Why Did Communism Fail

This paper will be about why communism failed originally, not because communism was ideal, but because of other factors. First, the Soviet Union never reached communism. Stalin’s regime began to take control in the 1920’s, and then Soviet Union the era of Stalinism, not communism. Communism was based upon the theory of an economic Utopia, where all wealth is shared and distributed equally, with no personal ownership. The theory, devised by Karl Marx, espouses that human greed can be eliminated by changing human nature, which can be belief that extenuating circumstances could change the basic individual characteristics. The communist structure is replaced by the ruling elite, which in theory should be a governing authority with people’s best