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[[Image:Captive-nations-01b----07-19-06.jpg|thumbnail|180px|left|A monument to the Captive Nations stands at the Victims The idea of Communism Memorial Foundation in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]Communism communism is based upon [[Marxism]]that every one must be equal, a philosophy which uses [[materialism]] to explain all physical and social phenomena. The theory of [[evolution]] influenced the thinking of the Communists, including Marx, [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin]]free, and [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=276</ref> Marx wrote, "[[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s book is very important and serves me as have a basis in natural science for the [[class struggle]] in historygood living." Marx offered It also requires that everyone must contribute to dedicate the second German edition of his polemic "Das Kapital" to [[Charles Darwin]]society (capitalists do so as well, for everyone does, but Darwin declined the "honour." <ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=276</ref> <ref>Karl Marx's Social and Political Thoughtin a selfish, Bob Jessop, ISBN 0415193265 (pg 476)</ref> Economically, communism advocates a [[socialist]] economy in which the government owns the [[means of production]]twisted sense. In countries where communism has been imposedAs to why, the government has taken ownership of farms, factories, stores and so on in the name of the people; see capitalists "[[dictatorship of the proletariat]]contribute". This drives all [[free market|market-based]] economic activity underground and leads to inefficiencies and shortages. In both the Soviet Union and Red Chinasociety as well, the number of people who starved to death when the government confiscated their farm products (animals and grain) is estimated but in the tens of millions. Even more important, one party controls every organization from the local labor union to the the army to the national government. The party is not elected. Its top officials (the "Politburo"end it benefits them only) select replacements when there is a vacancy. usually a dictator (like Stalin, Mao by using his or Castro) controls the Politburo, but sometimes power is shared among five her ability to produce goods or six people. No dissent is allowed--all news media are controlled, and wealth for the Internet is heavily censored.  Elites do not disappear. Members betterment of the ruling party (see [[Nomenklatura]]) have special stores in which ordinary people are barred, stores which are allegedly immune to the shortages which the lower class must enduresociety. Various communist doctrines have evolved or been adapted to the time and place they have been implemented. Marxism, developed This attitude is as old as mankind but it was given a name by [[Karl Marx]]. In theory, and its modifications under [[Vladimir Ilyich Lenin| Vladimir Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Mao Zedong]], advocates the overthrow of the existing order by a revolution of the proletariatstateless, the social group classless society in which does not control the means of production. The goal of Marxism is supposedly collectively owned and goods and services are freely distributed according to create a classless society which would result in no longer the need for any [[government]] (Communism). The most famous government to label itself "communist" is the former [[USSR]] or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; the Communist Party controlled its government from 1918 to 1991. This government was officially [[atheist]] and attempted to suppress all religion until World War II, when it discovered religion was needed to rally the people against the Nazi invaders. Like all authoritarian regimes, it tried to cultivate reverence for the state as a psychological substitute for religion.  Marxist theory is intended oppose to appeal to its adherents with the phrase, "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs", which essentially states point blank a worker does not get paid according to his abilities, and there is no [[incentive]] within the economic theory. Another quote by Marx was, "The theory of the Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property," wealth or as some have phrased it, legalized theftsocial status.