Title: What is Communism? Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/what-is-communism|what-is-communism]] Login Required to view? No Created: 2023-05-03 13:53:39 Updated: 2024-07-16 04:34:59 Published: 2023-07-07 01:00:00 Converted: 2025-04-14T21:24:31.881524835 ---- Simply put, Communism is the subjugation of the masses by a ruling elite. The ruling elite are the Communist party. The masses are everybody else. Communism stifles all competition and dictates who wins and who loses in business. Because Communism determines who wins and who loses, Communism is the most corrupt form of government invented. In the end the Communist party elites and their favorites win and most everybody else survive.  \\ \\ Communism promises everything to everybody in the beginning, but when the takeover is complete, the Communist party rules by virtue of its police and military might. The Communists will discriminate against whom they wish (Falun Gong in China), make millionaires of whom they wish (Russian oligarchs), enslave whom they wish (Uyghurs in China), and they will decide what you will buy and what price you will pay. You will have a social media score whereby that score will give you certain  (or no) privileges. There will be no welfare.  Everyone will have a job, but if you do not work, you do not eat. What you get paid is what the Party decides to pay you.  You will not own real property. Everything will be owned by the government. You will have a choice – subjugate yourself to party rule or do not eat. You will become a pawn of the state, you exist for the state and because of the state. Influence can be bought – if you have enough money.\\ \\ Unions are unions in name only. Step out of line and you suffer ostracism and military intervention. Your movements will be recorded and limited accordingly. Travel will be by permit only (which you can buy – if you have the money). Your income is regulated by the Party so as to allow for subsistence, but not much else. The good news?  Everybody will be equal – equaly poor, except for the ruling elites. Television stations will be limited and owned by the Party. You will see what the Party wants you to see. Because there is no advertising to pay the bills, there may be only one or two stations from which to choose.  \\ \\ Communism has been tried more than 25 times in history. Each time it has failed. Why? Could it be that the Communist Party cannot plan well enough to meet everyone’s wants and needs? Can the Party determine what everyone needs? As only the ruling elites are rewarded, need is something defined by the Party. There is no perfect government, but Capitalism comes as close as is possible.  No matter what form of government, if you have favors to grant, you are subject to corruption.\\ \\ In Capitalism the free market determines who wins and who loses. As long as government does not regulate who wins and who loses, the people win. As long as we have government who dispenses favors, there will be corruption.\\ \\ Communism stifles free thinkers and the doers that make things happen.  Communism rewards those people who want to do the absolute minimum. Russia is a second world country with a first-rate military.  Why has the United States economically out performed every Communist country and most other countries in the world? Could it be that we have the freedom and liberty to forge our own lives and pursue the gains for which we have individually earned?\\ \\ Most young people do not have the depth of experience to winnow fact from fiction. Think back when you were young (21 years old).  How worldly were you? Did idealism pervade your thinking?  Were you eagerly anticipating your working career so that you could make your mark in the world?  Communists prey on ideology to promise wonderful things that never happen. Equality? Yes, everybody is equal except when favored by the ruling elite. Freedom? Yes, when it suits the ruling elite.  Liberty? Yes, as long as it does not infringe upon the liberties of the ruling elite, which they determine.\\ \\ The best form of government is the government that rule least. Stifling regulations decide who has an advantage. Beware of the regulations that “are for your own good” or for “the good of the world or the environment.”  Ask why these regulations are “good for us.”  Question everything and demand answers.  Representatives of the people (The President, Senators, and Representatives) should work for the benefit of the people – not for the benefit of themselves.\\ \\ It is time for term limits of Congressmen.  It is time for balancing the budget so that outgo is determined by income. Congress should do its job and not defer to the Deep State to govern our lives. It is time to limit the power of the presidency – to provide for a check and balance. It is time to limit the power of the government.  The Founders of this nation were most concerned with a government that could gain too much power.  As such The Constitution of these United States attempted to limit the power of a national government and bring control closer to the people.  Amendment 10 states “**The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution**, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  It is The Constitution that protects the people, not the government.\\ \\ Is it not time to call for a Convention of States under Article V of The Constitution for the purpose of bringing back control to us, the people?