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Communism is 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 the shared equally as well, and the benefits of labor are distributed according to need.
Under such a System, All people would
be equal, without class stratification.Althrough the basic idea
of communism has existed since the time of Plato, modern communism
is identified with the system of government described by Karl
Marx and Fredrich Engels in the "Communist Manifest".
They believe that capitalistic systems, in whitch the rich upper
class prospered through the exploitation of the powerless lower
class, were bound to destroy themselves. At this point, the poor
would rebel against their former opressors and form classless
society. This prophecy has never come true, and countried who
have attempted to base their governments on communism has ultimately
failed to achieve the utopia described by Marx and Engels