Communism and Marxism

Communism is based on some of the same ideas presented in Marxism. Marxists feel that the work force is what makes the country go forward, or if they have a weak work force this can be what causes a country to fail on many levels.

Communist governments take control of all aspects of the workforce. They regulate who gets jobs, how much jobs pay, and leave little power to the work force whatsoever.

I think that leaders in Communist Governments feel that they are for the most part very intelligent and that they know what it takes to be powerful or successful. Unfortunately for those very same leaders they will never find a workforce who is willing to work their butts off to make the economy better. The workers have no motivation to do better because they don't really have anything to work towards. Whether or not they are the best at their jobs or not it is not going to matter because the government is going to force them to keep doing what they are doing and pay them the same anyway.

I feel this is a big reason why Communism won't ever work on a very large scale. It may work on very small scales where the people being governed are not very intelligent and need government assistance to get by. But in a Large scale it can't work because the people will defy the government in hopes to position themselves for bigger and better things. The government will likely try to put these people down. If they fail, the Communist government falls, but even if they succeed to stop these people from working for their own betterment it is most likely going to be done by jailing or killing them. This means they are losing their very best workers in certain fields.

One interesting side note that I thought was neat. The term "Marxism" is named after Karl Marx, however Karl Marx himself claims that he is NOT a Marxist.