Communism Today

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This paper addresses the question whether or not communism can survive in today's world. The writer concludes that communism cannot survive in today's world for the same reason why it couldn't survive in the past; human motivation simply will not allow it.

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"Vladimir Lenin built upon Marx's work and authored the work State and Revolution, in 1917. He too saw the need for a classless society, where equality reigned supreme, yet saw the communist party as a revolutionary vanguard. The party would then achieve its goals using democratic centralism, a dictatorship of the proletariat where the workers would hold all of the political power through councils known as soviets ("Leninism", 2004). It was this system that was adopted, and would eventually fail, in Russia."

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