Does communism have any value in the present times?

United Arab Emirates
April 4, 2007 5:30am CST
Communism is a ideology which seeks to eashtablish, a classless and stateless socirty where there will be no rich or poor, rather there will be no differences between rich and poor. Ummm, it sounds nice. But do you think it has really worked? Or is it a total failure, whether in Russia, Germany, China or India?
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• India
4 Apr 07
communism as an ideology will have its values enshrined in all political classes throughout human history, but practically it will never be feasible as long as human beings have greed in themselves. greed in one of the six cardinal sins of human beings and communism aims to wipe it away, which is impossible. communism aims to create a classless society where nobody will be jealous of each other, nobody will try to surpass each other and wealth will be divided equally. c'mon you can't make small children to be selfless, no matter how much you tell them to share, how can you expect adults to be selfless? another thing i dislike about communism is totalitarian control of the state over individual lives. why should i tell others who visits my house, from where and when? but that's what you are expected to do in a communist country. i also dislike the throttling of individual talent and individual entrepreneurship. a country and its people can never truly grow like this. if you go on feeding and clothing a child even after he becomes a man, will he ever stand on his feet? he can become a good slave but never a master of his own destiny. i think that's what communism tries to create... slaves for the state. but i don't think Marks & Engels had wanted it this way. their intentions were definitely noble, but somehow down the line of implementation, it got entangled in human greed and the basic essence of it was lost.