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What compels Communism
Title: What compels Communism
Category: History
Details: Words: 2365 | Pages: 10.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
What compels Communism
Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup gave birth
to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of
mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union the old empire of the
Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980'sÓ (Luttwak,
1).
In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which
all class differences would …showed first 75 words of 2365 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2365 total…in theory meant that the means of production
was in the hands of the state. The state, in turn, would build the
future, classless society. But still, the power was in the hands of the
party (Farah, 583). The next decade was ruled by a collective
dictatorship of the top party leaders. At the top level individuals
still spoke for themselves, and considerable freedom for factional
controversy remained despite the principles of unity laid down in 1921.
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