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Essay: Economic Failures of Communism (view source)
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Communist theory divides society into two primary economic classes: owners and workers, or sometimes called the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Communism claims to be seeking the advancement of the downtrodden workers, called the proletariat.
Communist theory divides society into two primary economic classes: owners and workers, or sometimes called the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Communism claims to be seeking the advancement of the downtrodden workers, called the proletariat.
These ideas originate from Karl Marx (1818-1883) and were subsequently advanced by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), and then further developed by Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, among others. These authors have advanced an evolving critique of Capitalism that suggests Communism as the only answer, and sometimes the inevitable answer.
These ideas originate from Karl Marx (1818-1883) and were subsequently advanced by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), and then further developed by Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, among others. These authors have advanced an evolving critique of Capitalism that suggests Communism as the only answer, and sometimes the inevitable answer, to the supposed inconsistencies of Capitalism.
History has repeatedly proven these individuals wrong. Empirical evidence has repeatedly shown Communism to be a complete failure as an economic model, and that in practice it primarily serves as a political critique that leads to strife and division within a society, and serves as a theory to govern a nation with totalitarian policies driven by a desire for power over any other consideration.
History has repeatedly proven these individuals wrong. Empirical evidence has repeatedly shown Communism to be a failure as an economic model, and that in practice it primarily serves as a political critique that leads to strife and division within a society, and serves as a theory to govern a nation with totalitarian policies driven by a desire for power over any other consideration.
==Key Failed Communist Economic Assumptions:==
==Key Failed Communist Economic Assumptions:==
* Black Markets
* Black Markets
* Centralization
* Centralization
* Corruption
* Credit Markets Abolished
* Credit Markets Abolished
* Hyperinflation
* Hyperinflation
Communist countries have murdered nearly 100 million people through a variety of methods, including: executions, assassinations, incarceration, overwork, starvation.
Communist countries have murdered nearly 100 million people through a variety of methods, including: executions, assassinations, incarceration, overwork, starvation.
Communist countries are almost defined by their reduced economic output and inefficiencies.
The malaise and backwardness of Communist countries is why many flee or defect from such countries to the more prosperous West. The West guaranteed religious freedom, absence of political persecution, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and free markets. Those freedoms inspired people to risk their lives to escape Communist rule in dramatic instances such as those who tried to escape Berlin, the Vietnamese 'boat people' who fled from Communist rule, North Korean defectors and refugees, among many others.
Communist countries are chronically experiencing reduced economic output and inefficiencies.
Over the past 40 years, China has notably attempted to escape the systemic and structural backwardness of communist economic thought to avoid the same fate. China's economy has largely been subsidized by slave labor and industrialization policies, though it still suffers from a great deal of central planning mistakes, corruption, crime, and black markets.
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