What is Communism?

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What is Communism?

• A Simple Lesson

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What is Communism?
Hammer for the Workers

• This is the symbol of Communism The Hammer and
  the Sickle

Sickle for the Peasants the farm labourers
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• These guys wrote the Communist Manifesto
• Karl Marx is known as the father of Communism
• Fredrick Engels co-wrote it

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• Marx and Engels studied the history of the
  worlds economies.
• This means the way that power, industry and
  finance are controlled.
• They saw the way countries developed in stages.

Communism
Socialism
Capitalism
Feudalism
Primitive Communism
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What is Communism?
Primitive Communism

1. People lived together in small tribes
2. Primitive hunters and gathers
3. Everything was shared amongst the tribe

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1. Under feudalism, a king or emperor or chief
   rulers over everyone.

2. He gives land and privileges to nobles who
rule the people for him.
3. The people are kept uneducated and told that
god chose the king. The church helps the king
this way.
Feudalism
4. As trade develops, some people get richer.
This leads to Capitalism..
Primitive Communism
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2. Capitalists get more power to serve their own
interests.
1. The business owners capitalists get richer
while the workers do all the hard work.
Capitalism
Feudalism

• 3. Capitalism creates a huge working-class of
  people
• People get angry at the way they are treated.
  Organize unions and demand changes.
• will lead to a revolution and Socialism

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1. Because nothing is made for profit, all people
   benefit from education and health.

1. The workers take control of the country to
   produce things for everyone.

Socialism
3. These ideas spread across the world to create
Communism.
Capitalism
In a Socialist Revolution all rulers (king, etc)
are ousted
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1. The remaining capitalists put up a fight, but
the will of the people wins.
Communism
Socialism
2. As everyone now works together. Everything is
provided by the people money is a thing of the
past.
3. ALL human activity goes towards benefiting
each other