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Communism (from Latin: communis = “common”) is a family of economic and political ideas and social movements related to the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, or stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general, as well as the name given to such a society.[1][2][3] The term “Communism”, usually spelled with the capital letter C, is however often used to refer to a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declares allegiance to Marxism-Leninism or a derivative thereof, even if the party does not actually claim that the society has already reached communism.
Forerunners of communist ideas existed in antiquity and particularly in the 18th and early 19th century France, with thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the more radical Gracchus Babeuf. Radical egalitarianism then emerged as a significant political power in the first half of 19th century in Western Europe. In the world shaped by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, the newly established political left included many various political and intellectual movements, which are the direct ancestors of today’s communism and socialism – these two then newly minted words were almost interchangeable at the time – and of anarchism or anarcho-communism. The two most influential theoreticians of communism of the 19th century were Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), who also helped to form the first openly communist political organisations and firmly tied communism with the idea of working class revolution conducted by the exploited proletariat (or the working class). Marx posited that communism would be the final stage in human society, which would be achieved after an intermediate stage called socialism, and through the temporary and revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Communism in the Marxist sense refers to a classless, stateless, and oppression-free society where decisions on what to produce and what policies to pursue are made directly and democratically, allowing every member of society to participate in the decision-making process in both the political and economic spheres of life. Some “revisionist” Marxists of the following generations, henceforth known as reformists or social democrats, have slowly drifted away from the revolutionary views of Marx, instead arguing for a gradual parliamentary road to socialism; other communists, such as Rosa Luxemburg or Vladimir Lenin, continued to agitate and argue for world revolution.
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were brought to power by the Russian Revolution of 1917, where the Tsarist regime disrupted by World War I was smashed by the world’s first workers revolution. After years of civil war (1917–1921), international isolation, erosion of the soviets (workers and peasants’ councils) and internal struggle within the Bolshevik leadership, the Soviet Union was founded (1922). Lenin died after a second stroke in 1924, and despite of his warnings was succeeded by Joseph Stalin. Once in power, Stalin carried out multiple purges of dissidents and left communists/opposition, particularly of those around Leon Trotsky, and established the character of Communism as the totalitarian ideology it is most commonly known as and referred to today. The Soviet Union emerged as a new global superpower on the victorious side of World War II. In the five years after the World War, Communist regimes were established in many states of Central and Eastern Europe and in China. Communism began to spread its influence in the Third World while continuing to be a significant political force in many Western countries. International relations between the Soviet Bloc and the West, led by USA, quickly worsened after the end of the war and the Cold War began, a continuing state of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and those countries’ respective allies. The “Iron curtain” between West and East then divided Europe and world from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Despite many Communist successes like the victorious Vietnam War (1959-1975) or the first human spaceflight (1961), the Communist regimes were ultimately unable to keep up with their Western rivals. People under Communist regimes showed their discontent in events like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Prague Spring of 1968 or Polish Solidarity movement in early 1980s, most of which were ironically led by or included masses of workers. After 1985, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to implement market and democratic reforms under policies like perestroika (“restructuring”) and glasnost (“transparency”). His reforms sharpened internal conflicts in the Communist regimes and quickly led to the Revolutions of 1989 and a total collapse of European Communist regimes outside of the Soviet Union, which itself dissolved two years later (1991). Some Communist regimes outside of Europe have survived to this day, the most important of them being the People’s Republic of China, whose Socialism with Chinese characteristics attempts to introduce market reforms without western style democratisation and with the introduction of new capitalist and middle classes.
as if you read all of that
K nobody reads all that! I saw all those words and I scrolled down but theres ANOTHER one. GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!
I’ve read it. It’s absolutely a waste of time. Since I couldn’t sleep, i just read itXD
I am writing this letter to persuade you that Parry137 flaunts his personal paroxysms and attitudes in front of everyone else. I will persuade you of this by providing a few examples and illustrations of the way in which Parry137 seeks to establish tacit boundaries and ground rules for the permissible spectrum of opinion. Before I start, however, I should state that to understand what his particularly pouty form of Fabianism has encompassed as a movement and as a system of rule, we have to look at its historical context and development as a form of damnable politics that first arose in early twentieth-century Europe in response to rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Let’s be honest here: He has had some success in turning politicasters loose against us good citizens. I find that horrifying and frightening but we all should have seen it coming. We all knew that if I have a bias, it is only against sanctimonious freeloaders who incite racial hatred. There are some detestable dirtbags out there who care nothing for you or your cherished declamations. This is equivalent to saying that Parry137 has planted his proxies everywhere. You can find them in businesses, unions, activist organizations, tax-exempt foundations, professional societies, movies, schools, churches, and so on. Not only does this subversive approach enhance Parry137′s ability to trick us into trading freedom for serfdom but it also provides irrefutable evidence that what I have been writing up to this point is not what I initially intended to write in this letter. Instead, I decided it would be far more productive to tell you that I recently heard Parry137 tell a bunch of people that his debauches are the result of a high-minded urge to do sociological research. I can’t adequately describe my first reaction to this notion; I simply don’t know how to represent uncontrollable laughter in text.
I, hardheaded cynic that I am, unmistakably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Parry137 has, at times, called me “impetuous” or “lackadaisical”. Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to push our efforts two steps backward. Let us now join hands, hearts, and minds to exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. His propaganda factories continuously spew forth messages like, “Parry137′s harangues can give us deeper insights into the nature of reality” and, “Parry137 is known for his sound judgment, unerring foresight, and sagacious adaptation of means to ends”. What they don’t tell you, though, is that if we are to break the mold and stray from the path of conventional wisdom, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the foul and unregenerate ideologies that Parry137 promotes.
Parry137 has repeatedly been spotted breaking down our communities. When questioned about that, he either denies any knowledge of it or offers unbelievable and ludicrous explanations that only a wily energumen could believe. To make all of us pay for his boondoggles has never been something that I myself wanted to do. Never.
Because “premisrepresentation” is a word that can be interpreted in many ways, we must make it clear that Parry137 extricates himself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. I shall not argue that his newsgroup postings are an authentic map of his plan to pose a threat to the survival of democracy. Read them and see for yourself. Parry137, in his infinite wisdom, has decided to supply the chains that bind the individual to notions of self-loathing and unworthiness. That being the case, we can infer that he makes so many laughably ruthless statements, it boggles the mind to think about them. I mean, think about it. He uses the word “pseudointernationalistic” without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. People who are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated.
Should we sit back and let Parry137 herald the death of intelligent discourse on college campuses, or should we keep his janissaries at bay? That choice sure sounds like a no-brainer to me. Wherever you look, you’ll see him enforcing intolerance in the name of tolerance. You’ll see him suppressing freedom in the name of freedom. And you’ll see him crushing diversity of opinion in the name of diversity. If you were to try to tell his legatees that the agenda that he is attempting to advance is one of pauperism, repression, and quislingism, they’d close their eyes and put their hands over their ears. They are, as the psychologists say, in denial. They don’t want to hear that if Parry137 had two brain cells to rub together, he’d realize that he fears nothing more than the truth. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but he has already begun leading to the destruction of the human race. I wish I were joking but I’m not. What’s more, Parry137′s mind has limited horizons. It is confined to the immediate and simplistic, with the inevitable consequence that everything is made banal and basic and is then leveled down until it is deprived of all spiritual life. Parry137 has gotten us into one hell of a mess. So I give you this letter. I hope it helps.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Amen, brother!
No u
No, *you* ddn’t
I choose not to read any of this. Nothing. Does this make apathetic to the current state of whatever the hell these things are talking about? I dont care.
tl;dr WIN (except I did read it.)
tl;dr I didn’t read it so the guy above fails, instead I WIN
WTF???
Don’t even try to understand it. Just ignore it, and maybe it will go away.
How weird. that’s my username!
omg wow
NO THIS IS IT!
WTF?!?!? Did you copy that from wikipedia!?!? Good god what does that have to do with anything!??!
tl;dr
Pardon?
What?
tl;dr
Pardon?
tl;dr
Ur the same person aren’t you?
HUH
This is actually one of the rare few ones that actually make me laugh….hard XD
Youtube video unrelated.
where is the “thats what she said”
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
that was my exact though when i read “youre getting so big” xD
I believe the graph implied it
I hear women say that everyday, but it’s regarding whats inside my pants.
So what do you think the graph is about?
Meh, mostly a fail. Kids usually get excited about growing up, and pregnant women at least generally don’t take that remark too badly. [I am not responsible for anyone who accidentally says that to a woman who isn't expecting
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If you have to make the sex joke, at least take the trouble to set it up properly.
I agree with the first kg333. I’m pregnant and I like when people mention how big I’m getting. Plus the bar graph doesn’t really work the way the Y axis is set up, as if “Feels Godlike” is a stronger reaction than “I will kill you.”
the y axis doesn’t reflect strength of emotion but positive reactions from most negative to most positive. as far as pregnant women; this graph represents the greatest average in society and, as most women are not pregnant, feel free to think of yourself as the minority and not reflected in this graph… until at most 9 months from now.
Cry moar
I was about to make that pregnant comment too. Especially the annoying pregnant women who think they’re the only one in the world right now carrying a baby and want EVERYONE to notice they’ve gained .1303498″ in their abdomen this week. :\
Ignore that last comment. SEGREGATION FOR THE WIN!
Finally a good one! =)
That’s what she said.
This is probably the only graph that’s universally true. And hilarious.
Umm… i don’t understand what’s funny here.
It’s an erection joke.
Might call it stand-up comedy…
Lol so true!
i had a gf this summer and i asked her if she liked my looks and she said she definitaly liked my big posture and didnt like her own xp
My penis is getting big.
thank for info
MOO
thats what she said
need info on male/female roles, info on houses and why they used what they did for the houses and info on the region of the tribe for the cherokee. i desperately need this info thank you so much if you give me info!
For men:
could also be
That’s what she said