However, this part of the workers’ revolution does not last forever and a second part of occurs in which they workers transition towards communism and socialism. Communism, according to Marx, puts the “means of production” in the hands of those who are the sole producers of the materials and wealth, the proletariat (Brians, “Marx and Engels the Communist Manifesto). This brings society into a positive direction because it allows each person to work according to his ability and needs and makes everyone part of the same working class. It also allows society to function with a reward system that properly motivates workers and makes room for public ownership, planned production, and more. Even with socialism, which is the next step after communism,
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However, after Marx’s death in 1883, a divide occurred between parts of society which advocated for the socialist reformation to occur within the already existing bourgeois government and those who argued for a completely new government transformation. The later group were the communists and argued that there needed to be a revolution and destruction of the capitalistic state in order for a socialistic society to be successful. Communists were victorious in developing a system in which the economy presented fair opportunities towards everyone. That success continued to reign and was adopted by Russia under Vladimir Lenin. In October of 1917, a revolution led by Vladimir Lenin led to the first large scale attempt at implementing Marxist’s socialist ideas about a workers’ state into practice. The Lenin government faced many challenges in the process of implementation, including counter-revolutions, civil wars, and foreign intervention. Even in the midst of those challenges, Lenin was able to overthrow capitalism in Russia by first introducing socialism into the already functioning government system and then, once the capitalist had all withered away, implement a pure communistic system (http://cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/m/Marxism.htm). “Lenin reiterates that ‘excesses’ will vanish with socialist prosperity. Freed from capitalist slavery ... people will gradually become accustomed to the observation of the elementary rules of social life’” (Raico, “Marx’s Theory of Stages: The Withering Away of the State Under
However, after Marx’s death in 1883, a divide occurred between parts of society which advocated for the socialist reformation to occur within the already existing bourgeois government and those who argued for a completely new government transformation. The later group were the communists and argued that there needed to be a revolution and destruction of the capitalistic state in order for a socialistic society to be successful. Communists were victorious in developing a system in which the economy presented fair opportunities towards everyone. That success continued to reign and was adopted by Russia under Vladimir Lenin. In October of 1917, a revolution led by Vladimir Lenin led to the first large scale attempt at implementing Marxist’s socialist ideas about a workers’ state into practice. The Lenin government faced many challenges in the process of implementation, including counter-revolutions, civil wars, and foreign intervention. Even in the midst of those challenges, Lenin was able to overthrow capitalism in Russia by first introducing socialism into the already functioning government system and then, once the capitalist had all withered away, implement a pure communistic system (http://cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/m/Marxism.htm). “Lenin reiterates that ‘excesses’ will vanish with socialist prosperity. Freed from capitalist slavery ... people will gradually become accustomed to the observation of the elementary rules of social life’” (Raico, “Marx’s Theory of Stages: The Withering Away of the State Under