Reasons Why Communism Failed

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Social science should predict? If it does not is it actually a science? Science should explain rather than predict. There are some natural sciences (demography) that can predict but most social sciences cannot and should not predict. It should find solutions based on which future global decisions should be taken. So if the goal of IR is to explain, then there is a different challenge to it, that of why the Soviet system fell when it did? Here are the explanations of why communism failed.
1. Failure to spread world-wide and the attendant loss of optimism and legitimacy that followed
2. Failure to build up an effective alliance system to rival that of the West
3. The gradual erosion of competitiveness – civilian and military with the West
Most important and notable reason why communism collapsed is because it was not able to
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However the ways of which these issues should be encountered are not by thinking in terms of a global community but it is all states that must agree and enforce treaties to counter the ecological issues. The worst scene that might happed, (and most probable in my opinion) is that trying to solve the ecological issues will increase even more the competition bw states; and in the end they will fail.
Human rights – another global problem that grew over the past 20 years. On one hand there are the political structures that argue that governments are the prime ethical referent and source of order and justice. On the other hand there are individuals, who claim that states must yield to the implicit, egalitarian and redistributive claims of such individuals. / however it is the state who gives people HR; decides whether or not it is right or wrong; represent people on the global political platform; therefore it is the state who can anytime make any changes in HR (or any other sphere) and claim that everything is in the interest of the state and its population.

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