The Causes of Communism

At the heart of Communism is a yearn for equality and freedom from the oppressive Capitalist agenda. The very fundamentals of Communism are very understandable but this social experiment always ends in disasters. “Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength”(p28, Orwell), this passage is part of a speech between Old Major and the rest of the animals in the farm. This passage effectively represents the dilemma that both the overworked laborers and the animals are facing, the exploitation of the masses for the gains of a few. To go about their new governments, both the animals and workers rebelled and overthrew their Capitalist governments and set up a Communist regime to take its place. Although their intentions were good, early Communist did not realize what had to be sacrificed to create a worker's utopia, they had to give up all their civil liberties and basically sacrificed Democracy to set up a Communist state. Both Communism and Democracy are very different but both have the same goal and thats to the universal goal to of equality. Sadly, even with the best intentions, Communism is a very dangerous threat to Democracy because even though both ideals want equality, Communism always gets rid of all civil liberties that Democracy champions to achieve this goal.