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[[Image:Captive-nations-01b----07-19-06.jpg|thumbnail|180px|right|A monument to the Captive Nations stands at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.]]

[[Image:Captive-nations-01b----07-19-06.jpg|thumbnail|180px|right|A monument to the Captive Nations stands at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.]]

'''Communism''' is a political system based on [[Karl Marx]]'s proposed establishment of a "classless society." Communist movements and governments have manifested themselves in many different forms, however no Communist country has yet achieved its stated goal of creating a classless society (often called "small-c communism"); each has been dominated by a self appointed ''[[Nomenklatura]]''.

'''Communism''' is an [[atheistic]] [[political]] system which eliminates the right to own [[private property]].

It is based on [[Karl Marx]]'s proposed establishment of a "classless society", but its philosophical basis is so deeply flawed that no Communist country has ever achieved its stated goal of creating a classless society (often called "small-c communism"); each has been dominated by a self appointed ''[[Nomenklatura]]''.