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 he or she doesn't 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 a revolutionary Marxist socialism that was the official ideology of some countries. All of the possible explanations are valid, but one has to live through it in order to discuss or even try to describe the word communism. For example, when one is learning about a certain war they

learn about where, why and what happened but they really can't say they know much. One cannot, probably, even imagine what the war is really like until they face it and are in it. It is then when one becomes smarter with the knowledge and wisdom from experience. My family has a very bad experience with communism and given the opportunity, I'll gladly speak my mind about communism without worrying of being jailed or killed.

Marx, Engels, Lenin, and other people that theorized communism never explained in detail exactly what kind of system they wanted to establish. Their goal was a society in which the workers, not the capitalists (land, factories, machinery owned privately), owned all means of production specifically land, factories, and machinery. To reach communism, a transition period was needed, during which the government controlled the economy. Lenin, when he came to power in Russia in 1917, was inexperienced at organizing and running an economy. He was forced to experiment. Everything he tried failed, and in the process the workable economy of Russia was nearly demolished.

In a communist government, the community owns the major resources, means of transportation and production. This is stated in Marx's 10 points. The goal of such system is to prevent any person or group of people from becoming radically rich, while others are extremely poor. The system attempts to eliminate lower class by balancing the wealth between rich and poor, therefore giving everyone equal pay and ownership. Unfortunately, this results in an increased lower class. In other words communism is just a phrase for protecting one group of people, one class, one society, the rich society (the ruler and his background), thus leaving the poor to struggle for their lives and share among each other whatever they might posses.

Marx realized that with the unification of the working class, they would be able to better themselves and their lives, and in doing so, better society on the whole. The aspiration to achieve this was purely theoretical. The communist ideals are like a dream that cannot be reached because of human's inescapable desire to satisfy their own egos. For example, my grandfather, a lawyer and an architect, build his own house. When Enver Hoxha, the leader of the communist party in Albania, came

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