A system that while it may work with some modification, is too unstable in today's greed obsessed world.
Communism failed because it banned business and religion. What idiot does that? Business and religion have always been the most powerful forces of society.
by Eddy August 19, 2003
A political-economic system in which the government owns all businesses, all wealth is divided among the citizens, and the citizens receive free education and health care. Communism also allows no religion and forces its atheist propaganda among its citizens. Communism would be a wonderful system of government if the Soviet political leaders weren't a bunch of asses who only cared about themselves.
Communism: You and everyone in your neighborhood have two cows. The cows are sent to the neighborhood barn where they are all taken care of equally, and everybody shares the milk.
Soviet Communism: You have two cows. You take care of the cows and the government takes the milk.
Soviet Communism: You have two cows. You take care of the cows and the government takes the milk.
by REBECCCCAAAA October 13, 2005
A cool idea (I mean, who doesn’t want everything to be shared and equal?) that sounds like it’ll work on paper, but when you try starting it, it fails horribly due to a lot of factors went unnoticed and unseen
“Without the bids and offers of private owners, prices reflecting their relative market values cannot develop. And without market prices, it is impossible to coordinate production activities so that the goods and services consumers need will be available. That is why Communism fails.”
-Foundation for Economic Education
-Foundation for Economic Education
by nlolhere June 27, 2020
by qwert April 22, 2005
A socialist theory advocated by Karl Marx in which the proletariat (working class) tried to attain rights, and fair wages. By abolishing bourgeois (middle class business owners) property the proletariat hoped for equality.
During the Industrial Revolution the proletariat (lower class) were forced to switch from the work they were used to doing, agriculture and farming, to working in factories for the bourgeois (middle class busines owners). They worked sometimes 16-18 hour days and didn't even get paid enough to live. (Which is why from 8 years old and up children were dropping out of school to work full time in the hopes their family wouldn't starve that day. Although kids often got paid 1/10 of what an adult did.) As machines were getting easier to use more people had the skills necessary (none...) to work. Because of this the number of proletariat continued to increase and so the laws made for/by the bourgeois didn't apply to the lower class which was by far, the majority. Karl Marx had a theory and this theory was communism. Marx belief was that by abolishing bourgeois property it would level out the playing field so the proletariat had the chance to prosper, and be functioning members of society.
by think.learn.then.use.it November 7, 2006
An ideology based essentially on the idea expounded by Karl Marx, that in an ideal society everyone would receive what they needed and would produce according to their capacity. From this idea was elaborated a doctrine whereby a Socialist state would be established that would in time subsume the economic structure of society into itself. At this point the State itself would wither and the new ideal Communist society would emerge. It's surely a beautiful idea on paper, and may even work with small tribal bands ... but just try to apply it to a society made of millions of us naked apes and see what happens.
Marx incidentally suggested that agrarian societies would be more likely to develop in time along such lines; the adoption of Communist doctrine by industrial societies like Leninist-Stalinist Russia may arguably be in itself a perversion of Marx's idea.
Marx incidentally suggested that agrarian societies would be more likely to develop in time along such lines; the adoption of Communist doctrine by industrial societies like Leninist-Stalinist Russia may arguably be in itself a perversion of Marx's idea.
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the exact reverse. - John Gardner
Any man who is not a Communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a Communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool. - George Bernard Shaw.
Communism: right idea, wrong species. - Jermaine Evans
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both intelligent and sincere. - George Orwell.
A Communist is like a crocodile - when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up. - Winston Churchill
Any man who is not a Communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a Communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool. - George Bernard Shaw.
Communism: right idea, wrong species. - Jermaine Evans
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both intelligent and sincere. - George Orwell.
A Communist is like a crocodile - when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up. - Winston Churchill
by Fearman November 20, 2007
Bernie Sanders is communism.
communism in a nut EX:
CNN producer: OH my shit Bernie Sanders looks like he shit himself and is having a stroke he should get off the stage and cut off the live feed.
Every patriotic American ever: Well, this is actually a win-win situation. Bernie was going to push the middle class taxes to 53 percent anyway. YAY!
CNN producer: OH my shit Bernie Sanders looks like he shit himself and is having a stroke he should get off the stage and cut off the live feed.
Every patriotic American ever: Well, this is actually a win-win situation. Bernie was going to push the middle class taxes to 53 percent anyway. YAY!
by THATTAWOOSHEESH January 15, 2018