Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options answers only not deleted user 37945

An ideology derived from socialist theory of the nineteenth century. Communism defines a condition in which socialist development has lead to the virtual elimination of economic class. This is ultimately achieved by worker ownership and control of the means of production (defined as the tools & facilities which produce goods). Throughout the 20th century multiple nation states claimed either to have achieved communism or to have been developing it.

0 votes

Would there have been racially mixed student bodies in schools in communist Bulgaria?

Children of diplomats often go to embassy schools that are completely separate from local schools. See e.g. the history of German schools in Moscow here. Like other Eastern European countries, Bulgari …
Jan's user avatar
  • 9,405
2 votes

What is 'real socialism'?

I.e. not the utopian socialism or communism described in Marx' works, but something that comes very close and has been/ can be realistically achieved. …
Jan's user avatar
  • 9,405
14 votes

Why would people join a bloc party?

For practical matters and in East Germany, the benefits from being a member of a bloc party were actually not so different from being a member of the real ruling party. Party membership (either in the …
Jan's user avatar
  • 9,405
43 votes

Why wasn’t the USSR “rebranded” communist?

The reason is that there are two different concepts that are named "communism". One is the final stage in the Marxist(-Leninist?) … They were still in the transition between Capitalism and Communism, i.e. in the Socialist phase of development. …
Jan's user avatar
  • 9,405
3 votes

Why did China and some other communist countries boycot the 1980 Summer Olympics?

After Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in late 1979 marked another instance of the Soviet Union invading countries ruled by communists. Therefore it was natural for non-Soviet-a …
Jan's user avatar
  • 9,405
13 votes

Why did the communist Khmer Rouge use a religious image in their flag?

If you compare the flags of other countries before communists took power and afterwards, you actually see quite a bit of continuity. Yes, the Soviet Union and China conpletely changed their flags, but …
Jan's user avatar
  • 9,405