Communism by kamau mbote

This is a social economic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production. Propagators of the theory believe that it helps in the full realization of human freedom. It draws basis from theorists of the industrial revolution and the French revolution and tries to work out problems intrinsic with capitalistic economies and the legacy of imperialism and nationalism. This ideology is based on an agent, obstacle and goal concept. It states that the agents are the working people while the obstacle is the different classes in society and in the economy. The goal seeks the fulfillment of human needs like satisfaction at work and the society feeling they have a fair share of the product. The presumption is to achieve a free society with no partition or alienation where humanity is liberated from oppression and scarcity. Such divisions can be reduced if not solved by helping replace the rich and present ruling class in order to create a peaceful, free society, without classes or regimes.
In communism certain characteristics are almost common in all communist states. First the state manages distribution of resources and products as the antithesis of market-allocated resources and wealth. Secondly all resources are collectivized as opposed to private ownership of means of production. Communism appropriations differ from non communist appropriation in that it empowers producers to also appropriate their surplus. The appropriation is done collectively thereby some people in communism secure livelihood over the size of communist surplus and its distribution while others live by receiving distributions of it. Communism enforced certain policies such as abolition of private property, heavy Progressive Income Tax, abolition of rights of inheritance, confiscation of property rights government ownership of communication, transportation, factories, agriculture and education.
Communism goes by many forms depending on the political leader who helped facilitate this ideology. The dominant forms of communism, such as Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Trotskyism and Luxemburgism, are based on the ideologies of Carl Marx, but non-Marxist versions of communism (such as Christian communism and anarchist communism) also exist and are growing in importance since the collapse of U.S.S.R..