by madmatt

Created on: February 07, 2007   Last Updated: May 08, 2007

The Problem with Communism

Communism, called "Revolutionary Proletarian Socialism" or "Marxism," was created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in an effort to provoke the people to the point of insurrection. Its deeper reason was to eliminate the upper and lower classes, thereby replacing them with a single class of uniformly equal individuals. Communism does achieve its goal; however, is creates a uniformly poor class that does not equalize itself on a common middle ground. The Communist Manifesto, a book outlining Engles and Marx's ideas, embodies ten necessary points of government and law, called "planks:"

Communism is famed to be the abolition of the lower and upper classes. It is advertised as enriching the civility within a social order; however, it destroys society. It is a well documented historical fact that communism brings with it death, destruction, and ruin. Advocates of Marxism attempt to exonerate communism by pointing out how communist leaders have forsaken the true teachings of Karl Marx; however, it cannot be denied refuted that communism has on more than one occasion brought with is the above mentioned horrors simply as a result of its existence and implementationregardless of the intentions or nature of its leaders. That said, though, the leaders of communism tend to be inherently evil, and that certainly says something about communism itself.

Often there is a correlation drawn between a religion (like Christianity) and communism. Communism is described as decent and good at its very core, and just like religion, has brought with it the evil of inherently evil men. This is true, but communism has brought nothing but evil, religion at least has a record of some good. In addition, communism does not acknowledge the evil nature of men at all, while religion acknowledges the existence of that inherent evil and creates a system of repentance and change. Communism fails to recognize the existence of evil, and underestimates the drive of men to improve their individual status over that of the population as a whole. In a system of government, communism brings no good change, but instead the ruin of poverty and the oppression of government controlled society.

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