Communism: Ideas And Teachings Of Karl Marx
Communism
Summer Course
July 6th, 2012
1784 words
Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx. The ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. This means that the state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite known as the Soviet model of communism which was based on these ideals. All of the opposition parties were banned unlike the parties who were sympathetic to communism and shared the communist ideals was allowed. All of the power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party causing free press and civil liberties to become suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were …show more content…
These contradictions will eventually cause its own destruction. In the Capitalist society the bourgeoisie creates the proletariat class so that they have people to labor in their industries. The proletariat works under harsh conditions, but because it has the means to associate through politics, their political awareness increases. When the need is met, conditions are created that is necessary for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie class. Marx notes, “What the bourgeoisie, therefore produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. It falls and victory of the proletariat is equally inevitable” Human history unfolds that lead to an end in history- a Utopian endpoint. This “endpoint” would occur as a result of the establishment of Communism, which would end all class …show more content…
This was a propagandistic book based on an idealistic view of communism and its leaders. The mass arrests, the truth of the purges and the labor camps were not allowed to be discussed in the media. People were simply not allowed to form any opinion contrary to that of the communist state. People were also not allowed to choose their own religion or follow their own personal religious beliefs. The state outlawed and censored religious "propaganda" and publications. The Soviet state actively and brutally persecuted the churches in which a large number of these were desecrated or destroyed. More than half of all monasteries were forced to close and in 1921 twenty-eight bishops were arrested or died in violent clashes with the Soviet
Summer Course
July 6th, 2012
1784 words
Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx. The ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. This means that the state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite known as the Soviet model of communism which was based on these ideals. All of the opposition parties were banned unlike the parties who were sympathetic to communism and shared the communist ideals was allowed. All of the power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party causing free press and civil liberties to become suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were …show more content…
These contradictions will eventually cause its own destruction. In the Capitalist society the bourgeoisie creates the proletariat class so that they have people to labor in their industries. The proletariat works under harsh conditions, but because it has the means to associate through politics, their political awareness increases. When the need is met, conditions are created that is necessary for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie class. Marx notes, “What the bourgeoisie, therefore produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. It falls and victory of the proletariat is equally inevitable” Human history unfolds that lead to an end in history- a Utopian endpoint. This “endpoint” would occur as a result of the establishment of Communism, which would end all class …show more content…
This was a propagandistic book based on an idealistic view of communism and its leaders. The mass arrests, the truth of the purges and the labor camps were not allowed to be discussed in the media. People were simply not allowed to form any opinion contrary to that of the communist state. People were also not allowed to choose their own religion or follow their own personal religious beliefs. The state outlawed and censored religious "propaganda" and publications. The Soviet state actively and brutally persecuted the churches in which a large number of these were desecrated or destroyed. More than half of all monasteries were forced to close and in 1921 twenty-eight bishops were arrested or died in violent clashes with the Soviet