Communism
- All men are equal
- Classless, moneyless, revolutionary socialist society
- redistribution based on needs- different types of property
Real (land) property, intellectual (copyrights and patents) - intangible
- Elimination of private property- liberal western idea
- Equality- autonomy
- Comes from Karl Marx and Ingels
- from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs
- human nature is collectivity

Socialism is the same thing except socialism recognizes private property.

Communism has never happened- many leaders have intentionally misused this term.
ESSAYS: Be able to distinguish between theory vs. practice: beliefs and ideologies vs. what leaders really do. Historians focus on how and why things CHANGE- Emancipation, Russian Revolutions- causes and effects.

According to Karl Marx, communism was Marxism:
- predicting the future- not detailed concept
- Communist manifesto was written in 1848: industrialization, urbanization, increasing population and literacy rates- life was not good for the average person. Because of this, Marxist ideas were attractive to ideas because society would take care of you.
- Anarchist: no government because human beings will get along and act to benefit society.
- Organized religion is not good because it keeps people down: people were attracted to heaven, now people are attracted to this ideology.
- From Germany- highly industrialized state= Westerner writing about his understanding of history and what he sees the future as.
- Completely centered around social class
- Marxist-Leninist is very different- goes against Marxist ideas
- What Bolsheviks did was not true Marxism
- According to Marx, communism is the last step of Marxism- how human beings will evolve to someday, but this step was not described in detail because it was a THEORY.
- Bolsheviks took power with the promise of a utopia- 3 generations of “promise” in the future. Although it was supposed to be a utopia for the proletariats, the working class is where the change came from.
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- Bolsheviks “won”


By: Greta Hiestand