[[Image:Captive-nations-01b----07-19-06.jpg|thumbnail|150px|right|A monument to the Captive Nations stands at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation .]]'''Communism''' is an ideology which seeks to create a classless, utopian society through the abolition of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] market system. In practice, however, its implemenation has been far from utopian, and Communist governments have cost over 100 million lives. One-fifth of the world's people are still under Communist rule, the vast majority of whom live in the [[People's Republic of China]]. | [[Image:Captive-nations-01b----07-19-06.jpg|thumbnail|150px|right|A monument to the Captive Nations stands at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation .]]'''Communism''' is an ideology which seeks to create a classless, utopian society through the abolition of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] market system. In practice, however, its implemenation has been far from utopian, and Communist governments have cost over 100 million lives. One-fifth of the world's people are still under Communist rule, the vast majority of whom live in the [[People's Republic of China]]. |