Capitalist vs. Communist
By Jenni Buchanan
Ms. Wengel - Social Studies class
5-4-16
The capitalists and communists of the world have been at war since the Cold War, which lasted from 1947 to 1991. These two great political ideologies are very different, and they would probably find it very offensive to be considered similar. They are opposite by their very nature. In fact, one of them was specifically created to oppose the other one. Communism was first started in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. They started it because they thought that if capitalism were to continue, workers were going to be exploited, and they wanted to prevent that from happening. They thought that they were doing the right thing by helping out people who
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Capitalists wanted a democratic society to go with their economic plan, led by a leader or group of leaders that were chosen through an election, and Communists wanted a totalitarian society to go with their economic plan, ruled by a single leader that took control over everyone and leads every aspect of their lives, instead of the old-fashioned concept of kings. Whether a president, prime minister, Congress, or a dictator, the leaders from these economic plan/societies dictate public policy. Communism is simply just more strict. Also, both of these rely on a political system which consists of a group or multiple groups that control political process. Political process is, according to Merriam Webster, “the process of the formulation and administration of public policy usually by interaction between social groups and political institutions or between political leadership and public opinion.” This means that the governments control how they want their citizens and country to act. Both also have a leading class that uses the idea of ownership, whether private or shared by all, to justify their economic system. The last similarity, and perhaps the saddest one, is that both use humongous amounts of violence to implement their system and to destroy their enemies or anyone who opposes them. They can’t just co-exist peacefully and get along; they shall fight until only one of them is left. The
Communism was founded by Karl Marx and was set up to help the government out by saving money and elimination the social class system. It was a form of socialism and is the idea
After World War two, the west and the Soviets brought up tensions between each other. Countries such as Great Britain, the United States, Canada, France and others practiced a capitalist economy. Capitalism is a free market ideal in which the government has as little intervention to its people as possible. On the other hand, the Soviets practiced a Communist government. Communism is a form of socialism that has its government get involved in everyone’s daily life. This meant that the government determined how much and what kinds of goods would be produced.
Communism is an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property. Many communists would soon put an end to private property, substituting government ownership of factories, railroads and other businesses. After the Red Scare communists "reds" cried out for
Communism the advocate of a class war, leading to a government in which all people work and gets paid equivalent to one’s capabilities and needs; also with all property is owned publicly. Most people would agree that socialism would be more fitting for the American society, but Vladimir Lenin prior leader of communist Russia once said, “The goal of socialism is communism.” Communism being the ideal “antibiotic” for capitalism it would benefit the American society with good understanding of the basic ideals, adaptations of the government, a brief history of Communism, modern day communist parties, and the base population opinion.
The word ‘communism’ originated from ‘commun’, a French term meaning ‘belonging to all’. Before the actual foundation of communist parties and countries, there were people who had desired the theory of shared ownership and equal wealth among society for centuries. The earliest notable people to endorse this theoretical societal system included Greek philosopher Plato and religious leader
Capitalism means that, well any and every businesses and market forces with supply and demand determine what goods are available in their markets and what the prices they want those goods to be are. Everything, land, shops, housing, industries, and land are for the most part, owned by private individuals or companies instead of the collective whole. And in The United States political system, a democracy, every single citizen chose their leaders by voting them into office by elections that are free and fair. Governmental oversight however of every day life is very minimal, allowing its individuals to make each and every one of their decisions on their own free will. As to what career they want to pursue, where they want to live, what they want to eat, etc. Although each system had benefits and disadvantages, during The Cold War both the Soviet Union and The United States were viewing the other 's system as incorrect and a threat to their own system. Both countries worried that the other may indeed one day attempt to spread its ideology throughout the world. The United States was unwilling to live in a world, as where communism dominated and out ruled, and The Soviet Union felt very similar about living in a situation to where they would be under capitalism. Communist tent to believe that capitalism is indeed a selfish ideology
differences. One of the main tenets of communism is that capitalism is inherently bad and posed a threat to
Socialism and communism are ideological principles that have many distinguishing features in addition to many shared characteristics; however, it is complicated to distinguish the accurate differences between them, as various societies have tried embarking on the dissimilar nature of both systems in innumerable forms, thereby, making many zealous supporter of ideology with different agendas defining both systems in a biased term.
Communist had a long history during the 20th century, and communism was very influential. Almost all of Asia and East Europe became Communist. From the start of the theory then many civil wars in Russia affected the whole world. Communist defined the idea of itself in many different ways, it helps many nations came together formed a party fought wars, but it also made many countries became really poor, and the economy in most of the countries got pushed back about 10 years. Communism is an economic and political system that sought to create an egalitarian society; it collapsed because of personal interest and government’s corruption.
Communism is the social and economic system where all the resources and wealth in a country is evenly owned and distributed to all citizens who live without classes. This sounds like an ideal way of living to any poor citizen. Communists see this being the only way to ensure freedom to all citizens because everything is shared equally. Communism “The ideal is one of full social equality that in its most extreme form…calls for the dissolution of the individual in the community… in other words, no private property.” Basically, Communism allowed every individual the same rights as everyone else. Everyone is employed, educated, and middle class. Communism started gaining popularity in the world after emerging victor of the Chinese Civil war. This
The major differences between the two are their preferred styles of government, capitalism and communism. The major difference between the two is their view on economic production. In Communism, the central government controls all production and determines what goods the economy should produce, as well as the price of those goods. Meanwhile, Capitalism allows the market decide what goods should
More specifically, the main principle of Capitalism is a crane, and the main principle of Communism is a skyhook. Capitalism promotes the concept of equal opportunity, and feeds off of the notion that some people will, by design, be better than others. Communism, however, promotes a society in which all people are socio-economically equal no matter how hard they
In, Eric Li's Ted Talk "A Tale of Two Political Systems”, he discussed the two stories he was told, which I feel exemplifies the differences in the two political systems. The first , believed by the Chinese, was that all societies develop in a linear process and will be engaged by the struggle of good vs bad or as Li stated socialism vs. capitalism and socialism will triumph. However, while in U.S. he was taught that all human societies progress in a linear process and end in a singular end. All societies must progress from singular groups that are reduced to singular individuals who are all rational. Therefore, electoral democracy will be for all and all other govern concepts are bad.
This is the theory of a free market, based on supply and demand to take care of the consumer welfare. Capitalism gives people the freedom to do as they wish, and allows them the opportunities to work to gain great wealth, or to just survive in the society. While communism sets direct demands on the work you do and what you need to produce, so others can benefit as well as you from your hard work.
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. It also can be defined as a conceptualized system of government in which resources and production facilities are the property of the entire society rather than individuals. In a communist society, labor is shared equally as well, and the benefits of labor are distributed according to need (Communism.4all 1). No one person shall be ranked higher than another and there is to be one person in charge of the society in a communism government. There are still to this day many countries that fall under the rule of communism and the ways they were transformed under communist rule is quite interesting.