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11 years ago
I'm writing an essay on communism and how the practice fail in most country, particular USSR.  Beside human nature, how else does it fail?  Also how does communism are form?  Is it by Marxism?
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11 years ago
If I paint a scene and it turns out different which is the failure my painting or the architect's design?

Yes Marxism is a subset of communism, but it is just about the earliest form.
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11 years ago
Read the book Liberty and Terany by Mark Levin. It has been on the New York Slimes best sellers list for 4 week. He tell what the differance is
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11 years ago
Marxism by definition can't exactly fail.  Marxism is the belief that it is an inevitability that, through a natural socio-economic progression, the end-state of the world will be communist.  This will only happen after capitalism has failed just as feudalism failed before that and just as slavery failed before that.

So the problem with the USSR was that they tried to implement Marxism when Marxism isn't something to be implemented.  They skipped capitalism all together and pushed for communism before it was ready.

At least, that's how a Marxist would explain why the USSR failed.
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Most often, Marxism refers to a belief in a set of economic theories or a kind of materialist view of the world that Marx seemed to adopt.  It's not really a type of government in that sense.  It could only fail if scientific evidence demonstrates that it is factually untrue.

According to Marxism, communism is an inevitable social development... so people often confuse the two terms.  There are, however, plenty of communists who aren't Marxists at all and some Marxists who aren't necessarily interested in hurrying things along.

George Orwell's book "Animal Farm" is basically a long analysis of why the Russian Revolution failed to produce a truly communist state, an outcome that he thought was tragic.  He portrays corrupt leaders quirking the system and too-trusting common folk giving them too much slack until its too late.  Arguably, though, this is a danger of almost any system.

Some have suggested that organizational difficulties are too large to surmount for all but tiny communes.  Many historical communes fell apart when the second generation failed to hold all the ideals of their parents.  And it's worth noting that most of the so-called communist governments were really nothing but tyrannies from beginning to end... ones that wanted to seem better than they were.

As an economic theory, Marxism isn't completely devoid of merit yet.  Marx predicted a growth of intermediate 'socialist' enterprises which would bridge the gap between capitalism and communism.  And we are seeing that in many countries in the world, even in the long hold-out of America.  Only time will tell if these come to dominate the economic landscape or if they will instead lapse or find a different kind of balance.
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