Communism And Marx
Volumes and volumes could be written about
communism, but in fact, the actual
Communist Manifesto is a mere forty pages.
Karl Marx, the principal former of
communism as we know it now, later wrote
many books fulfilling the outline or
skeleton of communism, which is the
Communist Manifesto. Communism cannot be
summed up in one sentence, but it
can be summed up in ten main ideas, sort of
like the Ten Commandments of true
communism. We know communism did not work,
because of one main reason: it
defies human nature and human rights. Although
communism in different
countries and years might differ, the following is an
outline of what is done
to have a communist government as described in length in
the Communist
Manifesto: 1. All private property has to be annihilated and
turned into
public property. This means that all property will go to the
government (who
knows how greedily they will use it) and distributed fairly
within all the
masses. Later on this part also included food, clothes and
personal items to
be distributed evenly in rations like the property was, but
Marx did not
say this in his manifesto. 2. A large progressive income tax. This
made it so
that everyone receives almost the same income; of course this does
not
include the aristocracy, which Marx was not thinking of...or was he? 3.
This
one is simple: abolition of right of inheritance. Basically the money
goes to
the government once again and they are suppose to use it to benefit
the country.
4. Property of emigrants and rebels is taken away, and sent
to the government
who are meant to use it for the benefit of the country. 5.
All of the people’s
money in the country is in one national bank and in the
hands of the state. Who
knows what might happen to the money in the bank? 6.
Communication and
transportation is in the hands of the state. This basically
means no free
speech; the government takes the right to censor any
publications and thoughts,
like ones against the government. Marx would not
be able to write this manifesto
without this right. It also means that the
state will censor where you go and
leaving the country, like in bad times. 7.
Basically what Marx meant here, is
that there is always improvement and
progress agriculturally, and that
agriculture and farming should be very
important. This happens in a normal
country, but I think Marx is trying to
get people on his side (like our
president does often instead of just
improving the country, it is basically
doing things to make certain people
happy). Marx might also be just a little
WACO. 8. All men have to work,
and establishment of industrial armies. Even Marx
himself noted that laziness
might overtake the populous, but he then said that
they would be able to
undertake the laziness and become better people. Marx
obviously does not
understand human nature. 9. The destruction or abolition of
the distinction
between town and country by a combination of agriculture and
manufacturing
industries and, also by evenly distributing the population across
the
country. There is one problem here, for instance, the people living
in
Siberia might revolt on this matter because of the unfavorable
location that
they have to live in. The point of this is to help make fewer
conflicts between
townsmen and countrymen. 10. Free education in public
schools and elimination of
child labor. When learning in school, you also
learn about industrial
production. This means that while learning normal
school stuff, you also learn
an occupation. When all this is done in every
civilized country and it is
running smoothly (yeah right) "WORKING MEN OF ALL
COUNTRIES, UNITE!" (Then,
after all this is completed we have a perfect world
or Utopia, just what Marx
wanted, but life is about conflicts and problems)
There are many flaws and
problems considering human nature and human rights
in Marx’s Communist
Manifesto. First of all, a Utopian society is
impossible and it is just a dream
by Thomas Moore. To think that one day we
would reach Utopia is ridiculous, part
of human life is conflicts, or what
would life be, the Brady Bunch. First,
people like to own their own property
and not have share it with the world. They
also like having their own family
contrary to whatever Marx says about have one
big universal family because
the only point of a family is for reproduction.
Second, the reason people
work, is to earn a living. What do they earn in a
communist society-the right
to share their life and existence with the rest of
the nation? People are
lazy; Marx obviously does not understand this because
everything was always
given to him one way or another him. Third, numbers three
through five
(government takes money and land from inheritance, emigrants,
rebels and
money in national bank) all have to do with the government taking
the
people’s money and using it for their benefit instead of helping the
country
like how Marx wanted it to happen. Fourth, in number six, Marx denies
himself
the right of free speech, freedom and transportation in communism.
Marx was
kindheartedly trying to help the poor and working class and it is
unfortunate
that such an influential person was so misinformed. I do not
understand why
people listened and followed Marx. People listen to a man who
does know much
about history or does not look back to events in time. He was
a member of the
Bourgeoisie in Germany (mainly because his good friends
Engles supported him)
who barely worked a day in his life except a job as a
journalist for very little
of his life. He spent most of his time inside and
did not see how humans worked,
in the streets and markets etc. Marx clearly
did not understand human nature and
the rights that were given to humans when
they were born. Some of these are the
rights of freedom, ownership of
property and to work harder and get more-like
Capitalists, not
Communists. Human nature includes striving to be the best if
something is at
stake and being lazy when there is no incentive. Marx’s whole
manifesto shows
a man who does not know a thing about human nature and any man
who followed
him either also did not have a clue about human nature, or was very
selfish
and wanted to become dictator of all the masses. Communism is
unlike
socialism in Europe in the 19th century because Socialism then was
supposedly,
to help the proletariat (working class), but in the end benefits
the bourgeoisie
(middle class: lawyer, banker, shopkeeper, etc.). Socialism
benefits the
bourgeois by taking the grudge away from the working class
against the bourgeois
and makes a barely higher income tax and kind of tricks
the working class into
thinking that socialism is helping them. Communism is
made for the working
class. Any rich man like Friedrich Engles (Karl Marx’s
only long-turn and best
friend) is either a hypocrite or a very kind person
trying to help poor humans.
If Engles were not a hypocrite in communism,
his money would go straight to the
government and leave him with the same
wealth as a factory worker even though he
might work much harder. Engles is
kind of like Ted Turner because both are rich
and favoring a government for
the poor and working class. If the left-wing had a
revolution and won, Ted
Turner would lose a lot of money because of heavy income
taxes and having to
pay workers who did not even work for him anymore, and I’m
sure he is not for
that. Ted Turner might want to be the government in a
socialist country and
maybe having Jane Fonda as his secretary, but not as a
normal businessman.
One of the main problems that defies human nature is that
someone will always
want to be the ruler or leader and in this case, the
government would take
all the average non-aristocratic people’s money and
become very rich and form
the two classes of a communist society. The first is
the bourgeoisie and the
workers, who make the same pay and second, the
aristocracy or government.
They take the people’s money and use it for
themselves, which destroys the
economy. In the end, the government looks almost
like feudalism again. First,
there is the dictator or king, and under him his
nobles and vassals, which
are the rest of the government workers, who are also
aristocracy. Finally
there are the peasants, workers, businessmen who are all
equal and have no
class struggles anymore and hardly realizes what just
happened; both
bourgeoisie and the workers are equal but now they lost there
money and fair
lives to the aristocracy, who are taking all their money. Take
Russia for
example; in the end the country is in shambles and there are a few
very rich
and greedy people and all the rest are practically starving. Karl Marx
had
based his ideas and thoughts around those of Hegel and the Hegelian
dialect,
Sismondi, Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Robert Owen and Thomas Moore.
These predecessors
influenced Marx as he has influenced his disciples. This
might be an extreme
idea, but maybe all along Karl Marx had a plan to become
absolute monarch or
dictator with his background and belief in his
predecessors. His manifesto takes
freedom and free speech away from the
people and also limits their travel, just
so the dictator or Marx could have
full, control, sort of like Iraq with Sudan
Housaine. Many editions were
printed out of The Communist Manifesto in the 19th
century in different
languages. Each one instigated new revolts, which most of
the time were not
very successful but started compromises for the working class.
Some of
today’s unions are based upon the ideas in the Communist Manifesto,
because
of course communism was for the working class. Even though communism
does not
exist in any countries any more except a few Oriental countries, it
has
helped and inspired many forms of working alliances like the Farmers
Alliance,
the National Grange and things like cooperatives. The Manifesto has
inspired
much corruption, but at the same time has also helped us, but the
bottom line is
that some of the ideas are against human nature and rights and
human nature is
not communism, but capitalism.