Communism is defined by Webster as a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all that’s needed, also as a theory advocating elimination of private property. “Communism is thus a form of socialism- a higher and more advanced form” (Dagger 1). Socialism is what many logical people believe as a good thing and communism is just a form of socialism, yet why do so many people use the term communist and see communistic countries as bad or negative things. Perhaps it is because the people who view it as negative have no clue what is was initially intended to be and how it has been created, changes and view throughout history and moderation. The term communism that we know now was not used until the 1840’s but it has been a concept for a long as the fourth century BC. Fictional Utopias that have very strong communistic like qualities have been written about and idealized …show more content…
Communism in many forms has spread around the world; Stalin installed communist parties in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, and Albania. The Soviet Union influenced Easter Europe and a lot of countries in Asia, and Marxist-Lenin has played role in all of them. Mao Zedong even in 1967 ruled by a communist party, called the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mao created his own form of communism called Maoism; this however was far from what Marx’s original idea of communism was supposed to be. Mao’s wanted to change Marx’s idea of having better and equal working class with a “proletarian nation of agricultural peasants exploited by capitalist countries” (Dagger 12). Mao also took his own take on Stalin’s policy of forced industrialism, by forcing people to work in small-scale factories to make steel, which was later a massive fail and many people in China starved to