Communism killed 200 HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE and I'll I got was a lousy t-shirt. But enough about them... they aren't considered "Real Communists" anymore.
Communism started under the Marxist ideals state that the trouble in society is when a small ruling class exploits the much larger working classes and the only way to protect the mass of people is to reduce the power of the ruling class and make the workers control the country.
This was championed by Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin. Who's only difference really was their name.
They both lead the October Revolution, Lenin became Primere, Trotsky the Commisar of the people.
However the Communist system, allowing only one party to rule, the worker's party which no one could challenge without being demonized as an imperialist. Because Communism countries are also Socialist countries, this led to the goverment owning and maintaining all means of production and industry. This removed the average citizen's means for self support. Free enterprise, entrepreneurship and innovation in industry was only allowed with the goverment's approval. The government set the prices on everything from hotel rooms, to telephone service to how much grain cost and how much you could have of these things. It didn't matter if they made a profit, it was for the people, feeding those who could not feed themselves, and even if they could feed themselves, the communist government made sure everyone got the same thing, nothing more, nothing less.
To many people this sounds like a good thing. Heck this practices is even used in many Kibbutz in Israel. The workers of the farms work to support themselves, all get paid equally, all live in the same conditions, and all have to support the society.
HOWEVER... you can choose to leave a kibbutz
Communism as a government, has the party pick who will rule the party by a collective of party members who have shown distinction to the communist cause. True believers electing other true believers without people being allowed to vote.
This leads ALL Communist Governments down the road to Totalitarianism. When the Government not only controls all the industry, but also how families can be structured. With knowledge of how much food, land and supplies could be allocated, communist governments can control the amount of the population by allowing parents only one or two children each. How do they control that? you may ask? Well they do run the hospitals... they have access to everyone's records.
"You have three kids? Fine... We're only gonna allow you to collect food for two of them, and only two of them will go to school... choose wisely."
Everyone gets only what they need, no more, no less as dictated by the government. Fall outside the parameters and you're cut off.
And that's only ONE thing I have against Communism.
I await your rebuttal.
