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Today communism is the official form of government in only five countries: China, North Korea, Laos, Cuba, and Vietnam. However, none of these meet the true definition of communism. Instead, they can be said to be in a transitional stage between the end of capitalism and the establishment of communism.
Communism is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public. There is no government or private property or currency, and the wealth is divided among citizens equally or according to individual need.
What is communism? Which countries are communist? How is communism different from socialism? What are the origins of communism? Who was Mao Zedong?
What is communism? Which countries are communist? How is communism different from socialism? What are the origins of communism? Who was Mao Zedong?
Today communism is the official form of government in only five countries: China, North Korea, Laos, Cuba, and Vietnam. However, none of these meet the true definition of communism. Instead, they can be said to be in a transitional stage between the end of capitalism and the establishment of communism.
Communism is a type of government as well as an economic system (a way of creating and sharing wealth). In a Communist system, individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things.
communism, Political theory advocating community ownership of all property, the benefits of which are to be shared by all according to the needs of each.
In its most common usage, the term communism refers to the type of ideal society envisioned by the 19th-century German revolutionary Karl Marx or to forms of government based on Marx’s ideas that were established in Russia, China, and other countries in the 20th century.
Communist Party, Political party organized to facilitate the transition of society from capitalism through socialism to communism. Russia was the first country in which communists came to power (1917).
Eastern bloc, group of eastern European countries that were aligned militarily, politically, economically, and culturally with the Soviet Union approximately from 1945 to 1990. Members included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.