The Great Debate, a little late

As most people know, Communism still exists in our world today, some people still agree with it and some or lots do not. Communism moments have won several countries across the world and mainly in Africa and Asia.
The big debate between the two sides however is whether communism is good thing and how it relates to democracy as a governing tool. The idea of communism is hard for people such as Americans to understand sometimes because it introduces the idea that everybody is equal and there is no groups or minorities in a communism driven country. One side of the spectrum believes this is impossible however and they have proof to back it up even. There is no possible way that everyone can be economically equal in any country because how would anybody be able to govern them, they would have to govern themselves and have so many rules that make it so the neighbor to your left has just as many possessions as the neighbor to your right. "This is never possible because humans always have the desire to be better and achieve greater standing."(Aslund, 1997) Also, in Soviet Russia, Stalin gained power and prevented the Soviet people too much but taking out his competition for the rule of Russia. Communism allowed him to create special secret police forces such as the KGB to take out people going against him keeping the Russian people living in fear of speaking out and going against him.
There is not much of a plus side when looking at communism however it seems like China is doing okay at the moment. Russia could have succeeded with their government yet the leaders were given too much power and the economic to a huge fall during the Cold War because few goods were going in and out of the country. Do not get any of this wrong though, the idea of communism gives hope to people that there could be a perfect world and that capitalism will be taken out by socialism in the future. The course of our future according to Karl Marx is determined by the clash of opposing forces rooted in the economic system and the ownership of property.(Barrett, 1999)
There is no right or wrong when comparing government ideas and the way countries work, only personal opinions and history shows what has proved to work and what has failed. There is no way to know what our future holds for the world and for our democracy; only time will tell.


Aslund, Anders, Russia after Communism (1997)
Barrett, Thomas, ed., China, Marxism, and Democracy (1999)