Communism & Why it Failed

At first when you think about it; why its people thought it made sense to them it was very attractive in the beginning. However, as I learned more and more about "Communism" and why it has failed for China and Russia, basically it did not give their people the ammo to grow as a nation and as an individual. They were governed in a way of how to think, talk, act and although woman reforms were a little attractive, still these countries lacked growth in their peoples. Technology and education was not celebrated and current. Basically, by closing its doors and not having new investors in their countries really impacted these communist countries. Even the communist leaders knew that private enterprise was good and when they learned of other countries/nations growing, they knew it was here to stay.

We all know that people under communism had little faith in any industrial enterprise or banks that was ran by the state. We all know that government ownership means party control. All this was a giant failure for all of us to see. I believe the main reason it failed; Communism failed because it could not proved a decent standard of living for its people, people were suppressed by the governments. People waiting in lines with vouchers for bread or food or for material was just a control factor. This had to change; the Soviet Union and China was always lagging further and further behind it's neighbors. People eventually get frustrated with their standards of living and it's in our nature to want to grow from within and better ourselves and our communities and societies and further more our countries. Of course it was going to fail..........

Echoes of Revolution

Still today you see the global significance in the world from the Atlantic Revolutions. They expressed ideas of republicanism, social equality and national liberation from all and any foreign rule. Abolitionists sought to end slavery and nationalists had hoped to do away with disunity and as well with foreign rule. Along with feminist tried to end or mitigate male dominance but that is still a ongoing process because of of today, it's still a male dominated country in the U.S.

All of these movements bore the marks of the Atlantic revolutions, even though they started in Europe they came to have a global significance.

One of the most remarkable things I read and never knew about was: "The Haitian Revolution, 1791 - 1804."  There were about 500,000 slaves in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue, now "Haiti" and was one of the riches colonies in the world due to plantation corps. It had produced 40% of the worlds sugar and about 1/2 of the worlds coffee. Whites there were only about 40,000 and given it's enormous inequalities and it's rampant exploitation, it was destined for disaster and primed for explosion.

There had been rumors of the King declaring ending all slavery in Haiti. This started the revolt within the slaves, the promise of the French Revolution's ideas was a personal freedom that threatened the entire slave labor system. The slaves themselves, burned 1,000 plantations and killed hundred of whites as well as mix-race people. This revolution was very unique to the Atlantic world and in world history. I was amazed to learned that such a small island had become the "FIRST" and "ONLY" completely successful slave revolt in world history.

The slaves became equal, free and independent citizens. They had renamed their country Haiti, meaning "Mountainous" or "rugged"