Communism

Hello friends, communism, capitalism, socialism and liberalism, you must have heard these words quite often. But do you know the real meaning of these ideologies in its true sense? What has been their impact on our world? What are their advantages and disadvantages? 

In todays blog I will try to explain communism. What is communism and communist ideology?

In one sentence, communism means "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Meaning a society, where every person works according to his ability and gets according to his needs. If one person is more fit, muscular and can lift heavyweight, then he works according to his ability. If another person is a little weak, disable and cannot work extensively, then he too works according to his ability and contributes towards society. And such a society where every person gets things according to his need.

 But Communism is basically a society or you can say that it is a way of structuring people where is no money. It is a moneyless society. It is a stateless society. There are no countries. No borders have been drawn between countries. And it is a classless society with zero discrimination between the rich and poor. Such a society where the means of production such as land, farms, industries, factories, all of them are operated and owned by the labourers, by the common public. Whenever we heard the word Communism, Karl Marx, the Soviet Union and countries like China come to our mind. But in reality, if you go through the basic definition of Communism, the fundamental ideas of Communism are actually thousands of years old. 

Karl Marx is called the father of Communism. He was a German Philosopher who published the Communist Manifesto in 1848.

But there are also some failures of Communism. The biggest problem of Communism in my opinion lies in its basic definition. As I said, every person will work according to his ability but will get things according to his need. Now think about it yourself. If I am a fit and healthy person and I am working really hard according to my ability but what do I get in return? I get the same thing whatever everyone else is getting. If I work less then also I will get the same payment. No reason exists to improve my work. What will I get if I am more efficient and innovative? I will get nothing extra. Now think about it, if every person living in society starts thinking like this, no competition will exist in the society. There will be no development in technology or in any other field. This is quite philosophical reason behind the failure of Communism. Except this, there are many other practical reasons too behind the failures of Communism. 

The communism of Karl Marx with probably be the best for everybody as a whole. But what we didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.