What is Communism?

A Simple Lesson

What is Communism?
This is the symbol of Communism The Hammer and the Sickle
Hammer for the Workers Sickle for the Peasants the farm labourers

Who are these guys?

What is Communism?
Those guys wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1 !"# $ts a short book but billions of people have read it#

This is Karl Marx, the Father of Communism Peo!le "ho belie#e in his i$eas are calle$ Marxists

This is his goo$ frien$, Fre$erick %ngels

What is Communism?
Mar% and &ngels studied the history of the worlds economies# This means the way that power' industry and finance are controlled# They saw the way countries developed in stages# Communism

Socialism

Ca!italism Feu$alism Primiti#e Communism

%x!lain these !lease&

What is Communism?

Primiti#e Communism

This is how humans first lived together in small tribes# (rimitive means not very advanced e#g# hunting and gathering# Communism means that everything was shared amongst the tribe food' )obs' belongings# *o+one owned land# &ventually a group comes to power this leads to ,eudalism

What is Communism?
-nder feudalism' a king or emperor or chief becomes the ruler over all the people# He gives land and privileges to nobles who rule the people for him#

,eudalism

(rimitive Communism

The people are kept uneducated and told that god chose the king to rule# The church helps the king this way#

As trade develops' some people get richer# This leads to Capitalism##

What is Communism?
The capitalists get more power to serve their own interests#

The business owners or capitalists get richer while the workers do all the hard work#

Capitalism

,eudalism

Capitalism creates a huge working+ class of people who soon get angry at the way they are treated# They organise in unions and demand changes# This will lead to a revolution and Socialism

What is Communism?
The workers take control of the country to produce things for everyone# .ecause nothing is made for profit' all people benefit from education and health# Socialism These ideas spread across the world to create Communism#

Capitalism

$n the Socialist revolution all the rulers kings' churches' capitalists are got rid of#

The remaining capitalists put up a bitter fight' but the will of the people will always win#

What is Communism?
Communism

Socialism

As everyone now works together' war is a thing of the past armies are not needed# Sharing means no police are needed# &verything is provided by the people so money becomes a thing of the past#

All human activity goes towards benefiting each other allowing all to live their lives to the full#

What is Communism? Note Sheet.

Communism - a government where people shared work fairly and were paid equally. The word Communism !omes from the "atin word Communis whi!h means !ommon or #elonging to all.

The $eliefs of Communism

The ri!h get ri!her. The poor get poorer. %eople wanted to make everything equal. %eople never er a!hieved the goal.

The &oal of Communism

Goal: to get rid of so!ial !lasses and make everything fair for everyone.

USS'
USSR stands for( Union of Soviet So!ialist 'epu#li!s. The USS' was formed in )e!em#er *+,,. USS' a.k.a. 'ussia. The USS' is a Communist party. The USS' !ollapsed in *++*.

5 -ey %oints
Communism is the government when everything is distri#uted equally. )i!tatorship is the government when a group or one person has !ontrol over everyone. The Cold War is when there was tension #etween the U.S and the Soviet Union. The #eginning of !ommunism through the .ndustrial 'evolution. U.S.S.'. goal to e/pand !ommunism through the !ountries.