Communism: Origins, Components, Disagreements, and Political Issues

This essay delves into the ideology of communism, examining its historical origins, which arose during the industrial revolution as a response to economic inequality and worker exploitation. It outlines the major components of communism, including its roots in the Latin word 'Communis' and its development by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, emphasizing the goal of eliminating private property and establishing a classless society. The essay also discusses disagreements within the communist tradition, particularly concerning the elimination of the free market, the restriction of free speech, and the challenges of applying communist principles in culturally diverse nations. Furthermore, it explores various political issues associated with communism, such as the concept's divergence from socialism, the increasing use of political culture in social sciences, and the impact on consumer satisfaction and worker productivity. The essay concludes by highlighting the dissatisfaction of both consumers and workers under communist systems due to the lack of profit motive and individual needs.

Ideology Matters

Contents
Historical origins of the ideology....................................................................................................1
Major components...........................................................................................................................1
Disagreements within the ideological traditions within communism..............................................1
Political issues in ideology..............................................................................................................2
References........................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Communism is referred to an ideology which focuses on elimination the economic
inequality which has been persistent in the society. This ideology rise during industrial
revolution when business owners tend to exploit workers for economic gain and did not
compensate them well. This assignment consist information major components of communism
and also talk about various political issues involved in it.
MAIN BODY
Historical origins of the ideology
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 Communism is not similar to socialism but are similar on the ground of ideology as they
both promote equality in terms of economic.
 However there is an equal reliance on the political and economic grounds as this ideology
supports the fact that privately owned businesses should work for the welfare of the
people.
Major components
 The word communism originated from the Latin word 'Communis' which means This
originated during second half of 19th century and invented by two people Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels.
 The major cause of establishing this theory is the injustice which carried out during
Capitalism era. The workers were exploited beyond limits which gave rise to such
philosophy encouraging equitable treatment on political and economic grounds.
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 There were numerous proponents who supported the ideology of Communism along with
Karl Marx. One of the early supporter of this philosophy is English philosopher Sir
Thomas More through development of a society where there is no existence of money
and people live in a very cordial environment. The another person who argued in favor of
communism is Vladmir Ilich lenin, he lead the revolutionary communism in Russia. He
envisioned the theory and modified in Lennism. He also stated that it is not possible to
practice communism in capital based countries as people are more conscious of the their
trade union efforts. Mao Zedeng is one of the renowned leader who led communist party
named as People's republic party in China. The philosophy have been implemented
throughout and have been successful in bringing out cultural revolution in the country
however it has led to millions of death. Fidel castro is one of the contemporary examples
of communist revolutionary. With the help of this philosophy, he was able to overthrow
military rule in Cuba in the year 1969. He had formed his own strong follower ship who
believed in his approaches of doing a task and was successful in restoring the balance.
Disagreements within the ideological traditions within communism
 The ideology of communism is a philosophical movement which leads towards the
development of communist society. Thus ideology is strongly followed by its thinkers as
it helps in create a stateless and classless society. But like any other ideology, this one too
has various disagreements which are provided by thinkers of democracy and socialism.
 The most essential disagreement which has been most talked about by capitalist and
socialist authors is elimination of free market. In the pursuit of communism, the free
market has to be eliminated which implies the laws of supply and demand will not set the
prices of commodities traded in market as government will hold all the rights to decide
the prices of goods.
 In such environment, earning of fair profit is difficult and satisfaction of consumers will
never be acquired as there will be no feedback on the set prices. Another disagreement
which infringes the basic right of a citizen is there is no freedom of speech in
communism states. This ideology restricts the basic right of an individual due to which
they cannot express their ideas and thoughts in public due to the proponent that people
must express the views which are in the favour of community and not the individuality.
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This ideology oversees the basic philosophy that it is not important that every individual
has similar take on the ideological traditions.
 Another disagreement of communism is in the favour of nations which are culturally
diverse. In this contemporary world, there are only few nations in which all the citizens
follow same religions or culture. Communism is an ideology which states that all the
people of nation will follow same rules and regulations and for a nation with culturally
diverse environment, it is nearly impossible for every citizen to follow same rules when
their origin, religion, culture is vastly diverse. Also, such nations include population
which is difficult to be controlled due to the high number of people combining a nation’s
population. Therefore, central planning is difficult to achieve.
 From the eyes of a nation’s economy, the first most disagreement which tends to be
observed is that needs and demands of consumers are not taken into consideration and
there is no concept such as consumer satisfaction. A nation which follows communism
will focus on producing the commodities which are only essential for consumers and it
does not have do anything with their desires and needs. In such scenario, communism
will never satisfy the needs of consumers as business in such ideology are owned by the
government and it is in their control to decide which products will be produced and will
which be not.
Political issues in ideology
 Concept of communism is a one that believes that by eliminate private property societies
can attain equality at social level.
 Concept of Communism is totally different from socialism. Both these concepts inspired
different political and social movements since 19th century. Political culture is not a new
in social sciences.
 In recent time, use of this concept is increase in which the issue of continuity versus
change is raised. Some states are that in which authorities claim to have defective
decisively along with political behaviour and beliefs. Major two reasons behind increase
the use of political culture in recent years is that it has slowed from a renewed in
instability and stability of regimes and in the relationship between societies and regimes.
In most of the cases the capability of constitutional structure is was in doubt. An
underlying pattern of expectations and attitude towards government was involved that
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appear to understand properly. In communist states the degree of attention given to
political culture skipped from the societies. Main feature of communism is that it ensures
elimination of property in land and applications of all rents of land that are related to
public purposes. Further, it ensures increase graduated income tax, also ensure equal
liability of all to industrial armies to labour.
CONCLUSION
From above analysed economic point of view, in the case of communism not only the
consumers but workers are also not satisfied. Satisfaction is a sentiment which is achieved when
needs of an individual is fulfilled. In the case of communism where there is no motive of profit
making, workers cannot be satisfied; which will also lead to difficulty while achieving
productivity and efficiency.
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