Why Should The Government Replace Communism?

In December of 1991, the world watched in astonishment as the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen individual countries. This collapse was seen by the west as a triumph for freedom, victory for democracy over dictatorship, and an indication of the dominance of capitalism over socialism. The fall of the Berlin wall and the downfall of Stalinism regimes of Russia and Eastern Europe triggered a wave of ecstasy in the West. A lot of people nowadays argued that communism was dead. However, in order to understand the challenges in our global economic system, we should know that there are two important reasons as to why we should not rule out Marx and his dialectical reasons. First, we need to recognize the fact that it was the Soviet Union, not Marx, which bore the responsibility for how communism played out in the real world. We should not confuse Marx’s analysis of capitalism with the Marxian beliefs within a socialist society. Even though Marx had the analysis as well as the beliefs, it would be wrong to say that his socialism beliefs had anything to do with the existing socialist states. The second thing that has to be kept in mind is the validity
What are the alternatives to capitalism? According to Marx, he believed that the proletariats needed to organize politically, overthrow capitalism, and establish a socialist state (Marx, “The Communist Manifesto” 13). Instead of having a society where trade, industry, and all means of production were privately owned and operated for profit, we needed to set up a new society where the control of industry and all branches of production were operated by the society as a whole. Moreover, since competition in reality was merely a way for private property owners to express themselves, private property must, therefore, be abolished. In its place must come the common utilization of all means of production and distribution of products—in other words, communal possession of