Communism

By Jasmine and Yunyun

What Is Communism?
&
What sets it apart?

All means of production arent

owned by individuals, instead, by
everyone.
(Communism: History and Background. )

 Socialism = Communism?
The government in a socialist economy
is the boss and they tell you what to
produce and what to buy.
everything that people produce is in
some sense a social product, and
Everyone who contributes to the
production of a good is entitled to a
share in it. Society as a whole,
therefore, should own or at least control
property for the benefit of all its
members.

Profit-based economy/
government system with
public ownership and
communal control of at least
the major means of production
and the natural resources of a
society

The Ten Planks of The Communist Manifesto

1. Abolition of private property
2. Heavy progressive or graduated income
tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all
emigrants and rebels.
5. Central Bank
6. Government Control of Communications
and Transportation

7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture

8. Government control of labour
9. Corporate farms, regional planning
10. Government control of education

Who founded
communism?

Karl Marx
(1818 - 1883)

Karl Marx was a German

philosopher, economist,
sociologist, journalist and
revolutionary socialist.

Friedrich Engels
(1820 - 1995)

Friedrich Engels was a

German philosopher, social
scientist and journalist, who
founded Marxist theory
together with Karl Marx.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.

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TYPES OF COMMUNISM

PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM
Karl Marxs original concept
earliest stage of economic production was actually an early form of
Communism.
An ancient hunter-gatherer society in which property was owned by
the community. Because there were no land-owning or capital-owning
classes, labor owned the the entire product of labor.

STALINISM/ MAOISM
Joseph Stalin & Mao Ze Dong
Justified their totalitarian dictatorships of a vanguard party by
invoking the necessity of a transitional period to Communism

Advantages

Equality:

No class systems
Education
Basic Health Care
Food
Reduces unemployment
IT PAVES WAY FOR A STRONG AND SAFE COUNTRY

("List of Pros and Cons of Communism." )

(Chief Editor.)

Disadvantages

Anti-ambition
Fuels Poverty
No personal freedom
History of Corruption
Just as corrupt as Capitalism

("List of Pros and Cons of Communism." )

(Chief Editor.)

Are there any

semblances to
Animal Farm?

Animalism is when animals rebel against humans and will

no longer work for them. All animals will be treated
equally. Communism is when low class workers will rebel
against capitalist and will no longer work for them. All
workers will be treated equally.
(Aguilar, Alejandra.)

Leon Trotsky

Snowball

(Aguilar, Alejandra.)

Joseph Stalin

Napoleon

(Aguilar, Alejandra.)

Real life
examples

Soviet Union (1912-1990)

Laos (1975-present)
North Korea (1948-present)
Vietnam (1975-present)
Cuba (1959-PRESENT)
China (1921-PRESENT)

MAJOR
LEADERS

Vladimir Lenin (Russia: 1870-1924)

Joseph Stalin (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR): 1929-1953)
Mao Zedong (Chinese Communist Party: 1935 until his death, 1976)
Fidel Castro (Prime Minister of Cuba: 1959-1976, President: 19762008)

Nicolae Ceausescu (Romanian Communist Party: 19651989)

Propaganda
In the system

Freedom of Press, Freedom of Identity, Freedom of Opinions, Freedom of

("The Greatest Soviet Propaganda Posters
Gathering & Meetings, Wallstreet

(Lavin, Talia.)

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