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[[Image:HammerAndSickle.png|thumb|left|200px|The [[hammer and sickle]] is the main communist symbol the hammer symbolizing industry and the sickle representing industry it is the symbol for the "unification" of the workers.]]

[[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 in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]

'''Communism''' is a materialistic and militantly atheistic ideology created to justify the overthrow of [[Capitalism]], replacing [[free market]] economics and [[democracy]] with a "[[dictatorship of the proletariat]]". Under Communism, the [[political]] system replaces the [[private property|private ownership]] of the [[means of production]] with "[[collective ownership]]" (actually [[nationalization]]).

'''Communism''' is a materialistic and militantly atheistic ideology created to justify the overthrow of [[Capitalism]], replacing [[free market]] economics and [[democracy]] with a "[[dictatorship of the proletariat]]". Under Communism, the [[political]] system replaces the [[private property|private ownership]] of the [[means of production]] with "[[collective ownership]]" (actually [[nationalization]]).

==Communist theory and practice==

==Communist theory and practice==

[[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 in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]

 

[[Image:HammerAndSickle.png|thumb|left|200px|The [[hammer and sickle]] is considered throughout much of the world to be offensive in the same manner as the [[swastika]] is.]]

Communism is based upon [[Marxism]], a philosophy which uses [[materialism]] to explain all physical and social phenomena.   

Communism is based upon [[Marxism]], a philosophy which uses [[materialism]] to explain all physical and social phenomena.