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Capitalism and communism have always shared differences as ideologies in history and, both of them have had extensive success over the course of the twentieth century, however the causes of success in the communist ideology are not always as well-earned as they are described by history.

Communism started off of rage and popular dissatisfaction from a monarquic empire in the early 1900’s and promised to solve the problems of the population like hunger and living conditions and evolved to become a long lasting transitional government with much success for their leaders but in reality people lived working their whole lives without little to no improvement to themselves or their families in contrast to capitalism which was made what it

In this essay, the author

  • Opines that the capital of the country leaving the other states without self-judgement of their own economy.
  • Opines that communist governments throughout history have also been very reserved and do not have the best.
  • Opines that the success of a country should not be based in lies oppression and control and should be more about taking action respecting the law and freedom.
  • Explains that capitalism and communism have shared differences as ideologies in history and, both of them have had extensive success over the course of the twentieth century.
  • Explains that communism started off off of rage and popular dissatisfaction from a monarquic empire in the early 1900’s and evolved to become long lasting transitional government with much success for their leaders but in reality people lived working their whole lives without little improvement to themselves or their families.
  • Argues that without organizations like the un or human right watch to offer aid against these horrible acts, intelligence agencies within these countries are corrupt and harass their citizens for security measures and control over the population. capitalist countries have measures to avoid these kinds of acts and respond for the well-being of their population
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