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The Lie Of Communism

Communism is an interesting concept that in it’s pure form appeals to the poor masses by promising an end to oppression and abolishing power over people. This is the ‘pure’ form of communism. The only problem is that it can never work that way. Communism relies on the basic good of people in order to achieve success of itself. A communist state requires that all people work as hard as they can for the greater good of all and everyone receives an average share of the return from that work. A noble concept, too bad that most people require more than ‘greater good’ for satisfaction and reward for the work they do.

Humans become dissatisfied with the monotony of work without recognition of performance, this can be seen over and over again with failed attempts at communism. Rather than attempt to work to the fullest for the greater good of all, most realize that they receive the same amount of return for their work, regardless of the amount of work they do, therefore, why work any harder? Plus, by working harder, there is no reward for doing extra.

Another problem with communism is that the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China, along with other all other former and present communist nations, are actually not communist at all, but group dictatorships. This is a flaw that in all probability can never be overcome. True communism abolishes “power over people”. This also abolishes leadership. The human masses need leadership, so a communist party would be formed to lead the masses, and they would end up always becoming a group dictatorship. A group dictatorship hoards the wealth of the country among a select few, in the case of communist nations such as China, this select few is the communist party itself. They live in wealthy houses and drive expensive cars, while the common laborer is lucky to have a bicycle to ride to work every day.

True communism is a noble concept. Unfortunately, it cannot ever work as defined because of the flaws of human nature.