an explanation of the concept.) The Bureau of Investigation significantly increased its workload on anarchist movements after 1917 when the Galleanists (followers of Luigi Galleani) and other radical groups commenced a new series of bomb attacks in several major American cities.[2][3][4][5] The Russian Revolution of 1917 was also a background factor: many anarchists believed that the worker's revolution there would quickly spread across Europe and the United States. This idea terrified the wealthy.
On June 15, 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act. The law set punishments for actions interpreted as acts of interference in foreign policy and espionage - including many activities that would be seen by contemporary standards as dissent, such as the publication of magazines critical of the government. The act authorized stiff fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who obstructed the military draft or encouraged "disloyalty" against the U.S. government. After two anarchist radicals, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, continued to advocate against conscription, Goldman's offices at Mother Earth were thoroughly searched, and volumes of files and detailed subscription lists from Mother Earth, along with Berkman's journal The Blast, were seized. As a Justice Department news release reported:A wagon load of anarchist records and propaganda material was seized, and included in the lot is what is believed to be a complete registry of anarchy's friends in the United States. A splendidly kept card index was found, which the Federal agents believe will greatly simplify their task of identifying persons mentioned in the various record books and papers. The subscription lists of Mother Earth and The Blast, which contained around 10,000 names, were also seized.
Congress also passed a series of immigration, anti-anarchist, and sedition acts (including the Sedition Act of 1918 and the Anarchist Exclusion Act) that sought to either criminalize or punish (through deportation) advocacy of the violent overthrow of the government or desertion from the armed forces, defiance of the draft, or membership in anarchist or revolutionary organizations.
In 1919, the U.S. House of Representatives refused to seat Socialist representative Victor L. Berger from Wisconsin because of his socialism, German ancestry, and anti-war views.
On June 2, 1919, several bombs were detonated by Galleanist anarchists in eight American cities, including one in Washington, D.C., that damaged the home of newly appointed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. The same bomb detonated near Franklin Roosevelt who lived across the street and was walking home with his wife. Palmer was badly shaken up (the bomber, Carlo Valdonoci, was killed by the bomb, which exploded prematurely).[6] All of the bombs were delivered with a flyer reading:War, Class war, and you were the first to wage it under the cover of the powerful institutions you call order, in the darkness of your laws. There will have to be bloodshed; we will not dodge; there will have to be murder: we will kill, because it is necessary; there will have to be destruction; we will destroy to rid the world of your tyrannical institutions.[7]
Palmer, twice the intended victim of assassination, had a personal as well as public motivation to win the battle against the radical left and those preaching violence. [8] After his close calls at the hands of the Galleanists, he appears to have grouped all those identified with the radical left as enemies of the United States. He stated his belief that Communism was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman," and that socialists were responsible for most of the country's social problems.
Calls from a less-than-impartial press and a worried public quickly escalated for the federal government to take action against those perpetrating the violence. Pressure to take action intensified after anarchists, communists and other radical groups called on draft-age males to refuse conscription and/or registration for the army, and for troops already serving to desert the armed forces. President Wilson ordered Attorney General Palmer to take action.
At the time, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Luigi Galleani were in the forefront of the anti-conscription movement. Valdonoci, the Palmer house bomber, was later identified as a militant follower of Luigi Galleani. Attorney General Palmer requested and received a massive supplementary increase in Congressional appropriations in order to put a stop to the violence. Palmer then ordered the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Investigation to prepare for what would become known as the Palmer Raids.
[edit] RaidsIn 1919, J. Edgar Hoover was put in charge of a new division of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, the General Intelligence Division. By October 1919, Hoover's division had collected 150,000 names in a rapidly expanding index. Using this information, starting on November 7, 1919, BOI agents, together with local police, orchestrated a series of well-publicized and violent raids against suspected "radicals" and foreigners, using the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. Palmer and his agents were accused of using torture and other illegal methods of obtaining intelligence, including informers and wiretaps.Victor L. Berger was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a charge of sedition, although the Supreme Court of the United States later overturned that conviction. The radical anarchist Luigi Galleani and eight of his Galleanist adherents were deported in June 1919 under the provisons of the Anarchist Exclusion Act, three weeks after the June 2 wave of bombings. Although authorities did not have enough evidence to arrest Galleani for the bombings, they could deport him because he was a resident alien who had overtly encouraged the violent overthrow of the government, was a known associate of Carlo Valdonoci and had authored an explicit how-to bomb making manual titled La Salute é in Voi (The Health is Within You), used by other Galleanists to construct some of their package bombs.
In December 1919, Palmer's agents gathered 249 citizens and immigrants of Russian origin, including well-known radical leaders such as Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, and placed them on a ship bound for the Soviet Union (The Buford, called the Soviet Ark by the press). In January 1920, another 6,000 were arrested, mostly members of the Industrial Workers of the World union, a legal labor association. During one of the raids, more than 4,000 individuals were rounded up in a single night. By January 1920, Palmer and the Department of Justice had organized the largest mass arrests in U.S. history, rounding up at least 10,000 individuals.
Louis Freeland Post, then Assistant Secretary of Labor, [9] cancelled more than 2000 of these warrants as being illegal.[10] Of the many thousands arrested, 556 people were eventually deported under the 1918 Anarchist Act.[11]
For most of 1919 and early 1920, much of the public sided with Palmer, but this soon changed. Palmer announced that an attempted Communist revolution was certain to take place in the U.S. on May 1, 1920 (May Day). No such revolution took place on May 1, leading to criticism of Palmer.[12] However, on September 16 of that year the Wall Street bombing by Galleanist anarchists killed thirty-eight persons and wounded 400; it was the deadliest bombing attack to date in the United States.
On May 28, 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union published a report entitled Report of the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice which carefully documented unlawful Departmental authorization of the arrests of suspected radicals, illegal entrapment by agent provocateurs and unlawful incommunicado detention. The report was signed by prominent lawyers and law professors, including Felix Frankfurter, Roscoe Pound and Ernst Freund. Palmer was called before the House Rules Committee and strongly defended his actions and that of his department, saying "I apologize for nothing that the Department of Justice has done in this matter. I glory in it."[13][14]
In June 1920, Judge George Anderson effectively ended the raids when he ordered the discharge of twenty aliens, and denounced Department of Justice actions. The discovery of trumped-up charges and the Daugherty-Burns scandal turned public opinion against further large-scale arrests and searches, though subsequent bomb attacks and public clamor to punish the radicals believed responsible did not subside.[ Palmer, once seen as a likely presidential candidate, lost the nomination. For their part, the Galleanists continued their violent bombing campaign, which would last another twelve years.
What was Hitler's plans of attack against Communism?
He would defeat all countries between Germany and the Soviet Union.
