Pros And Cons Of Communism

If you look at a world map today, you will see an overwhelming majority of countries implementing capitalist ideals and many of them have become very successful. However, very few still apply communist ideals, in contrast to the many countries who tried such forms of government in the 20th century. It is my belief that although communism may not be a bad idea all together, it is still a flawed system that cannot work, and a free market system is better. One reason Communism does not work is because it is human nature to be better or worse than someone else. The basis of Communism is that all people are equal in a society and should have equal food, work and housing. At first this may seem like a good idea that could perhaps work, but human nature is to strive to be better than oneself or another. So if equalness is created amongst a society, where every person has the same income, food and opportunities, it cannot work. People are too eager to be better than others, so corruption can easily form. This is why, in my opinion, capitalist societies thrive, because it …show more content…
One of the big reasons capitalism aids the government is because people are given chances to run businesses or contribute to them at will. This gives the government chances to tax the businesses income, while the rest goes to the business owners, who eventually spend that money, and a steady flow of money from people to businesses to government is established. In communism however, the businesses are all government owned, and although the government is making all the profit, they must flush that income back to the people so that they will spend the money at the government businesses. In this system, the people are making no income, and the government is having to give money for the people to spend into the economy, instead of the government making profit, and the people making profit of their