I Will Bore You !!!

Honestly, this has to be said, Marxist Communism was actually a good idea. A society with no state, no private property and no social classes....whats so wrong with that? Everyone is on the same playing field, all property is owned by the community as a whole, and all people enjoy equal social and economic status. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." I'm not saying that it would work, because clearly it wouldn't. I mean why would you want to be a doctor when you get paid pretty much the same as a trash man. There is no way you could control the economy.

The basic premise of Marxism is this, throughout history we have seen social situations give way to new ones mostly through uprisings and class struggle. Such as the slave-based system of the ancient world gave way to feudalsim which eventually gave way to capitalism, now Marx beleived that the next step would be an overturning of a capitalistic society by a socialist society and then a gradual fall into Communism or a one class system - which he believed was a good thing.

Unfortunetly Communism got a bad rap by the 20th century dictators. Most of these "communist states" never really made the transition from socialism to communism. This is pretty much the fault of Joseph Stalin and Stalinism who pretty much got his methods from the ideas of Lenin.

Here's where Communism really got crazy, although Vladimir Lenin agreed on the idea of communism he really didn't like Marx and his methods. While Marx thought that society would gradually move from Socialism into Communism, Lenin thought that Socialism could only be overthtrown by a revolution under the strong arm of a Communist Party. As the 1900's approached some communist countries had already been socialistic, but the rest of the world never turned from Capitalism in Socialism as Marx predicted. Now Leninism turns it's eye to the world with it's plan for world revolution. Force was now needed throughout the world in order to begin the process of overthrowing those countries still using capitalism and to move them towards socialism, with the final aim of reaching communism. From this idea was born the brutal hand of Joseph Stalin who thrust the world into the beginning of the Cold War.

If they only stuck with the original idea of Marxism then all that crap would have been avoided, Communism still would have failed, but it wouldn't have affected the rest of the world. So what am I saying? Don't knock Marx, he had a good idea, look at the Amish....they are true communists. And they are...um...cool??? I guess. Whatever...i just hate being low-class. I want an even playing field.