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	* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/1832 Why do people vote for Communists?] by Luca Ferrini, June 2005		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/1832 Why do people vote for Communists?] by Luca Ferrini, June 2005
	* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/352 The Black Book] by Ralph Reiland, December 1999		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/352 The Black Book] by Ralph Reiland, December 1999
	* [~~http~~://~~mises~~.org/journals/jls/~~5_1~~/~~5_1_5.pdf~~ War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom] (pdf) by Sheldon L. Richman, 1981		* [https://freecapitalists.org/journals/jls/5-1-5/ War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom] (pdf) by Sheldon L. Richman, 1981
	* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/4492 The Myth of Monolithic Communism] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1979		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/4492 The Myth of Monolithic Communism] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1979
	* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/2197 The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1970		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/2197 The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1970

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	==Links==		==Links==
	* [~~http~~://mises.org/daily/2652 The Death Camp of Communist China] by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., July 2007		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/2652 The Death Camp of Communist China] by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., July 2007
	* [~~http~~://mises.org/daily/1832 Why do people vote for Communists?] by Luca Ferrini, June 2005		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/1832 Why do people vote for Communists?] by Luca Ferrini, June 2005
	* [~~http~~://mises.org/daily/352 The Black Book] by Ralph Reiland, December 1999		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/352 The Black Book] by Ralph Reiland, December 1999
	* [http://mises.org/journals/jls/5_1/5_1_5.pdf War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom] (pdf) by Sheldon L. Richman, 1981		* [http://mises.org/journals/jls/5_1/5_1_5.pdf War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom] (pdf) by Sheldon L. Richman, 1981
	* [~~http~~://mises.org/daily/4492 The Myth of Monolithic Communism] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1979		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/4492 The Myth of Monolithic Communism] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1979
	* [~~http~~://mises.org/daily/2197 The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1970		* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/2197 The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1970
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	'''Communism''' is ~~another~~ name ~~for anarchy~~.		'''Communism''' is the political and economic doctrine that aims to replace [[private property]] and a [[profit]]-based economy with [[public ownership]] and communal control of at least the major means of [[production]] (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of '''[[socialism]]''' — a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists’ adherence to the revolutionary socialism of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name="Britannica_communism">Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism "communism (ideology)"], referenced 26 January, 2012.</ref>

	~~Nothing~~ more.		{{See also\|Socialism}}
			{{See also\|Economic calculation problem}}

			==History==
			Like most writers of the 19th century, Marx tended to use the terms communism and socialism interchangeably. In his ''Critique of the Gotha Programme'' (1875), however, Marx identified two phases of communism that would follow the predicted overthrow of [[capitalism]]: the first would be a transitional system in which the working class would control the government and economy yet still find it necessary to pay people according to how long, hard, or well they worked; the second would be fully realized communism—a society without class divisions or government, in which the production and distribution of goods would be based upon the principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Marx’s followers, especially the Russian revolutionary [[Vladimir Ilich Lenin]], took up this distinction.

			In ''State and Revolution'' (1917), Lenin asserted that socialism corresponds to Marx’s first phase of communist society and communism proper to the second. Lenin and the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party reinforced this distinction in 1918, the year after they seized power in Russia, by taking the name All-Russian Communist Party. Since then, communism has been largely, if not exclusively, identified with the form of political and economic organization developed in the [[Soviet Union]] and adopted subsequently in the [[People’s Republic of China]] and other countries ruled by communist parties.

			For much of the 20th century, in fact, about one-third of the world’s population lived under communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the rule of a single party that tolerated no opposition and little dissent. In place of a capitalist economy, in which individuals compete for profits, moreover, party leaders established a [[command economy]] in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. The inefficiency of these economies played a large part in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the remaining communist countries (excepting [[North Korea]]) are now allowing greater economic competition while holding fast to one-party rule. Whether they will succeed in this endeavour remains to be seen. Succeed or fail, however, communism is clearly not the world-shaking force it was in the 20th century.<ref name="Britannica_communism" />

			==The Soviet model==
			Traditionally, the main principles of socialism involved a commitment to equality, social justice, freedom, new opportunities for the poor, widening choice, respect for the individual and extending democracy. The Soviet model paid no more than lip service to any of these ideals. Soviet communism was not a classless society. Theoretically, under Marxism-Leninism, the working class was supposed to be dominant. The proletariat was the dynamic force that drove history, the textbooks said. The workers operated through a 'vanguard' - the Communist party.

			In practice, the leaders of the Communist Party sat at the top and did not trust the workers below. Leninists believed that the working class did not know what was in their best interest - they might, after all, if given the choice, allow the [[bourgeoisie]] to rule. So the Party would decide what was good for them.

			The basis of Soviet communism was the system known as '''[[nomenklatura]]''', which is how the Party maintained its power. It was an elaborate network of political patronage. Its result was that every important job in the country was held by a member of the Communist Party. Centrally and locally, a series of lists were maintained of all the positions that required Party membership - and of the people fit to hold them. This did not apply only to the top government and economic positions but in every field: judges, head teachers at big schools, managers of football clubs, the fire service bosses, senior army and police officers, newspaper editors, hospital administrators, college lecturers, theater and concert hall directors. The lists were enormous - in [[Czechoslovakia]], a country of about nine million people, there were something like 450.000 nomenklatura jobs in every conceivable walk of life. Politics became paramount.

			The Party enforced rigid hierarchical discipline on members rather like the army. The high ranks formed a closed elite, a self-perpetuating oligarchy. They had monopoly power and sole access to the fixed list of the to jobs. They rewarded themselves handsomely - luxurious houses, domestic staff, cars, the best medical care. They could travel occasionally to the West. They had access to a range of goods denied to others, from foodstuffs to furniture, at special shops where they paid with hard currency to which only they had access. Their children enjoyed all the class privileges of background and a relatively high standard of living. They went to the best schools and universities; they had far better job opportunities than the children of average workers. The children of the nomenklatura did very well - as long as they were obedient and faithful. The privileges depended on loyalty to the Party. One false step politically, and the job,the car, the nanny, the maidservant and cook, the children's university education, could all disappear overnight. Every rung of the Party ladder was formally required to execute the orders of the rung above, on the absolute Communist golden rule called, with no hint of irony, democratic centralism.<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall">Victor Sebestyen. "Revolution 1989: The Fall Of The Soviet Empire", p. 13-18. ISBN 978-0-7538-2709-3. Published in 2010. Referenced 2012-07-30.</ref>

			===Economic conditions===
			Unlike most religions, which offered rewards in heaven to come, communism promised earthly relief from miseries here and now. It was not delivering.

			The Soviet model was rigid. It was directed for political rather than economic ends, according to a centrally calculated Plan that bore no relation to the market. Prices and wages quickly turned out to be unrealistic, but no matter. They couldn't be changed because they were in the Plan, approved by the bureaucrats in the Party. It led to absurdities big and small. For example, there were no hairpins made in [[Poland]] throughout most of the 1970s. The Plan had of course been produced by men and no mention in it anywhere was made of hairpins, so there were none produced.

			For a couple of decades communism managed to provide the basics in most parts of Eastern Europe, though in some places only just. But even the showplace countries were never effective at providing consumer goods, which as time went on was what people wanted. From the mid-1960s the gap with the [[West]] began to widen, then grew further rapidly. From the start, the new Communist rulers made catastrophic mistakes. The worst was to try to turn light industrial and agricultural economies almost overnight into 'nations or iron and steel'. They did so because that is what Stalin had done in the [[USSR]] and the Soviet experience was dogma in all things. The obsession with heavy industry lasted throughout the Communist years. For most of them, the value of the natural resources mined and exported was considerably more than the finished goods produced in East European factories. Many manufactured products were made at a phenomenal loss.<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall" />

			===Corruption===
			Marxists argued that the absence of private property would abolish [[corruption]]. The opposite happened. In economies dominated by shortage, the only way to obtain a vast range of basic goods was through connections. A sophisticated system of [[barter]] and favors operated. If a doctor's family needed the fridge repaired an electrician, moonlighting almost certainly illegally from his normal work, would do the job in return for, say, a hospital appointment. A new part was needed for the fridge and there was only once place that could come from.

			Theft from workplace was common. An acute observer who knew many of the East European Part leaders thought that one of the worst aspects of communism was a new amorality. 'Many people believed embezzling from the state, from big frauds to petty larceny, was OK. It was argued it was even a way of fighting back, of resistance.'<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall" />

			==References==
			{{Reflist}}

			==Links==
			* [http://mises.org/daily/2652 The Death Camp of Communist China] by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., July 2007
			* [http://mises.org/daily/1832 Why do people vote for Communists?] by Luca Ferrini, June 2005
			* [http://mises.org/daily/352 The Black Book] by Ralph Reiland, December 1999
			* [http://mises.org/journals/jls/5_1/5_1_5.pdf War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom] (pdf) by Sheldon L. Richman, 1981
			* [http://mises.org/daily/4492 The Myth of Monolithic Communism] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1979
			* [http://mises.org/daily/2197 The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1970
			* {{wplink}}

			[[Category:Ideologies]]

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	'''Communism''' is the political and economic doctrine that aims to replace [[private property]] and a [[profit]]-based economy with [[public ownership]] and communal control of at least the major means of [[production]] (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of '''[[socialism]]''' — a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists’ adherence to the revolutionary socialism of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name~~="Britannica_communism">Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism "communism (ideology)"], referenced 26 January, 2012~~.~~</ref>~~		'''Communism''' is another name for anarchy.

	~~{{See also\|Socialism}}~~		Nothing more.
	~~{{See also\|Economic calculation problem}}~~

	~~==History==~~
	Like most writers of the 19th century, Marx tended to use the terms communism and socialism interchangeably. In his ''Critique of the Gotha Programme'' (1875), however, Marx identified two phases of communism that would follow the predicted overthrow of [[capitalism]]: the first would be a transitional system in which the working class would control the government and economy yet still find it necessary to pay people according to how long, hard, or well they worked; the second would be fully realized communism—a society without class divisions or government, in which the production and distribution of goods would be based upon the principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Marx’s followers, especially the Russian revolutionary [[Vladimir Ilich Lenin]], took up this distinction.

	In ''State and Revolution'' (1917), Lenin asserted that socialism corresponds to Marx’s first phase of communist society and communism proper to the second. Lenin and the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party reinforced this distinction in 1918, the year after they seized power in Russia, by taking the name All-Russian Communist Party. Since then, communism has been largely, if not exclusively, identified with the form of political and economic organization developed in the [[Soviet Union]] and adopted subsequently in the [[People’s Republic of China]] and other countries ruled by communist parties.

	For much of the 20th century, in fact, about one-third of the world’s population lived under communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the rule of a single party that tolerated no opposition and little dissent. In place of a capitalist economy, in which individuals compete for profits, moreover, party leaders established a [[command economy]] in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. The inefficiency of these economies played a large part in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the remaining communist countries (excepting [[North Korea]]) are now allowing greater economic competition while holding fast to one-party rule. Whether they will succeed in this endeavour remains to be seen. Succeed or fail, however, communism is clearly not the world-shaking force it was in the 20th century.<ref name="Britannica_communism" />

	~~==The Soviet model==~~
	Traditionally, the main principles of socialism involved a commitment to equality, social justice, freedom, new opportunities for the poor, widening choice, respect for the individual and extending democracy. The Soviet model paid no more than lip service to any of these ideals. Soviet communism was not a classless society. Theoretically, under Marxism-Leninism, the working class was supposed to be dominant. The proletariat was the dynamic force that drove history, the textbooks said. The workers operated through a 'vanguard' - the Communist party.

	In practice, the leaders of the Communist Party sat at the top and did not trust the workers below. Leninists believed that the working class did not know what was in their best interest - they might, after all, if given the choice, allow the [[bourgeoisie]] to rule. So the Party would decide what was good for them.

	The basis of Soviet communism was the system known as '''[[nomenklatura]]''', which is how the Party maintained its power. It was an elaborate network of political patronage. Its result was that every important job in the country was held by a member of the Communist Party. Centrally and locally, a series of lists were maintained of all the positions that required Party membership - and of the people fit to hold them. This did not apply only to the top government and economic positions but in every field: judges, head teachers at big schools, managers of football clubs, the fire service bosses, senior army and police officers, newspaper editors, hospital administrators, college lecturers, theater and concert hall directors. The lists were enormous - in [[Czechoslovakia]], a country of about nine million people, there were something like 450.000 nomenklatura jobs in every conceivable walk of life. Politics became paramount.

	The Party enforced rigid hierarchical discipline on members rather like the army. The high ranks formed a closed elite, a self-perpetuating oligarchy. They had monopoly power and sole access to the fixed list of the to jobs. They rewarded themselves handsomely - luxurious houses, domestic staff, cars, the best medical care. They could travel occasionally to the West. They had access to a range of goods denied to others, from foodstuffs to furniture, at special shops where they paid with hard currency to which only they had access. Their children enjoyed all the class privileges of background and a relatively high standard of living. They went to the best schools and universities; they had far better job opportunities than the children of average workers. The children of the nomenklatura did very well - as long as they were obedient and faithful. The privileges depended on loyalty to the Party. One false step politically, and the job,the car, the nanny, the maidservant and cook, the children's university education, could all disappear overnight. Every rung of the Party ladder was formally required to execute the orders of the rung above, on the absolute Communist golden rule called, with no hint of irony, democratic centralism.<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall">Victor Sebestyen. "Revolution 1989: The Fall Of The Soviet Empire", p. 13-18. ISBN 978-0-7538-2709-3. Published in 2010. Referenced 2012-07-30.</ref>

	~~===Economic conditions===~~
	~~Unlike most religions, which offered rewards in heaven to come, communism promised earthly relief from miseries here and now. It was not delivering.~~

	The Soviet model was rigid. It was directed for political rather than economic ends, according to a centrally calculated Plan that bore no relation to the market. Prices and wages quickly turned out to be unrealistic, but no matter. They couldn't be changed because they were in the Plan, approved by the bureaucrats in the Party. It led to absurdities big and small. For example, there were no hairpins made in [[Poland]] throughout most of the 1970s. The Plan had of course been produced by men and no mention in it anywhere was made of hairpins, so there were none produced.

	For a couple of decades communism managed to provide the basics in most parts of Eastern Europe, though in some places only just. But even the showplace countries were never effective at providing consumer goods, which as time went on was what people wanted. From the mid-1960s the gap with the [[West]] began to widen, then grew further rapidly. From the start, the new Communist rulers made catastrophic mistakes. The worst was to try to turn light industrial and agricultural economies almost overnight into 'nations or iron and steel'. They did so because that is what Stalin had done in the [[USSR]] and the Soviet experience was dogma in all things. The obsession with heavy industry lasted throughout the Communist years. For most of them, the value of the natural resources mined and exported was considerably more than the finished goods produced in East European factories. Many manufactured products were made at a phenomenal loss.<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall" />

	~~===Corruption===~~
	Marxists argued that the absence of private property would abolish [[corruption]]. The opposite happened. In economies dominated by shortage, the only way to obtain a vast range of basic goods was through connections. A sophisticated system of [[barter]] and favors operated. If a doctor's family needed the fridge repaired an electrician, moonlighting almost certainly illegally from his normal work, would do the job in return for, say, a hospital appointment. A new part was needed for the fridge and there was only once place that could come from.

	Theft from workplace was common. An acute observer who knew many of the East European Part leaders thought that one of the worst aspects of communism was a new amorality. 'Many people believed embezzling from the state, from big frauds to petty larceny, was OK. It was argued it was even a way of fighting back, of resistance.'<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall" />

	~~==References==~~
	~~{{Reflist}}~~

	~~==Links==~~
	* [http://mises.org/daily/2652 The Death Camp of Communist China] by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., July 2007
	* [http://mises.org/daily/1832 Why do people vote for Communists?] by Luca Ferrini, June 2005
	* [http://mises.org/daily/352 The Black Book] by Ralph Reiland, December 1999
	* [http://mises.org/journals/jls/5_1/5_1_5.pdf War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom] (pdf) by Sheldon L. Richman, 1981
	* [http://mises.org/daily/4492 The Myth of Monolithic Communism] by Murray N. Rothbard, 1979
	* [http://mises.org/daily/2197 The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists] by Murray N. ~~Rothbard, 1970~~
	* {{wplink}}

	~~[[Category:Ideologies]]~~

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	For much of the 20th century, in fact, about one-third of the world’s population lived under communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the rule of a single party that tolerated no opposition and little dissent. In place of a capitalist economy, in which individuals compete for profits, moreover, party leaders established a [[command economy]] in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. The inefficiency of these economies played a large part in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the remaining communist countries (excepting [[North Korea]]) are now allowing greater economic competition while holding fast to one-party rule. Whether they will succeed in this endeavour remains to be seen. Succeed or fail, however, communism is clearly not the world-shaking force it was in the 20th century.<ref name="Britannica_communism" />		For much of the 20th century, in fact, about one-third of the world’s population lived under communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the rule of a single party that tolerated no opposition and little dissent. In place of a capitalist economy, in which individuals compete for profits, moreover, party leaders established a [[command economy]] in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. The inefficiency of these economies played a large part in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the remaining communist countries (excepting [[North Korea]]) are now allowing greater economic competition while holding fast to one-party rule. Whether they will succeed in this endeavour remains to be seen. Succeed or fail, however, communism is clearly not the world-shaking force it was in the 20th century.<ref name="Britannica_communism" />

			==The Soviet model==
			Traditionally, the main principles of socialism involved a commitment to equality, social justice, freedom, new opportunities for the poor, widening choice, respect for the individual and extending democracy. The Soviet model paid no more than lip service to any of these ideals. Soviet communism was not a classless society. Theoretically, under Marxism-Leninism, the working class was supposed to be dominant. The proletariat was the dynamic force that drove history, the textbooks said. The workers operated through a 'vanguard' - the Communist party.

			In practice, the leaders of the Communist Party sat at the top and did not trust the workers below. Leninists believed that the working class did not know what was in their best interest - they might, after all, if given the choice, allow the [[bourgeoisie]] to rule. So the Party would decide what was good for them.

			The basis of Soviet communism was the system known as '''[[nomenklatura]]''', which is how the Party maintained its power. It was an elaborate network of political patronage. Its result was that every important job in the country was held by a member of the Communist Party. Centrally and locally, a series of lists were maintained of all the positions that required Party membership - and of the people fit to hold them. This did not apply only to the top government and economic positions but in every field: judges, head teachers at big schools, managers of football clubs, the fire service bosses, senior army and police officers, newspaper editors, hospital administrators, college lecturers, theater and concert hall directors. The lists were enormous - in [[Czechoslovakia]], a country of about nine million people, there were something like 450.000 nomenklatura jobs in every conceivable walk of life. Politics became paramount.

			The Party enforced rigid hierarchical discipline on members rather like the army. The high ranks formed a closed elite, a self-perpetuating oligarchy. They had monopoly power and sole access to the fixed list of the to jobs. They rewarded themselves handsomely - luxurious houses, domestic staff, cars, the best medical care. They could travel occasionally to the West. They had access to a range of goods denied to others, from foodstuffs to furniture, at special shops where they paid with hard currency to which only they had access. Their children enjoyed all the class privileges of background and a relatively high standard of living. They went to the best schools and universities; they had far better job opportunities than the children of average workers. The children of the nomenklatura did very well - as long as they were obedient and faithful. The privileges depended on loyalty to the Party. One false step politically, and the job,the car, the nanny, the maidservant and cook, the children's university education, could all disappear overnight. Every rung of the Party ladder was formally required to execute the orders of the rung above, on the absolute Communist golden rule called, with no hint of irony, democratic centralism.<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall">Victor Sebestyen. "Revolution 1989: The Fall Of The Soviet Empire", p. 13-18. ISBN 978-0-7538-2709-3. Published in 2010. Referenced 2012-07-30.</ref>

			===Economic conditions===
			Unlike most religions, which offered rewards in heaven to come, communism promised earthly relief from miseries here and now. It was not delivering.

			The Soviet model was rigid. It was directed for political rather than economic ends, according to a centrally calculated Plan that bore no relation to the market. Prices and wages quickly turned out to be unrealistic, but no matter. They couldn't be changed because they were in the Plan, approved by the bureaucrats in the Party. It led to absurdities big and small. For example, there were no hairpins made in [[Poland]] throughout most of the 1970s. The Plan had of course been produced by men and no mention in it anywhere was made of hairpins, so there were none produced.

			For a couple of decades communism managed to provide the basics in most parts of Eastern Europe, though in some places only just. But even the showplace countries were never effective at providing consumer goods, which as time went on was what people wanted. From the mid-1960s the gap with the [[West]] began to widen, then grew further rapidly. From the start, the new Communist rulers made catastrophic mistakes. The worst was to try to turn light industrial and agricultural economies almost overnight into 'nations or iron and steel'. They did so because that is what Stalin had done in the [[USSR]] and the Soviet experience was dogma in all things. The obsession with heavy industry lasted throughout the Communist years. For most of them, the value of the natural resources mined and exported was considerably more than the finished goods produced in East European factories. Many manufactured products were made at a phenomenal loss.<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall" />

			===Corruption===
			Marxists argued that the absence of private property would abolish [[corruption]]. The opposite happened. In economies dominated by shortage, the only way to obtain a vast range of basic goods was through connections. A sophisticated system of [[barter]] and favors operated. If a doctor's family needed the fridge repaired an electrician, moonlighting almost certainly illegally from his normal work, would do the job in return for, say, a hospital appointment. A new part was needed for the fridge and there was only once place that could come from.

			Theft from workplace was common. An acute observer who knew many of the East European Part leaders thought that one of the worst aspects of communism was a new amorality. 'Many people believed embezzling from the state, from big frauds to petty larceny, was OK. It was argued it was even a way of fighting back, of resistance.'<ref name="Sebestyen_Fall" />

	==References==		==References==

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- Marxism was started by a German philosopher named Karl Marx, Marxism advocates statism, militarism, dictatorship,and totalitarianism. A common misconception exists that Friedrich Engels helped Marx write his works on Capitalism see : (freedom) this is not true, Karl Marx has split personality disorder along with various other mental issues, Engels was actually one of Marx's personalities. Marx had a fallout with this personality in 1848 which caused him to kill off this personality. Karl Marx advocated state-Atheism but he himself followed the religious school of Satanism. Karl Marx ousted the French government in a coup d'ete and held Parisians hostage for 6 months executing 970,000 people through the course of his bloody reign of terror.
+'''Communism''' is the political and economic doctrine that aims to replace [[private property]] and a [[profit]]-based economy with [[public ownership]] and communal control of at least the major means of [[production]] (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of '''[[socialism]]''' — a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists’ adherence to the revolutionary socialism of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name="Britannica_communism">Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism "communism (ideology)"], referenced 26 January, 2012.</ref>
- The second Marxist revolution occured in Russia notable figures include Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Zinoviev & Trotksy. Trotsky had waged a sucesful rebellion in Petrograd when it was coup'd by the Stalinists in 1918 the Stalinist faction was led by Lenin initially but Stalin killed Lenin while Lenin was sleeping in 1929 along with Zinoviev and Bukharin. Lenin's initail regime which only lasted 5 years killed 24 million people, Stalin took power afterwards and immediatly undid the NEP policy and prevented the USSR from indsutrializing leaving it a third world nation, Stalin orderd the genocide of Ukrainians and Kazakstanis in the 1930s which led to the deaths of 20 million people, Stalins gulag labor camps also killed 24,000,000 and ineffecient Soviet agricultrue (collectivism) starved 4,000,000,000. Stalin was an imperialist against the Polish, German, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Korean, Spanish, Greek & Ukrainian people. Leon Trotsky and Josef Broz Tito were self-proclaimed Communists but always served the forces of good (Capitalism) and the USA.
+{{See also|Socialism}}
- After 1945 a bloody Marxist revolution occured in China led by Mao Zedong, Zouh Enlai, Lin Biao, Deng Xioping, Liu Shaoqui & Kim Il Sung (who would form Marxist Kora) created the "People's" "republic" of "China", Chinese freedom fighters who fought for free elections. democratic reform as well as a fairer government escaped to Taiwan while others were killed for no reason without trial or a second thought. Mao launched the great leep forward that created a man-made engineered famine that killed 89,250,000 people by lowest estimates. And launched the cultural revolution which killed an additional 20,000,000 to serve his Stalinist agenda.
+==History==

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-'''Communism''' is the political and economic doctrine that aims to replace [[private property]] and a [[profit]]-based economy with [[public ownership]] and communal control of at least the major means of [[production]] (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of '''[[socialism]]''' — a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists’ adherence to the revolutionary socialism of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name="Britannica_communism">Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism "communism (ideology)"], referenced 26 January, 2012.</ref>
+ Marxism was started by a German philosopher named Karl Marx, Marxism advocates statism, militarism, dictatorship,and totalitarianism. A common misconception exists that Friedrich Engels helped Marx write his works on Capitalism see : (freedom) this is not true, Karl Marx has split personality disorder along with various other mental issues, Engels was actually one of Marx's personalities. Marx had a fallout with this personality in 1848 which caused him to kill off this personality. Karl Marx advocated state-Atheism but he himself followed the religious school of Satanism. Karl Marx ousted the French government in a coup d'ete and held Parisians hostage for 6 months executing 970,000 people through the course of his bloody reign of terror.
-{{See also|Socialism}}
+ The second Marxist revolution occured in Russia notable figures include Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Zinoviev & Trotksy. Trotsky had waged a sucesful rebellion in Petrograd when it was coup'd by the Stalinists in 1918 the Stalinist faction was led by Lenin initially but Stalin killed Lenin while Lenin was sleeping in 1929 along with Zinoviev and Bukharin. Lenin's initail regime which only lasted 5 years killed 24 million people, Stalin took power afterwards and immediatly undid the NEP policy and prevented the USSR from indsutrializing leaving it a third world nation, Stalin orderd the genocide of Ukrainians and Kazakstanis in the 1930s which led to the deaths of 20 million people, Stalins gulag labor camps also killed 24,000,000 and ineffecient Soviet agricultrue (collectivism) starved 4,000,000,000. Stalin was an imperialist against the Polish, German, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Korean, Spanish, Greek & Ukrainian people. Leon Trotsky and Josef Broz Tito were self-proclaimed Communists but always served the forces of good (Capitalism) and the USA.
-==History==
+ After 1945 a bloody Marxist revolution occured in China led by Mao Zedong, Zouh Enlai, Lin Biao, Deng Xioping, Liu Shaoqui & Kim Il Sung (who would form Marxist Kora) created the "People's" "republic" of "China", Chinese freedom fighters who fought for free elections. democratic reform as well as a fairer government escaped to Taiwan while others were killed for no reason without trial or a second thought. Mao launched the great leep forward that created a man-made engineered famine that killed 89,250,000 people by lowest estimates. And launched the cultural revolution which killed an additional 20,000,000 to serve his Stalinist agenda.

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- Marxism was started by a German philosopher named Karl Marx, Marxism advocates statism, militarism, dictatorship,and totalitarianism. A common misconception exists that Friedrich Engels helped Marx write his works on Capitalism see : (freedom) this is not true, Karl Marx has split personality disorder along with various other mental issues, Engels was actually one of Marx's personalities. Marx had a fallout with this personality in 1848 which caused him to kill off this personality. Karl Marx advocated state-Atheism but he himself followed the religious school of Satanism. Karl Marx ousted the French government in a coup d'ete and held Parisians hostage for 6 months executing 970,000 people through the course of his bloody reign of terror.
+'''Communism''' is the political and economic doctrine that aims to replace [[private property]] and a [[profit]]-based economy with [[public ownership]] and communal control of at least the major means of [[production]] (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of '''[[socialism]]''' — a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists’ adherence to the revolutionary socialism of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name="Britannica_communism">Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism "communism (ideology)"], referenced 26 January, 2012.</ref>
- The second Marxist revolution occured in Russia notable figures include Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Zinoviev & Trotksy. Trotsky had waged a sucesful rebellion in Petrograd when it was coup'd by the Stalinists in 1918 the Stalinist faction was led by Lenin initially but Stalin killed Lenin while Lenin was sleeping in 1929 along with Zinoviev and Bukharin. Lenin's initail regime which only lasted 5 years killed 24 million people, Stalin took power afterwards and immediatly undid the NEP policy and prevented the USSR from indsutrializing leaving it a third world nation, Stalin orderd the genocide of Ukrainians and Kazakstanis in the 1930s which led to the deaths of 20 million people, Stalins gulag labor camps also killed 24,000,000 and ineffecient Soviet agricultrue (collectivism) starved 4,000,000,000. Stalin was an imperialist against the Polish, German, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Korean, Spanish, Greek & Ukrainian people. Leon Trotsky and Josef Broz Tito were self-proclaimed Communists but always served the forces of good (Capitalism) and the USA.
+{{See also|Socialism}}
- After 1945 a bloody Marxist revolution occured in China led by Mao Zedong, Zouh Enlai, Lin Biao, Deng Xioping, Liu Shaoqui & Kim Il Sung (who would form Marxist Kora) created the "People's" "republic" of "China", Chinese freedom fighters who fought for free elections. democratic reform as well as a fairer government escaped to Taiwan while others were killed for no reason without trial or a second thought. Mao launched the great leep forward that created a man-made engineered famine that killed 89,250,000 people by lowest estimates. And launched the cultural revolution which killed an additional 20,000,000 to serve his Stalinist agenda.
+==History==
- Stalinism has made a reemergence in the United States since Obama took power.
+In ''State and Revolution'' (1917), Lenin asserted that socialism corresponds to Marx’s first phase of communist society and communism proper to the second. Lenin and the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party reinforced this distinction in 1918, the year after they seized power in Russia, by taking the name All-Russian Communist Party. Since then, communism has been largely, if not exclusively, identified with the form of political and economic organization developed in the [[Soviet Union]] and adopted subsequently in the [[People’s Republic of China]] and other countries ruled by communist parties.

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	Marxism was started by a German philosopher named Karl Marx, Marxism advocates statism, militarism, dictatorship, totalitarianism ~~and rape~~. A common misconception exists that Friedrich Engels helped Marx write his works on Capitalism see : (freedom) this is not true, Karl Marx has split personality disorder along with various other mental issues, Engels was actually one of Marx's personalities. Marx had a fallout with this personality in 1848 which caused him to kill off this personality. Karl Marx advocated state-Atheism but he himself followed the religious school of Satanism. Karl Marx ousted the French government in a coup d'ete and held Parisians hostage for 6 months executing 970,000 people through the course of his bloody reign of terror.		Marxism was started by a German philosopher named Karl Marx, Marxism advocates statism, militarism, dictatorship,and totalitarianism. A common misconception exists that Friedrich Engels helped Marx write his works on Capitalism see : (freedom) this is not true, Karl Marx has split personality disorder along with various other mental issues, Engels was actually one of Marx's personalities. Marx had a fallout with this personality in 1848 which caused him to kill off this personality. Karl Marx advocated state-Atheism but he himself followed the religious school of Satanism. Karl Marx ousted the French government in a coup d'ete and held Parisians hostage for 6 months executing 970,000 people through the course of his bloody reign of terror.

	The second Marxist revolution occured in Russia notable figures include Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Zinoviev & Trotksy. Trotsky had waged a sucesful rebellion in Petrograd when it was coup'd by the Stalinists in 1918 the Stalinist faction was led by Lenin initially but Stalin killed Lenin while Lenin was sleeping in 1929 along with Zinoviev and Bukharin. Lenin's initail regime which only lasted 5 years killed 24 million people, Stalin took power afterwards and immediatly undid the NEP policy and prevented the USSR from indsutrializing leaving it a third world nation, Stalin orderd the genocide of Ukrainians and Kazakstanis in the 1930s which led to the deaths of 20 million people, Stalins gulag labor camps also killed 24,000,000 and ineffecient Soviet agricultrue (collectivism) starved 4,000,000,000. Stalin was an imperialist against the Polish, German, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Korean, Spanish, Greek & Ukrainian people. Leon Trotsky and Josef Broz Tito were self-proclaimed Communists but always served the forces of good (Capitalism) and the USA.		The second Marxist revolution occured in Russia notable figures include Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Zinoviev & Trotksy. Trotsky had waged a sucesful rebellion in Petrograd when it was coup'd by the Stalinists in 1918 the Stalinist faction was led by Lenin initially but Stalin killed Lenin while Lenin was sleeping in 1929 along with Zinoviev and Bukharin. Lenin's initail regime which only lasted 5 years killed 24 million people, Stalin took power afterwards and immediatly undid the NEP policy and prevented the USSR from indsutrializing leaving it a third world nation, Stalin orderd the genocide of Ukrainians and Kazakstanis in the 1930s which led to the deaths of 20 million people, Stalins gulag labor camps also killed 24,000,000 and ineffecient Soviet agricultrue (collectivism) starved 4,000,000,000. Stalin was an imperialist against the Polish, German, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Korean, Spanish, Greek & Ukrainian people. Leon Trotsky and Josef Broz Tito were self-proclaimed Communists but always served the forces of good (Capitalism) and the USA.

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-'''Communism''' is the political and economic doctrine that aims to replace [[private property]] and a [[profit]]-based economy with [[public ownership]] and communal control of at least the major means of [[production]] (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of '''[[socialism]]''' — a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists’ adherence to the revolutionary socialism of [[Karl Marx]].<ref name="Britannica_communism">Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism "communism (ideology)"], referenced 26 January, 2012.</ref>
+ Marxism was started by a German philosopher named Karl Marx, Marxism advocates statism, militarism, dictatorship, totalitarianism and rape. A common misconception exists that Friedrich Engels helped Marx write his works on Capitalism see : (freedom) this is not true, Karl Marx has split personality disorder along with various other mental issues, Engels was actually one of Marx's personalities. Marx had a fallout with this personality in 1848 which caused him to kill off this personality. Karl Marx advocated state-Atheism but he himself followed the religious school of Satanism. Karl Marx ousted the French government in a coup d'ete and held Parisians hostage for 6 months executing 970,000 people through the course of his bloody reign of terror.
-{{See also|Socialism}}
+ The second Marxist revolution occured in Russia notable figures include Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Zinoviev & Trotksy. Trotsky had waged a sucesful rebellion in Petrograd when it was coup'd by the Stalinists in 1918 the Stalinist faction was led by Lenin initially but Stalin killed Lenin while Lenin was sleeping in 1929 along with Zinoviev and Bukharin. Lenin's initail regime which only lasted 5 years killed 24 million people, Stalin took power afterwards and immediatly undid the NEP policy and prevented the USSR from indsutrializing leaving it a third world nation, Stalin orderd the genocide of Ukrainians and Kazakstanis in the 1930s which led to the deaths of 20 million people, Stalins gulag labor camps also killed 24,000,000 and ineffecient Soviet agricultrue (collectivism) starved 4,000,000,000. Stalin was an imperialist against the Polish, German, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Korean, Spanish, Greek & Ukrainian people. Leon Trotsky and Josef Broz Tito were self-proclaimed Communists but always served the forces of good (Capitalism) and the USA.
-==History==
+ After 1945 a bloody Marxist revolution occured in China led by Mao Zedong, Zouh Enlai, Lin Biao, Deng Xioping, Liu Shaoqui & Kim Il Sung (who would form Marxist Kora) created the "People's" "republic" of "China", Chinese freedom fighters who fought for free elections. democratic reform as well as a fairer government escaped to Taiwan while others were killed for no reason without trial or a second thought. Mao launched the great leep forward that created a man-made engineered famine that killed 89,250,000 people by lowest estimates. And launched the cultural revolution which killed an additional 20,000,000 to serve his Stalinist agenda.
-In ''State and Revolution'' (1917), Lenin asserted that socialism corresponds to Marx’s first phase of communist society and communism proper to the second. Lenin and the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party reinforced this distinction in 1918, the year after they seized power in Russia, by taking the name All-Russian Communist Party. Since then, communism has been largely, if not exclusively, identified with the form of political and economic organization developed in the [[Soviet Union]] and adopted subsequently in the [[People’s Republic of China]] and other countries ruled by communist parties.
+ Stalinism has made a reemergence in the United States since Obama took power.