Communism is sometimes called "scientific socialism" which means you can implement the ideology in scientific ways, which can be in different way that you can scientifically perform it. It is actually a form of socialism in its final stage, where social equality can be fully performed and everyone is treated equal without class, race or even religion. That's why most communist countries are banning religions.

The huge different between socialism and Communism (defined by Marxists) is the separation of "socialism," a society ruled by workers, and "communism," a classless society.

Practitioners of Communism have their own ways of implementing Communism. And yeah, there were communists (not Communist, we should know the differences now) states, but that's is a general collective name for the countries that applied the ways of implemented Communism e.g. Maoist, Marxists-Leninist, Stalinist and even Juche (DPRK). There even religious and non-Marxist form Communism like anarcho-communism and Christian-communism. There even some that combined communism/socialism with right wing politics like racial fascism e.g. Nazi party in German circa WWII, even though in practice they never implemented that.

If you read Karl Marx Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, you'd come to your sense that Communism can be fully achieved after the all the human basic needs are fulfilled. In reality, this is very hard to achieve but it is not impossible.

Basically, there are two ways to implement communism

a) Revolution - via firepower, coup, war
b) Democratic solution - by winning election and changing the state's constitution (sometimes called anti-revolutionary) to most of the time single ideology parties (not to be confused with single-party state) - commonly known as Workers' Parties or Communist Parties.

Hence, there is no actual ideological barriers that Communism must defeat Capitalism. You can still achieve communism with a strong economy, and especially when you have a strong economy.

On the other hands, the ideology does not fail. It is the implementation that fails. Unfortunately, Communist leaders in the past eventually became dictators, autocratic and somewhat ruthless.

We forget that human nature has corruption and madness on the its list too. Even capitalism can collapse when there are corrupt people around. I don't have to give the examples, you should know this already.

Human aren't perfect even they have perfect ideas.

It's not wrong to embrace either Communism or Capitalism. It is the way how you implement and taking care of it.


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This is how the Marxists view Capitalism | Soviet Propaganda "Workers (People) and Army are one"

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This post has been edited by dopodplaya: Dec 17 2009, 12:47 PM