Communism

* People's Republic of China (since 1949); Communist Party of China

* Republic of Cuba (Cuban Revolution in 1959, socialist state declared in 1961); Communist Party of Cuba

* Democratic People's Republic of Korea (since 1948); Korean Workers' Party

* Lao People's Democratic Republic (since 1975); Lao People's Revolutionary Party

* Socialist Republic of Vietnam (since 1976); Communist Party of Vietnam (ruled the Democratic Republic of Vietnam since 1954)

While these countries share a similar system of government, they have adopted very different economic policies over the past 15 years.

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EDIT by mnmazur: I'd like to note that while the People's Republic of China claims to be communist, and is still often called communist, many political scientists (myself included) do not consider it to be so. I am a practicing communist and a political scientist, and do not consider China to be communist, nor do many of my non-communist colleagues. For most purposes, however (ie a research project) it would not be incorrect to refer to China as being communist. EDIT by e7th04sh: Indeed, as a true anti-communist (i disagree not with the means, but with the goal of the system) i must say that many anti-communist sources agree with that conclusion. One particular remarkable polish conservative-liberal politican and publicist made a remark, that educated people are naive these day's believing China is communist and USA capitallist. (He did not mean it's '''exactly''' opposite, tough.) Since ideological terms often are negatively perceived because of their history, many governments and many parties do not use terms like communism or especially fascism or nazism to describe their agenda, while they are in fact valid. As an example, European Union (there is controversy wether it already exists or not, but it does de facto) has a public relation of a free trade area, because it encourages free trade between different states. Mind you tough that countries under the rule of European Parliament are suffering from heavy restrictions. Most ridiculous, if you let me mention it, is the law that bananas need to be curved and similar regulations for other egetables and fruits. Anyways, it's unwise to try to label countries and movements, because the meaning of labels and their political use is subject to manipulation. It's better to talk about facts, and wether someone is a communist or not depends on the understanding of the term. Thus, as was previously said, the "communist" states mentioned are only called so for historical/propaganda reasons.

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WEll, given that the UN was not actually ratified into being until after the war was over in 1945, they would have had a hard time battling Communism, wouldn't they? NOt that the UN would particularly have been interested in battling one form of ideology over another, as part of its charter is to broker peace instead of arbitrate over disputes. Besides, Communism was no particular threat, especially to the US in the 40s, because the USA was at war with Japan and were actually allies with the Soviet Union throughout the coflict, running convoys of supplies to northern Russian cities like Murmansk, all the time at terrible risk of a mauling from the German submarines that picked them off like chickens. Here's an idea for you: try reading http://www.un.org/aboutun/history.htm

Because the German's were scared that communism would shape Germany's future because of cheesecake.

no, Germany fell to Nazism in 1932 because of that.

East Germany became communist in 1945 because the USSR occupied it.

The communist party of the Peoples Republic of China saw the advantages of a free market economy. They created one that seems to operate on at least a semi-free market system, complete with a stock market and individual "millionaires". A shock to Marxists of the school of Marxism-Leninism. The Party leaders, however, still have the ultimate control of how the government should operate. There remains only one true political party in China, the revisionist communist party.

Communism is a form of authoritarian government which was used in the 20th century to implement communism, a system of economic relations where the means of production are given to the proletariat and class distinctions are broken-down.

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Communist Party of Australia This article is about the historical Communist Party of Australia, dissolved in 1991. For the current party, see Communist Party of Australia (revived) The Communist Party of Australia was founded in Sydney on 30 October 1920 by a group of socialists inspired by reports of the Russian Revolution. Among the party's founders were a prominent Sydney trade unionist, Jock Garden, Adela Pankhurst (daughter of the British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst) and most of the then illegal Australian section of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW rapidly left the Communist Party, with its original members, over disagreements with the direction of the Soviet Union and Bolshevism. In its early years, mainly through Garden's efforts, the party achieved some influence in the trade union movement in New South Wales, but by the mid 1920s it had dwindled to an insignificant sect.

History In the later 1920s the party was rebuilt by Jack Kavanagh, a experienced Canadian Communist activist, and Esmonde Higgins, a talented Melbourne journalist who was the nephew of a High Court judge, H.B. Higgins. But in 1929 the party leadership fell into disfavour with the Comintern, which under orders from Stalin had taken a turn to extreme revolutionary rhetoric (the so-called "Third Period"), and an emissary, the American Communist Harry Wicks, was sent to sort the party out. Kavanagh was expelled and Higgins resigned.

A new party leadership, consisting of J B (Jack) Miles, Lance Sharkey and Richard Dixon, was imposed on the party by the Comintern, and remained in control for the next 30 years. During the 1930s the party experienced some growth, particularly after 1935 when the Comintern changed its policy in favour of a "united front against fascism." The party began to win positions in trade unions such as the Miners Federation and the Waterside Workers Federation, although its parliamentary candidates nearly always polled poorly at elections.

During the early stages of World War II the party was banned, but after the Soviet Union entered the war the party had a brief period of popularity. Its membership rose to 20,000, it won control of a number of important trade unions, and a Communist candidate, Fred Paterson, was elected to the Queensland parliament. But the party remained marginal to the Australian political mainstream. The Australian Labor Party remained the dominant party of the Australian working class, and always refused to enter alliances with the Communists.

After 1945 and the onset of the Cold War, the party entered a steady decline. Following the new line from Moscow, and believing that a new "imperialist war" and a new depression were imminent, and that the CPA should immediately contest for leadership of the working class with the Australian Labor Party, the CPA lauched an industrial offensive in 1947, culminating in a prolonged strike in the coalmines in 1949. The Chifley Labor government saw this as a Communist challenge to its position in the labour movement, and used the army to break the strike. The Communist Party never again held such a strong position in the union movement.

In 1951 the Menzies conservative government tried to ban the party, first by legislation that was declared invalid by the High Court, then by referendum to try to overcome the constitutional obstacles to that legislation, but the referendum was narrowly defeated. When Stalin died and Khrushchev revealed his crimes in the Secret Speech, members began to leave. More left after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. In 1961 the split between the Soviet Union and China was mirrored in Australia, with a small pro-China party being formed.

By the 1960s the party's membership had fallen to around 5,000, but it continued to hold positions in a number of trade unions, and it was also influential in the various protest movements of the period, especially the movement against the Vietnam War. But the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 triggered another crisis. Sharkey's successor as party leader, Laurie Aarons, denounced the invasion, causing a group of pro-Soviet hardliners to leave and form a new party, the Socialist Party of Australia.

Through the 1970s and 1980s the party continued to decline, despite adopting the rhetoric of Eurocommunism and democratising its internal structures so that it became a looser radical party rather than a classic Marxist-Leninist one. By 1990 its membership had declined to less than a thousand, and in 1991 it was wound up. In 1996 the Socialist Party then took up the now-unused name of Communist Party of Australia (see Communist Party of Australia (revived)). This party, along with a number of small Trotskyist groups, maintains the Communist tradition in Australia, but none of these groups is of any political significance.

Legacy Despite its usually peripheral role in Australian politics and its ultimate failure, the Communist Party had an influence far beyond its numbers. From 1935 to the 1960s it occupied leadership positions in a number of important trade unions, and was at centre of many major industrial conflicts. Many of its members played leading roles in Australian cultural life, such as the novelists Katharine Pritchard, Judah Waten and Alan Marshall, the painter Noel Counihan and the poet David Martin.

In some ways the negative influence of the Communist Party was more important than anything the party itself did. Conservative politicians such as Stanley Bruce in the 1920s and Robert Menzies in the 1950s won elections by linking the Labor Party with Communism. In the early 1950s Catholics in the Labor Party were led by hatred of Communism to form "Industrial Groups" to combat Communist influence in the unions. This led in 1954 to a party split and the formation of the Democratic Labor Party, which used its second preferences at elections to keep the ALP out of power.

The Communist Party and its members campaigned for many years for causes such as improved conditions for industrial workers, opposition to fascist and other dictatorships, equal rights for women and civil rights for the Aboriginal people. It achieved some successes in these areas, and many of its positions were later taken up by the political mainstream. But the party never succeeded in persuading many people that Communism was the answer to these problems. Against these achievements must be set the party's long history as an apologist for Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union. It was revulsion against this which led most of the party's best members to leave sooner or later.

Youth movement The youth wing of CPA worked under several different names in different periods, Young Communists, Eureka Youth League, Young Socialist League and Young Communist Movement of Australia. The Eureka Youth had been a founding member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a membership later taken over by YCM.

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The first communist government was a result of the Bolshevic Revolution, which started in Petrograd, Russia on 7 November 1917.

A. Mitchell Palmer was the United States Attorney General who led raids on suspected communists. He was Attorney General from 1919 to 1921.

Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engles (1820-1895) founded the modern Communist movement to promote the value of the common man, and to end the suffering of individuals under the rule of aristocracies and tyrants. Their aim was ultimately advanced by the Bolsheviks under Lenin, but perverted under Stalin to create the very sort of ruling class that they wished to eliminate.

Core beliefs of the Warsaw Pact would include:

The inevitable historical victory of communism over capitalism

The leadership of the USSR in the community of communist nations

The fundamental guidance of Marxist-Leninism

The need to defend against the aggression of NATO

atheism

many were set back a decade or so with technology, they are still poor, the people are mentally scared from the way they lived. many governments are still corrupt.

During this maneuver, a person performs the "breathe-in-bear-down" movement that is automatically performed during strenuous exercise

Communism is first established as a form of government as a result of the Russian Revolution in 1917, which in turn was largely as a result of WW1. Marx suggests that it would happen in an industrialised European country, either Britain or Germany it appeared likely, but in fact Russia was among the least industrialised at that time. It needs to be said that what Lenin, Trotsky et al & subsequently Stalin actually produced as a form of government & Communism do not sit well together in the same sentence on the page of this correspondent. Nonetheless it is what the world sees as Communism, but this idealist would prefer something which is far more People orientated. In saying that however it is equally obvious that capitalism has a greater appeal to people, right up to just before the point the bank arrives to repossess your house....

The growth of drug trafficking in Cali.

Adolf Hitler

Communism was VERY close to being completely gone, but it's still here and strengthening in many countries. China, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam are still communist but here's a list of future communist states: Nepal, India, Cyprus, Belarus, Venezuela, and maybe Brazil in the very far future. It's still alive and growing, especially because of China.

Well in theory, Communism is a theory in which there is no government in a society (similar to anarchy) however Communism unlike anarchy wished to eliminate the process and money itself. Karl Marx (first man to publish major theories on communism) studied the history of society from the beginning, and he found out in almost all time there were always haves and have nots, he also noted how that the society that worked the best worked without money as it was an incentive. In theory to reach communism you must establish a socialist state, where the government controls all economic sectors, and over the period of tens to maybe even hundreds of years the government would start losing power along with money until both money and government will not exist and the people will work without money or government. The theories range from a more logical trotsky to the extreme of stalinism.

Without proper regard for evidence, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy is infamous for his practice of making accusations of subversion or treason during a period known as the Second Red Scare, from about 1947 - 1956. So we call that practice "McCarthyism".

Communism is where all the citizens get paid the exact amount. Take China, for example. They have a population of 1.3 billion, and a higher population means less for everyone. There's an equality for the whole community, but there's no incentive to work hard because you don't get paid on how well you work, you get paid the same amount all the time.

Red scare

heightened suspicion of Communists and other radicals, and the fear of widespread infiltration of Communists in U.S. government.