Has Marxism and Communism proved not to work?
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In its pure form, I don't think it will ever be successful.  Given human nature, if you get something for "free," there's no real incentive to work.  Capitalism isn't perfect, but it provides a method for those who are driven to reap some rewards.  There's the other side of the coin with providing social benefits in a limited form for those who really need it.  The problem is dividing up those who need it and those are being taking advantage of the system and being lazy.
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Yes, it probably will be a major force again someday.  We historians have a quote we live by: "The only thing we learn from History is that we don't learn anything from History."  Ideologies like communism never die because people forget what happened before them.  There are still people who believe in it as the way to stop world strife.  They often claim that Soviet communism just wasn't "done right" or that it has to be tried worldwide to be successful (communism can't survive copmetition which should make one wonder if it is a viable system to begin with).  Every ideology has its true believers and someday, communists will get an upper hand in some unfortunate nation where they'll wreck havoc for a couple of generations before being tossed aside again.
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it's A Communism. I am not really sure on this one so please give me feed back.
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Absolutely not. Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production.  In theory, wouldn't it be great to live in a society where education, medical treatment and living costs were all free?  Greed is what causes communism to fail when it is put into practice, but then greed is also what causes democracy to fail in its own aspects.\n\nHowever, many of the major Communists like Marx, Stalin, Mao, and Lenin were all very intelligent people.
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First of all, Communism has never truly been achieved.  Communism is Karl Marx's idea on how to control the masses which he wrote about in his book "Communist Manifesto".  It involves everybody working for everybody, no religion, and an overall unified society.  Socialism is what was seen in the Former Soviet Union, in China now.  It involves ideas of everybody working for the whole, but is a very far cry from Communism.  To Compare to the United States: liberals and extreme leftists are socialists.
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You mean communism?  If so it was practiced in Soviet Union(Russia) and in its satalite countries(mostly Eastern Europe nations controlled by the Soviets), but spread into Vietnam and China where it still is today.
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You can cover a pretty large area with that question.  Both depend on media to get out their message, and they use various forms of media like protests, news events, editorials, union meetings, one on one meetings.  Marxism has a very interesting history with the media in that communist nations have often used the media and restricted the media in order to shape how people view the success of the communists and to prevent opposition to the communists.
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Well... one of the key features of Marxist Commnism (referring to German writer Karl Marx who published Communist Manifesto in 1848 to rally Socialists under a Communist banner), social classes were eliminated.  This happened to a lower degree under Lenin and Stalin in 20th cent. USSR
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First, I don't think all Liberals are "Commies."\n\nBecause Rush took drugs, is it fair to say that ALL conservatives are drug addicts?  Because ... well, there are so many things liberals and conservatives have done that could never label the WHOLE party/lib.con.agenda.\n\nSecondly, the fundamentals behind Marx's idea of Communism are actually inspiring, and were meant to make the people free and equal.  You should read them.  I know we've been practically bred to shudder at the word "communism," but if you really knew what it was all about, you wouldn't quake quite so much.\n\nIt hasn't worked yet, I'll agree with you on that.  Countries that have embraced communism have seen huge economic failure.  I think part of the reason is that they are not supported (for aforementioned fears) and also because the nature of "leaders" is so often corrupted.  Sad, but true.  When someone takes control of a country or takes office, the powers they wield make them do crazy things.
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Communism is almost non-existant in developed countries. Although during the Soviet reign, they have split Germany in half, which I guess- you could call a crime. Look into Ronald Reagan and the Brandenburg Gate, he had an address there, against the Soviets, very powerful.
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Marx. By the way, how's that philosophy workin' out for the world?
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Marx wasnt a conservative, communism is extreme liberalism\n\n\nand yes it is
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Whatever. Just so long as the Communist (Democrat) Party DOESN'T.\n\nHey! Just compare the Communist Manifesto with the Democrat Party Platform. They are eerily similar!
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There has yet to be a functional government that was actually communistic, and very few socialistic ones that lasted more than a couple of years, no matter what they advertised themselves as being.\n\nI'll take free enterprise any day, over socialism, communism, capitalism or fascism all of which have the unity of government control of business as a shared sin.
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I don't see how it could unless its a hypothetical question where reality is ignored.  In todays world look at all the countrys where there is Communism-Cuba,North Korea ,Vietnam, Russia, China and economically from the ones I mentioned only one is doing well-that being China. Cuba , North Korea and Russia have a very high Unemployment rate,  in North Korea there is widespread famine among the people while the leader enjoys shark fin soup and has his every whim fulfilled, in Russia  crime is out of bounds with the Mafia having a firm grasp.  Compare these countrie to the ones that have a socialistic type of Goverment - Germany, in fact most of the European Countries and although life is not perfect evryone makes do-unemployment is at a  acceptable levels  and all the peole lead  satisfying lives with ,because it is socialistic,all having access to healthcare. Socialism simply means that the people financially support their country by taxes and also reap the benfits.  Considering the ridiculou high cost of medical care in this country socialized medicine is one of the options being considered to solve this crisi.  Communism in theory-all share equally- is good but has never worked on a larage ascale for in very country that its been put in place the people in power soon get corrupted simply because all the power is theirs and the people are put secondary to their wants.  Socialism is where  the goverment works on the same basias democracy-people vote into power those they wish to govern but there are more laws that govern their everyday lives and there are more benefits like healthcare available to  all comparable to PPO's but private insurance is also available for those who wish it.  Goverment does influence more the daily lives but freedoms are still   comparable as those in a  democracy.
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No.!!!\nNobody has ever practised Communism the way that Karl Marx visualised, as they say my donkey stays my donkey.!!!\nWhat is yours is mine. what is mine stays mine.\nHypocrites is what they all where, thieves and liars while the people suffered.!!!
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China, Cuba, Venzula,Mozembeque are a few.\n\nA communist country as defined by marx in the communist manefesto has not and will not exsist