COMMUNISM

Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need. A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).

Communism...

It used to be a dirty word coming out of the mouth's of Americans.

Today, because the USA has embraced SOCIALISM, it is no longer a dirty word.

Communism...

is the type of government that one would find in:

• Russia
• China
• Vietnam
• Cuba
• North Korea

Disadvantages of Communism

1. The government owns all the businesses and properties (the means of production).
2. There is no freedom of speech.
3. Large or geographically broad populations tend to be diverse, making it difficult to maintain a common goal or set of rules for shared effort and resources.

Personally, I don't think much of communism mainly because there is no freedom of speech...  but, in a communist society there are no wealthy people except those who are in power and there is no individuality in that you are told who you will or will not become.

One could make a comparison between COMMUNISM and STAR TREK for example where Star Trek is seen as a UTOPIAN type of society but in reality, everything is owned by the government...  technically, there is freedom of speech but that is more Hollywood that the reality of that type of society.

There are a lot of young people today who do not like the millionaires and billionaires and the double standards that exist in the USA and believe that COMMUNISM is the answer to their concerns.  They might be right, that communism is the answer to their concerns but most of us legacy citizens believe we would have to GIVE UP TOO MUCH...