I thought I knew what Communism pretty much entailed, but now I’m not so sure. I’m thinking of the difference between North Korea and South Korea. I guess I just don’t know enough about the two, but even less about Communism.

I’m sure a book could be written on this subject, but a guess I’m just looking for an "in a nut shell" kind of thing, and in your own words and your own opinion, whether you’re pro or con Communism. No Wikipedia copy & paste please.

communism is when the government controls every aspect of the economy. technically you could have a democratic communist country but dictators tend to be spawned in communist countries. as history shows, communism is a shing example of failure and human waste. china is only still kicking because it gave up hard core communism and introduced free market principles, like the ability to own your own buisness. cuba recently followed suit. communism makes a country of mindless serfs slaving away for the forwarding of the "greater good," when in reality they are slaves who value no one individually and view everyone as a otherwise useless part of the whole.

I thought I knew what Communism pretty much entailed, but now I’m not so sure. I’m thinking of the difference between North Korea and South Korea. I guess I just don’t know enough about the two, but even less about Communism.

I’m sure a book could be written on this subject, but a guess I’m just looking for an "in a nut shell" kind of thing, and in your own words and your own opinion, whether you’re pro or con Communism. No Wikipedia copy & paste please.

communism is when the government controls every aspect of the economy. technically you could have a democratic communist country but dictators tend to be spawned in communist countries. as history shows, communism is a shing example of failure and human waste. china is only still kicking because it gave up hard core communism and introduced free market principles, like the ability to own your own buisness. cuba recently followed suit. communism makes a country of mindless serfs slaving away for the forwarding of the "greater good," when in reality they are slaves who value no one individually and view everyone as a otherwise useless part of the whole.

I thought I knew what Communism pretty much entailed, but now I’m not so sure. I’m thinking of the difference between North Korea and South Korea. I guess I just don’t know enough about the two, but even less about Communism.

I’m sure a book could be written on this subject, but a guess I’m just looking for an "in a nut shell" kind of thing, and in your own words and your own opinion, whether you’re pro or con Communism. No Wikipedia copy & paste please.

communism is when the government controls every aspect of the economy. technically you could have a democratic communist country but dictators tend to be spawned in communist countries. as history shows, communism is a shing example of failure and human waste. china is only still kicking because it gave up hard core communism and introduced free market principles, like the ability to own your own buisness. cuba recently followed suit. communism makes a country of mindless serfs slaving away for the forwarding of the "greater good," when in reality they are slaves who value no one individually and view everyone as a otherwise useless part of the whole.

Lower-case communism refers to Marx and Lenin’s party, but upper-case Communism refers to Stalin’s Communist Party.Lower case communism refers to any idea or system for sharing property in a community; upper-case Communism is the name given to Lenin’s specific political system and political party.
Different books print the word differently, but there is no difference between the two.No answer is correc

It is a distinction without a difference.

I still don’t really understand the diff..

Is it that communism is just extreme socialism?

Socialism is a mixed market economy which government has more role in the public goods,education,healthcare etc or where the market cannot function so well. But it depends on market economy and competition in the goods and services sector.Communism is a center commanded economy.It price is set by calculation, not demand and supply and the market.

I know that to usual prejudice, you typically just add an -ism or an -ist to the end. In this case, the -ism in communism in already there and if you add a -ist that would be communist, which doesn’t work either. So is there a prejudice to communism?

Do you mean a prejudice *against* communism? Like anti-communism? I have heard the word "communophobia" used, but it sounds clunky. How about McCarthyism?

I need to know for a project. Can you start a business in Communism in China, and if so, how do you do it? Also, does the government decide your job or do you chose it?
In a free market economy, like Somalia, how do you start a business?

In a truly Communist economy (and China isn’t anymore), you would have to get permission from the government to start a business.

President Obama the great has rightly calculated that communism is a must to make the world a happier place, so support him to overthrow capitalism and ruin our economy because " the greatest happiness of the greatest number" is only rendered possible through the existance of bolshevism.

The failure of the USSR would suggest….no.

We’re doing a debate in history and our subject is communism during the great depression. I however am on the against side. what are some points that i could use as to why communism was bad?

You should argue that the Depression made communism appealing- the business and banking classes had created a disaster through speculation and manipulation of the market- but that temporary failure should not seduce people into thinking communism is better.

Communism was uniquely attractive, or repulsive, depending on your viewpoint, because it promised (demanded) the complete reorganisation of society with the wealthy removed from power, by removing their right to own property. Under communism, all property- especially the ‘means of production’- factories and capital- was owned by everyone- or no-one… the state owned it. This removed much of the scope for human creativity and enterprise. People had no real economic freedom to create a business, they had to fit into the ‘big plan’.

This caused people to stop trying hard (unless they had a gun put to their back) and society overall became less productive.

You should argue that moderate changes to the system, to prevent market manipulation and protect the economy, are a better answer.

Hi! I’m thirteen years old and in school I need to write an essay on communism. I asked my dad about communism, so i know what it is and I know that it usually does not work at all. However, my dad told me that in communist countries all the power usually ends up in one group of people. I have no idea how, isn’t communism a way to stop power from belonging to a minority? Why exactly does communism not work, and how does the leaders in communist countries get so much power?

Thanks.

Now I will give you the real answer, not the bullshit the other people made up.

I will use the example of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union was concentrated on national prestige. They allocated the best land, capital and workers towards the Space Program, Military, and Heavy Industry. They left everything else for the production of consumer goods.

The Soviet economy was a planned economy. The economy was planned before hand how to run, how many products to produce, how many building to build, how many tanks, nukes to make etc…

The advantage is that it provides economic stability(something the US economy lacks), but the number of consumer goods they estimated that they needed to produce was often underestimated. Most goods were cheap so that everyone can afford them, but when you would go to try to buy it, they might have been sold out already, because too few were produced.

Once the quota of making, lets say 10 shirts a day was reached in a company, then there was no reason to make more. A lot of times factories focused more on quantity rather than quality.

You have to realize that the Soviet Union did not fail, after all they had the Best army in the world, the best airforce in the world, and the largest number of nuclear weapons in the world. Also the Space program was years ahead of that of the United States. The only problem was that they allocated too many resources to these.

Another problem with the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR/Soviet Union) is that it was a union of 15 Soviet Republics.. There was a big difference in culture, in the East you have huge cities, wit ha modern culture, go to the south/west and you have a totally different people, and trying to integrate all the people together cause unrest. Thats why after the "collapse" of the Union you have conflict going on like the Dagestan Invasion.

You also have to realize that even here in the US we are governed by a small group of people, we call the the rich. The pretty much own the economy, the media, and the government. You see, we the common people have no real power in our society, we don’t make decisions, we don’t control the economy, and we are told trough TV, Radio, Newspapers all sort of lies. They tell you that the US is the best place in the world, they tell you the US has the best military. Is that why the US can’t defeat a few thousand "terrorists" that have very limited resources? They don’t tell you how many thousands of civilians they have killed, and why the US is seen as an occupational force. There are many videos of helicopter pilots killing innocent people, but the news never tells you that do they? The rich will do everything to keep the common man stupid.

Thats where real communism comes in. No rich, no poor, no government, yep no government, there has never been a true communist country, only dictatorships covered behind communism. Though most communist ideas were used, most were twisted and bent.
The rulers of communist countries forgot about the most important thing about the idea of communism. No government, and equality and a good life for all people.