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If you go around most of today countries and ask people if the want their countries to be a Communist country, almost everyone will say, "No, I want Democracy" or, "No, I want my freedom." When thinking about Communism, people think of two things: Tyranny and that everyone receives the same no matter how much he or she work. However, as a matter of fact, both of those are wrong.

Before exploring more into this subject, I believe I should explain something. First, to a true Communist, especially one who is from the USSR or China or Vietnam, there are no Communist countries ever existed. A true Communist country is out of reach for current human state. Every Communist country is, if you read its name, Socialist. We should distinguish those two definition, or everything will be confused.
The True Communist Society is what Karl Marx described. It is the dream of many philosophers, thinkers, and leaders. It is where everyone is truly free. Think about it, are you free? In a Capitalist Society, people are never free a single second. They are pushed into an urge to buy, to consume, then to work to have the money to buy and consume. People in Capitalist Society are not free at all. They have the feeling that they are free. Think about trends, think about fashions, think about fears. All of them are psychology weapons of firms to make people buy. In a True Communist Society, firm, the only one firm, has no urge for profit. It has not need to scare you to death to force you to buy. It has no need to compete for power to make you buy. It has no need to create trends and fashions to persuade you that you need to buy. The people are free. Because they are free, they only get what they need. Therefore, the amount of goods which the Society can produce and the amount wanted are equal, and the everyone needs not to buy, they just get what they want. In that Society, no one has more influence than any other one. Even the Government is no more needed. However, freedom is not free. To get such a great and beautiful Society, human sanity must be in a different level. People must have another kind of urge: urge to work. They must love to work, they must find that working is great, they must compete to work. They are working not for money, for promotion but for the sake of working itself. They work for a higher cause of their lives, i.e. their Society, their loved ones, their future generations. When people have that kind of urge, when people feel that working is not a duty, but

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