Communism

By Haydn Bennett
Overview
Principles of Communism

- Communism may be summed up in one

sentence: Abolish all private property.
- From each according to his abilities, to each
according to his needs.
- Workers of the world unite. (Proletariat)

Karl Marx

Vladimir Lenin
1848 1867 1909 1917

Joseph Stalin
Overview
Principles of Communism - Class Struggle

- The more the division of labor and the

application of machinery extend, the more does
competition extend among the workers, the
more do their wages shrink together
- Capitalist production, therefore, develops
technology, and the combining together of
various processes into a social whole, only by
sapping the original sources of all wealth - the
soil and the labourer.

Colt Peacemaker
1873
The Revolution
What Happened?

- The goal of socialism is communism.

- there is only one way in which the
murderous death agonies of the old society
and the bloody birth throes of the new society
can be shortened, simplified and
concentrated, and that way is revolutionary
terror.
- The meaning of peace is the absence of
opposition to socialism.
 Overview
Principles of Communism - 10 Planks

1. Abolition of Property in Land and Application of all Rents of Land to Public Purpose.
2. A Heavy Progressive or Graduated Income Tax.
3. Abolition of All Rights of Inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the Property of All Emigrants and Rebels.
5. Centralization of Credit in the Hands of the State, by Means of a National Bank with State Capital and
an Exclusive Monopoly.
6. Centralization of the Means of Communication and Transport in the Hands of the State.
7. Extension of Factories and Instruments of Production Owned by the State, the Bringing Into
Cultivation of Waste Lands, and the Improvement of the Soil Generally in Accordance with a Common
Plan.
8. Equal Liability of All to Labor. Establishment of Industrial Armies, Especially for Agriculture.
9. Combination of Agriculture with Manufacturing Industries; Gradual Abolition of the Distinction Between
Town and Country by a More Equable Distribution of the Population over the Country.
10. Free Education for All Children in Public Schools. Abolition of Children's Factory Labor in its Present
Form. Combination of Education with Industrial Production.
Government Structure
Outline of U.S.S.R Structure