How Did Communism Fail

Communism is the political ideology that advocates a society with public ownership and the workingman is paid based on their abilities and needs. The idea for Communism, although well known before them, officially started with both Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in The Communist Manifesto, where they outlined their idea of complete equality between the people. Communism is great in theory, however historically it has failed as a way to govern a community. To have a community in which there is no social class seems to be the ideal way of living, and to many, it was. Everyone wants to be paid according to the work they have accomplished, so those who do not work do not earn as much. With a community following this theory, power would be distributed
However, it has not proven to be successful. According to the documentary The Rise and Fall of Socialism, the first communist experiment in Paris left 18’000 people dead. Another example of communism failing is the city New Harmony. New Harmony was a city bought by Robert Owen in hope to be a successful communist populace. It soon was dissolved as it was filled with idealists, but no one would fulfill their goals. These are only a few of the example of the failure of communism. Equality is one of the most desired things in the world, but communism is not the way to achieve it. The ideals and beliefs of the system are reasonable and understandable, but something about the practice of communism makes these goals fail. Realistically, the ideology has been proven to not be effective, and that it should be altered, if not completely dissolved. Communism has a beneficial core to its ideals, but in practice has been proven to lead to failure. Whether it was in Europe or North America, a part of the Bolshevik party or New Harmony, communism has been a failed system, and until it has been updated, it should be left behind in the history