This is one of the most difficult topics in the history of the development of human civilization. The best minds of mankind cannot answer the question: "Communism: what is it - the main path to progress or a global systemic catastrophe?" There is simply no consensus here. And the existing points of view are diametrically opposed and sharply conflicting. But let's look at the history of the issue.
Communism - what is it? Looking back
This process of social thought began in post-feudal Europe. During the period of intensive development of capitalism, the working people were subjected to brutal exploitation by the owners of the means of production. It was at this time that leading thinkers and philosophers began to think about how not only to comprehend the world, but also to actively transform the existing system in the interests of the oppressed majority of the population. Anyone who is really interested in the answer to the question: "Communism - what is it?" - you should just read the Manifesto of the Communist Party of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in 1848. This brochure summarizes the planreorganization of the world according to communist principles. This theory has had a strong influence on the course of very many historical processes. But Russia suffered the most from it.
Soviet Communism
All the theoretical constructions of European thinkers have found their embodiment in our Motherland. After the 1917 revolution, power in Russia was seized and usurped by one party that declared itself to represent the will of the majority of the Russian population. These were the Bolsheviks, they brutally suppressed the resistance to their power in the civil war. They began to build in Russia what was indicated in the theoretical works of Marx, Engels, Lenin. They had no choice of means to achieve their goal, except for the bloody suppression of everything that stood in their way. The policy of communism in the USSR was totalitarian. Everything was subordinated to the will of the Kremlin leaders. The Soviet Union has achieved great success in building the industrial base of the economy, in science and culture. But an unacceptable price was paid for this. The society of real socialism was an egalitarian system, where a person was in no way interested in the results of his labor activity. Labor productivity was very low. It is in the nature of things - a person can work well only for himself and his family, but not for parasites who point the way to a happy future from above. It was this that predetermined the catastrophe of communist ideas in the Soviet Union. Soviet communism lost in the competition with Western market capitalism. Heleft a rather heavy legacy. Outdated industrial infrastructure, ruined agriculture, environmental damage from the predatory looting of natural resources. And most importantly - great devastation in the minds of a significant part of the population, which has become lumpenized and has lost the ability to do creative work.
These are the results of the historical path. But the debate over the question: "Communism - what is it?"
