The most devastating social order of the modern society is communism. From its founders Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, who gave communism its philosophical meanings, to Vladimir Ili~ Lewin (Lenin), who gave it power after the October revolution in 1917, until today the communism hasn't changed its primary meaning and the ideology. World War II, the Cold War, the war in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, and most recent one in Bosnia, the starvation and poverty throughout the communist and former communist countries are all the consequences of this so-called "people's democracy" system. Comparing it with imperialism (being governed by communism), capitalism (developing parallel with communism), and socialism (continuation of the communism), communism is a society without money, without country, without property, and without social classes. The best example for the rise and later on the downfall of communism is the former Soviet Union.

What is communism? Is it as the democratic world sees it anarchic, dangerous, and careless? Is it maybe the theory that the knowledge of one person, one individual, one among the thousands and sometimes millions is enough to decide for the whole nation, even though

The consequences from the communist era are catastrophic. In the World War II, millions of people lost their lives. The Germans, who defined themselves as the people of higher social class and who should rule the world, started the war, and the communists, the defenders in that war, had the same idea. Instead of having one country that will rule the world, in this case Germany, the communists had the idea of ruling the world through all the countries with equal social classes. In 1950's the new phase had begun, the phase of the Cold War. Billions of dollars were invested in both sides' weapons. Until 1989, the world was an unstable place to live. Nuclear weapons were produced in enormous numbers. Corruption and the espionage became the everyday happenings between the communists and the rest of the world. At some points it was so critical that a new war, nuclear war, could have begun. In the beginning of 1980's the communist countries felt the first principal problems. The people were not motivated any more, the starving had begun, and the whole social order started cracking down. In 1989 the era of Cold War was done. The most powerful communist country, the Soviet Union, fell apart and the rest of them in the next couple of years had the same destiny. Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, in Europe were either separated into smaller ones or did the reconstruction of their government. In either case, they are still retrieving from the dungeon called communism. Even today socialistic party leaders, former communists, are still trying to revive the communism, such as Slobodan Milo{evi} (Milosevic), the president of Yugoslavia and former Josip Broz Tito's right hand, Yugoslav communist leader (1945-1980). With his actions, Yugoslavia is just becoming poorer and poorer, and unstable place to live.

he or she doesn't even know one percent of it? The newest edition of Webster's dictionary describes communism in a couple of ways: as a social organization in which goods are held in common; a theory of social organization advocating common ownership of means of production and a distribution of products of industry based on needs, such as a political doctrine based on revolutionary Marxist socialism that was the official ideology of some countries. Communism cannot be explained by words. Even the previous edition of Webster's dictionary has some variations when we are exp

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