Before he gained power, Marx created a club called the Communist League. In 1844, Marx met a German philosopher named Friedrich Engels. They became very good friends and together wrote the Communist Manifesto, which laid the foundation for socialism and communism. It was written to send a message to the proletariat class, telling them unite in a worldwide effort to overthrow the free market (also called capitalism) and to get rid of the so-called class system. He also wrote Das Kapital (The capital). It took him thirty years to complete and was published in three volumes.
Consider this quote: "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Topics that will be discussed on this website:
- What History Teaches Us About Communism
- Communism's Persecution of Religion
- Communism's Ultimate Goal
- Communism and Healthcare
- Communism versus Freedom
- Communism's Propeganda Tools
- How Communism Sneaks In
- Why Communism Doesn't Work
- Communism's Greed Factor
- Communism's Class Warfare
- What is Socialism?
- Comparisons and Stories
- How Cultures Get Lured into Communism
- Why it Sounds So Good and Works So Poorly
- What the Pilgrims Learned from their Communism Experiment
- Explotation and Communism
- How Communism Takes All Power from the People
- How Communism Removes the Right to the Pursuit of Happiness
- Communism and Political Correctness
- Communism and Greed
- Government Programs versus the Private Sector
"In capitalism you are free to earn as much or as little as you like. If you want to grow your own food in your own backyard you are free to do so or you can start your own business and try to become wealthy. The point is that you decide for yourself. In communism, however, a group of elites in power decide not only what you do for society, but how much you're worth doing it."
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