It's not hard to see WHY the vast majority of the Western World are against the political ideology of Socialism and Communism - one only had to look at the past to see the terrors of the world committed by Communist and Socialist governments, from the National Socialist "Third Reich" to the Communist Stalinist period in Soviet Russia.
Still people refuse to look at certain communities that were Socialist or Communist in the past and got on just fine! Sure, they were not Marxist because this was before Marx, Engels and "The Communist Manifesto", but it is all still the same. Three I can pick from the top of my head - and all three are also deeply religious communities also, so keep this in mind if you are religious and feel that ALL Communist and Socialist way of life is anti-God.
Number one starts when Christianity started - the time of the Apostles - who lived in a fairly Communist way. Same as the early Latter-Day Saints and even up to this current period in time, there are many other communes in the world which are some of the best places to live for many people in the world. There are the Amish, there are also small communes that not many people know about that exist even in Australia, such as "Fairy Land", in New South Wales near Nimbin.
The Western World was going through the biggest change in history since the Protestant Reformation at the time of Marx, Engels and "The Communist Manifesto". Roughly one-hundred years before "The Manifesto" was published, the French Revolution occured, with The People overthrowing the Monarchy and eventually, after much bloodshed, wars and evil leaders, abolished the absolute monarchy and aristocracy, replacing it with a republic system.
Towards the start of the 20th century, not long after "The Manifesto" was published and distributed throughout Europe, the world was going to see the two largest wars in history. Countries such as Germany were in great depression and in need of a great leader - or a saviour, as they saw him - such as Adolf Hitler. Life was great for many German's, except the minorities, in pre-war Nazi Germany.
In Russia, the exiled-lawyer, Vladimir Lenin, returned and just as the French had done some one-hundred years earlier, the Russian aristocracy and monarchy was overthrown. The Kremlin, one the house of the Czar, became the Russian "White House" and still is to this day.
Here's an interesting little fact for you... the first country in the world to lift the ban on homosexuality was indeed the Soviet Union! Strange you may say because Stalin was such an iron-fisted ruler with very little tolerance, however this took place before Stalin became the leader, after the death of Lenin. What would the world be like had Stalin not taken his place, but Trotsky instead? Would the world have seen Communism and Socialism in a different light? Maybe, maybe not.
The thing to remember here is that the world was in chaos at that time, the countries who adopted the new practice of Communism and Socialism had a radical change in a short span of time. The leaders had to protect the country from invasion and economic hardship, so it's not hard to see why the leaders were Hitler's and Stalin's.
In the Western World, many people still haven't gotten past the thought and conviction that Communism and Socialism are bad ideologies that don't work because they only look to the period of time which was in utter chaos! Today there still remains many old slogans that were in use by the Western Democracies during the 1950's such as "Better to be dead than a Red" and others.
Many religious people see it as nothing more than replacing God with ones-self. I get many emails from fellow Catholic's telling me how evil Communism is for instance, with a link to a video on Communism by famous people in historical media such as Bishop Fulton Sheen et cetera.
The truth is, take a look at the world of today - it is just as evil. We all suffer because of the Western Democracy! The poorest countries are suffering because of global warming, which they didn't contribute much at all to creating this problem! People are starving and living on the streets because of the increase in EVERYTHING all because of what? The economic crisis of Wall Street in the Great Depression, also in the recent recession of 2009! Why do the poor have to suffer because of the greed of the big fat-cat capitalists? They lose millions, sure, but at the end of the day they sit down in their mansions, eating lobster and turkey for dinner, crying poor because they're no longer multi-billionaires, but simply "mere" millionaires... at the same time, the poor and the working class have to go without many of their basic needs because of the price hike in everything.
When will people see through the evils of capitalism? When will people start looking towards alternative political systems that are there for humanity? For women, for gays and other minorities, for the environment. The answer is - they won't! Why? Because the world has been brainwashed into loving the capitalist system, even the poorest of the poor, because everyone has the hope and dream that one day they will have money - the house, the sports car and the 2.5 kids who they will privately educate.
Communism and Socialism may have been evil in the past - but they were also good in the past in certain instances. What of capitalist society? They have been evil too! They just hide things with their propaganda and blame someone else.
CAPITALISM SUCKS!!!
And yes, I will still stand by this thought, even when I have heaps of money one day. I will never be one of those capitalists who puts all their money into the air on things such as the stock market and other ways of getting "fast cash". To hell with it! You need to understand those things properly in order to gain money, and even if you do understand it, you end up losing out because the fat cats at the top just take it all.
If a quater of the people in the country decided "to hell with the banks et cetera" and went in to close their accounts and withdraw their cash to put in a safe, imagine the chaos, simply because the money is simply a figure, not real. They would be able to give the first people in their money, but after a while, it all dries out, then what? Go print more money at the mint? No. Simply create a new law saying people must have bank accounts with savings in there. The chaos would then be blamed on the Communists and Socialists of the world, and the majority once again see this not as a personal attack on an innocent system, but simply as an evil political ideology that should have been banned with the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
