Communism.

From who's lips have you heard that communism is evil? Was it from the lips of your teachers? The mouths of your parents? The jowls of the movie screen? Have your teachers, parents, has the media ever explained to you what true communism is? Well, my friends, disliking without knowledge is simply ignorant, and as we can see, ignorance is something thoroughly promoted in this glorious country of ours.

Marxists, or communists, base their political views on their philosophical views. They practice dialectics, which is to say that they use contradictions to resolve a problem and that everything is made up of opposing forces. Dialectics also sees things at their essence, rather than simply looking at their appearance, to find that everything is relative. Change is also a big part of dialectics, and it stresses cause and effect.

To grasp dialectics might be confusing, but it can also be as easy as 1-2-3.
One - Everything is made of opposing forces.
Two- Gradual change leads to turning points where one force overcomes the other.
Three- Change moves in spirals.

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These laws hold true everywhere; science, the social theatre and psychological realm. And these true thoughts are the basis for communist philosophy.

To put Marxism-- often considered true communism-- into laymen terms is very difficult, and nearly impossible. But I will try to explain it. Marxism is a branch off of socialism, which is a very wide ideology and simply asks for the degradation of individual states and countries, and is called the intermediary between capitalism and communism. First of all, communism is a utopia. Every one's classless and equal. Marxism is the means to get to the end, as communists will say. Karl Marx believed that the proletariat must revolt, and only when the proletariat comes up against the bourgeoisie will communism start.

Now, due to American propaganda and the selfishness that goes along with capitalism, the ideals of a communist world have been trampled and tossed aside without a second look. Since the idea of collectivism threatens to take away a person's individual money, people get protective and ignorant. People also argue that communism has killed 20 million people, which is not completely true. Even though communists like Stalin and Lenin and Mao have tried to achieve communism, they haven't and ended up with totalitarian governments.

In truth, in a communist world there would be no alienation of labor, which can be translated into alienation from labor. Alienation of labor is most apparent in factory work, where you are not individually involved in your product, and can not feel pride for your work. In capitalism, labor has become a Means rather than an End. Means meaning it's become a way to get money rather than a way to live your life, or a tradition, or a cultural statement. In communism, labor is an End, meaning that you can do what ever you'd like and be able to take pride in it; labor would also be one of the main reason for you to live. Say I was a butcher today, I could be a blacksmith tomorrow. Since everyone is maintaining everyone, there's no limit to the dreams you can achieve.

Now, when it comes to brainwashing, doesn't capitalism brainwash you too? But capitalism does it for the worst, making you selfish under the guise of making it for yourself. Pulling yourSELF up by your boot straps. Capitalist governments change their information all the time, and thoroughly control their media and other forms of getting information out to the people. However, in capitalism, since there is no social class, there is no way to misinform a group of people on a widespread basis.

So, in a nutshell, communism is the equality of all people, and a higher level of consciousness. Many things can go wrong in getting to communism, but communism itself is a pure utopia.