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Communism is defined as a revolutionary movement to create a classless and stateless social

order. A classless society would mean equality in the community; no biases and all citizens would be in
an equal state.
By classless meaning whatever job you have or no matter how hard the work is, everyone
would get an equal pay. Working ten times harder than another guy but having the same pay wouldnt
be fair to an individuals view.

a theory advocating elimination of private property


a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
Communism (from Latin communis - common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless,
moneyless, and stateless social order structuredupon common ownership of the means of production, as well as
a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order. [1] This movement, in its Marxist
Leninist interpretations, significantly influenced the history of the 20th century, which saw intense rivalry between the
"socialist world" (socialist states ruled by communist parties) and the "western world" (countries with capitalist economies).
Marxist theory holds that pure communism or full communism is a specific stage of historical development that inevitably
emerges from the development of the productive forces that leads to a superabundance of material wealth, allowing
for distribution based on need and social relations based on freely associated individuals.[2][3] The exact definition of
communism varies, and it is often mistakenly, in general political discourse, used interchangeably with socialism; however,
Marxist theory contends that socialism is just a transitional stage on the road to communism. Leninism adds to Marxism the
notion of a vanguard party to lead the proletarian revolution and to secure all political power after the revolution for the
working class, for the development of universal class consciousness and worker participation, in a transitional stage
betweencapitalism and socialism
According to communist theory, the only way to abolish capitalist inequalities is to have the proletariat (working
class), who collectively constitute the main producer of wealth in society, and who are perpetually exploited and
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marginalised by the bourgeoisie (wealthy class), to overthrow the capitalist system in a wide-ranging social revolution. The
revolution, in the theory of most individuals and groups espousing communist revolution, usually involves an armed
rebellion. The revolution espoused can be explained by theorists in many different ways, and usually depends on the
environment in which the particular communism theory originates. For example, the Chinese Revolution involved military
combat between the Chinese Red and the Chinese Nationalist Armies, while the Vietnamese Revolution was characterised
by guerrilla warfare between the heavily backed Vietnam People's Army and various Western armies, culminating in
the Vietnam War which ended in 1975. Meanwhile, the Cuban Revolution was essentially a coup that did not involve
intensive wide-scale military conflict between Fulgencio Batista's soldiers and those of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. In
fact, Castro initially did not believe that avanguard party was necessary in Cuba's case, a view boosted by Batista's
unpopularity at the time of the actual armed conflict between the two sides. Regardless of the specific form a communist
revolution takes, its aim is for the working class to replace the exploiter class as the ruling class to establish a society
without class divisions, called socialism, as a prelude to attempting to achieve the final stage of communism.

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