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Communism is a system in which goods are owned in common and are

available to all as needed, a theory advocating elimination of private property.


Numerous of communism's tenets infer from the works of Karl Marx, who
with Friedrich Engels composed, The Communist Manifesto. Be that as it
may, over the a long time others have made changes or developments
depending on one's point of view on Marxist thought or indeed the impact of
cultural aspect. Thus, its implementation on a particular country varies from
the other. In correlate to this, the following are the explanation of how
Western communism differs from the Eastern.

Western communism is anchored behind Russia’s historical context and the


rise of the Soviet Union. Western’s ideological goal in achieving communism
was  centralized on the crises of superstructures as they put priority on
culture, religion, art and other things nothing to do with the production.   
Leninism as well was the core of the Western communism, a political ideology
developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the
establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary
vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.

While on the heels of Eastern Communism, the underlying principle is the


peasantry are the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather
than the proletariat or working class. As a mass-action political movement 
sorted out hierarchically, the state would control the economy and means of
production, suppress the millions of laborers, resistance and counter
insurgency, grasp collectivism in society and lead the way for an inevitable
communist society.

Correspondingly, it was following World War II, Marxist ideology, often with
Soviet military backing, spawned a rise in revolutionary communist parties all
over the world. Some of these parties were eventually able to gain power, and
establish their own version of a Marxist state. Such nations included the
People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam and others.  Many of these self-
proclaimed Marxist nations eventually became authoritarian states, with
stagnating economies.

In some cases, these countries did not get along just like the rifts happened
between the Soviet Union and China. Elsewhere, the Bolshevik Revolution
brought this to the China. This revolution influenced by Mao Zedong, for it
utilized communism as the most doctrine where they accepted as a
arrangement in elevating the economy, and it spread to other nations around
the Asia.

In addition, the communist ideas are deeply rooted by the national emotions,
and in the Asiatic countries, by a source to the Confucian tradition.
Nationalism and to some degree racism are evident in the self-reliance
ideology of the so-called Juche in North Korea. Scholars support the thesis
relating the stability of communist notions and their significance for the
forthcoming form of human relations, an alternative to capitalism. As a key
question, they are giving scrutiny to the achievement of an egalitarian society.
As a rule, this rhetoric averts an appreciation of communist ideas encouraged
in the ‘real socialism’ countries. 
Taking everything into account, what commenced in Russia, came to be a
global revolution, taking root in countries in Asia. Western communism was
influenced with the ideology of Marxism, interpreted by Lenin that believed to
centralized command economy with a vanguards one-party state to realize the
dictatorship of the proletariat. On the other hand,  eastern communism
asserted, its the peasants who will lead the revolution.  It is evident that
communism has seen a series of surges and declines. It been a more complex
and contested doctrine. This is because of the distinctions in cultural aspect
inclined that resulted to non-parallel interpretations and application of the
said doctrine.

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