Communism

lol. I am progressive. I love America, and I agree with socialism. hmmm, how does that work?

If you're one of those who listens to Glenn Beck (sorry to assume if I'm wrong), don't you find it interesting that in our own Pledge of Allegiance, it says:

"with liberty and justice for all"

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That sounds like our founding fathers supported social justice, which is what socialism is all about.

Is America.... UN-American?!

The appeal of communism was that the citizens of living in a communist government would end oppression and result in an economy that would fairly distribute the wealth produced within the country.

Actually Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels did not create communism. Thy believed that it was a scientific reality that "class struggle" determined major economic and political events. They did urge workers to follow ans accept a workers revolution and identified certain aspects of the revolution that should and most likely be part of the revolution and its final aftermath, communism.

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Lenin was absolutely a dedicated revolutionary. He was so dedicated that he used Marxism as a philosophical basis to convince the people of Russia that the Tsar should be overthrown, but he was not patient enough to wait for the people of Russia to become a true Marxian proletariat of workers. When he was able to take over the country, he did so in a political insurrection against a weak government. It was not at all a Marxian revolution.

Lenin became dedicated to revolution when his older brother Alexander was shot for plotting to assassinate Tsar Alexander III.

Lenin branded himself a "dedicated revolutionary." Part of his Leninist philosophy was that a revolution should be conducted by a small group of "professional revolutionaries," rather than by a large but loosely organized mass of workers as Karl Marx had predicted.

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Lenin was involved with several Marxist/Communist newspapers. The most prominent was "Pravda" which was the official newspaper of the Communist Party. He also wrote for "Iskra," "Vperyod," "and "Proletarii." These were Marxist revolutionary newspapers founded before the Bolshevik Party changed its name to the Communist Party.

The Berlin Wall! Of course, the date given for it's "fall" of November 9, 1989 can be misleading, as the wall was only partially dismantled by souvenir collectors - it was still guarded well after that date. In fact, a more accurate answer is probably that communism ended in East Germany after it's reunification on March 18, 1990.

At first, Lenin wanted a society where the factories and land would be owned by a central government, i.e., socialism. Eventually the factories would not so much be "owned" by anyone; they would just be operated by the workers and peasant farmers of the proletariat according to the philosophies of Karl Marx on how true communism would be in the future. That would not yet be possible until after a period of socialism where a strong government would own the factories and land until such time as the people stopped working for individual profit and began working for the common good of the society as a whole.

Communism did NOT prevail in Vietnam, because communism is powerful, or better than other forms of government. For the purposes of the Vietnam War, communism was just a "name", the North Vietnamese could have been "Imperialists" or just "Attackers against their Neighbors over a territorial dispute". The "physical" reason for their victory was the ability to sustain war (supply line), by having two "Big Brothers" to protect them (Soviets & and Red China). The US did NOT want to fight the two big brothers (that would have turned the cold war into WWIII). The US could NOT cut those supply lines; without possible risk of fighting those two big brothers.

During the period of War Communism in the new Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky used the forum of the Third Congress of Trade Unions to justify the military tactics used against industrial workers. He attacked the Menshevik idea that such force and compulsion was counter productive and clearly an anti labor position by the Communists. Trotsky claimed that to move forward with the "revolution" that workers who did not cooperate would face military "justice". The Mensheviks were appalled at this.

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Russia's devastated economy began to recover.
Russia was forced to begin importing food products.
Russia was forced to begin importing food products.

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There is no such thing as a "communist government" if one is talking about communism according to Karl Marx. Marx stated as socialism evolved into communism the state, meaning government, would wither away as no longer being necessary. Thus if a country even has a government, it is not communist according to Karl Marx. Such countries might call themselves communist, but they are not.

Most people would not call Vladimir Lenin "attractive", but rather very Russian-like.

Note that his eyes are slanted, noting a possible Mongolian heritage in his family. His beard and mustache are recognizable, although he shaved them off once as a disguise. According to many sources, such as pictures and family friends, Lenin was always well dressed and was average in height (5'5").

Lenin was actually not Russian-like in any sense of the word. He had a Mongolian look to him precisely because he was part Mongolian. Lenin did not have a drop of pure Russian blood in him.

His charisma lay in the righteousness of his cause, his great intellect, and his charming bedroom eyes.

Propoganda was the main method used to deter communism in America. 'Witch Hunts' was also notoriously used to discourage people from Communism ideals.

Marx believed that a revolutionary change in a society's economic system would produce a change in society's political systems. Marx's revolution would have been one where the workers of the world (the proletariat) would take the means of production (factories, etc.) away from their owners and controllers (the bourgeoisie. This would be a revolution of one economic class against another.

Lenin believed that a revolutionary change in a society's political system was necessary in order to impose a change in the economic system. Lenin's revolution was one where a small group of people (Bolsheviks) seized control of the government (the political entity). The conditions that Marx felt would spark the economic revolution never existed in Russia.

Lenin left for Europe on two occasions. The first was around 1900 when his three year term in exile in Siberia ended. He wanted to continue his revolutionary agitation, but the Tsarist regime would have arrested and imprison or exile him again. He went to Europe so that he could write revolutionary books and articles for publication in Russia. He also wanted to keep his hand in revolutionary activities from abroad.

Lenin also fled to Europe (Finland to be exact) in early July 1917. There was an attempt at a revolution in July which failed. The Tsarist regime began arresting every revolutionary they could. He went to Finland, for awhile then shaved off his beard and snuck back into Russia disguised as a railway worker.

Whilst I don't believe my answer is a complete answer it is perhaps a semantic one:

"Marxism" is a political theory developed at the end of the 19th Century by Marx and Engels. It's policies are laid out in the original "Manifesto of the Communist Party" published by Karl Marx and NOT to be confused with the Constitution of the former Soviet Union.

Marx expected his Proletarian Revolution to begin in capitalist developing countries with a large intellectual class and educated workers. The very last place in Europe he expected to see adoption of his economic and political policies was Tzarist Russia, which had virtually no middle class and no education for peasants and workers.

Karl Marx's work makes no mention of restriction of free speech.

Lenin was the leader of the October Revolution of 1917 (also called the Bolshevik Revolution). As to the February Revolution of 1917, Lenin was living in Switzerland at the time and it was over before he even heard about it.

If you want to know why Communism would be a threat to the American Way of Life, look up Constitution of the United States. Read the first 10 amendments to the constitution. That gives a list of the rights you would lose. How would you like to go to court and hear, "You have been accused of a crime. What do you have to say for yourself?" You would say, "What crime? Who accused me of what?" The judge would say, "You should know." You would say, "Where is the jury. Surely other people would think this is stupid. The judge would say, "We do not have juries. They cause too much trouble. Since you have said nothing in your defense, 10 years in a Siberian work camp." That is how things went in the Glorious People's Republic. It is also about how things went before the Revolutionary War and why the first 10 amendments were added to the constitution. Read them. They were added in reaction to the way England had governed the 13 colonies since 1763 also known as the Intolerable Acts.

Lenin added the concept that the road to communism did not need to wait for the creation of a proletariat of exploited workers to rise up and seize the means of production. He believed that a properly coordinated centralized group of professional revolutionaries could do so politically and this is exactly what he and the Bolsheviks did in the October Revolution of 1917. The so-called Communist Revolution was not one that Marx had originally envisioned.

Hello: In a free market most citizens can become entrepreneurs and they will then own and control the means of production. In a free market most citizens may purchase the stock of companies on the stock exchange. They will then own a part of those companies and their means of production. We cannot all own all of the means of production. That isn't ownership. When the state owns the means then the individual person owns nothing. The workers taken together may be sovereign as an ideal but it is impossible for the individual worker/citizen to control the whole of the economy.

Karl Marx posited in 'Das Kapital", that the means of production should be taken by force and operated by teams of technocrats who were responsible to the People's "Natural Rulers" by which he mean the land owning nobility. So Marx didn't actually promote worker control and ownership of production. Marx promoted a people with equal power and ownership controlled by a few well meaning wise people. A people who were essentially powerless and owned nothing.

The answer to the question is: "The Free Market Economists" believe the worker should own and control the means of production. Each worker may own all of his own company or part of a jointly owned and controlled productive activity. That is the underlying condition in a free market and a free society. In America we frequently see an arrangement where the workers actually own part of and have some control of the company where they work. This is all accomplished by voluntary cooperation. Free markets provide ownership without force. By definition, totalitarian societies use coercion to compel obedience in a system where most everyone owns nothing and have little control of their own lives.

Officially unknown but many predict it was to smoothen the ideological transition

Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution, with Stalin his second in command.