The Philosophies Of Communism

Throughout the 20th century, society was faced with many new and powerful ideologies, ideas like Nazism and terrorism haunt the world. However, the most dangerous ideology that society combatted was communism. For the majority of the twentieth century, roughly “one-third of the world’s population lived under communist regimes” (Ball). Therefore, during the twentieth century communism is the most significant ideology that plagued society. Communism is defined as an “economic-political philosophy founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the second half of the 19th century” (Communism). In a true communist community, society would exist without class divisions and “production and distribution of goods would be based upon the principle ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’” (Ball). The ideology was promoted as an end to the exploitation of workers. One of the main philosophies of communism is that “the needs of a society would be put above and beyond the specific needs of an individual” (Communism). Most communist states went through a phase, similar to socialism, and then the community would settle on a pure communist government.

Globally, communism affected nations through what came to be known as the domino effect. The domino effect is defined as “the

The ultimate goal for this program was to accomplish economic development in a very short period of time through extensive economic collectivization and mobilization of the populace. Also known as the five-year plan, the Great Leap Forward was put in place in 1958 through the earlier 1960s. As stated, the main goal of this plan was to avoid the more typical process of industrialization while proving to the western world that China is a major superpower and to take over the position of nations like Great Britain and the United