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Communism is a nice theory. But what Marx did not take into account is human greed. He was an idealist, not a realist.

Communism is a good idea.

But if you aren't going to get a better house/car/w.e than the person who sits around and does nothing because they have a disability then why would you strive, try your absolute hardest when you achieve nothing besides knowing you did a good job.

Thanksgiving is probably a good example, when it was communal, and people had their farm and produced food for the good of the community, they starved, it wasn't until they all had their own individual farms that they succeed in producing any crops.

People don't like a lot of things. But they still happen.

Well. you all just explained Communism pretty well.

Communism is a good "idea" but will never work. Right now China is one example, before they started changing into a socialist economy. Their economy wasn't even doing as well and the people were suffering.

Anyway, communism got it's foot hold in the world after World War I. People were desperate and turned to other forms of government which gave the "best" look for their people but most of the time it didn't turn that way. After World War II more countries were turning to communism. America didn't want the communist government taking over. As a result, America was supporting countries that were in need, militarily and in the countries problems. Also, both countries where supporting 3rd world countries in civil and minor wars where we have never heard about. Also the Cold war was caused because of the communist party taking over most of Eastern Europe after World War II. Ths happened because Britian, Russia, America, France the super powers of the time had defeated Germany and Japan. Without and enemy both Russia and America became enemies.

Has anyone heard of the saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Guess who the enemy was at the in World war II, it was Germany and the enemy of Germany was Russia.
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Now as we have learned.... for most of us. Both the Korean war and the Vietnam war were caused by a Communist party taking over another country and America stepping in with the UN of the time to oppose this. Also in Berlin, located North of Germany. The Berlin wall was erected by the Communist party of the time to stop the people on East Berlin to cross over to West Berline where it was under American control. This is one of the few reason why Communism looks evil.

If all the communist parties didn't do these actions. Would Communism look evil? In my opinion yes, Communism wouldn't look evil if the parties didn't do these actions.

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communism is a good system roughly. it just needs some fine tuning. perhaps, in a future, be it distant or close, we shall see the true potential of communism.

america did do a fine job making me think bad about it. whenever I hear or say the word ''communism'' I think of opression... darn
how do they do it?

anyway, all we can do is hope for the future.

There has never been a true communist country. All the countries you talk about are socialists, countries completely run by the government, as opposed to communism, countries completely run by the people. The government promises a communist country but to be able to make the transition all the belongings have to pass into possession of the government so things can be spread evenly amongst the people. Unfortunately the governments are corrupt and once they assume power of all the country they become socialists.