Difference Between Communism And Marx's Concept Of Communism

It should not be surprising nowadays that Karl Marx’s name is often associated with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. After all, the USSR’s ideology was based on Marx’s ideas that were highlighted in his and Friedrich Engels’s “Communist Manifesto”. Consequently, it may seem that Marx’s idea of Communism and Soviet Communism are very similar. However, it is important to understand that Soviet Leaders only interpreted most of these ideas (Raico, 2010). As a result, there are undoubtedly some discrepancies that make these two ideas of communism quite different. Therefore, in order to find out how close was the Soviet Communism to Marx’s ideas, ten principles of communism, that are mentioned in “Communist Manifesto” and concern property,

According to him, inheritance is only the change of people who have the “power of transferring the produce of one man’s labor into another man’s pocket” (Marx, 1869). This can be treated as one of the most obvious difference between the Marx’s idea of Communism and Soviet Communism because, although these rights were abolished by Bolsheviks in 1917 (Kimura, 1970), the inheritance of personal property and distribution of wealth between heirs by will were finally permitted in the mid-20th century (Swann,

Samuel Hollander (2008) agrees with Marx’s idea and claims that, through the improvement of old factories and building of new ones, the relative employment decreases but the net number of workers increases. Also, in “Capital” (1894, Vol. 3) Marx highlighted that improving the soil makes the land more productive than it was before. As a consequence, in the Soviet Union five-year plans were introduced whose main goals were to expand an industry that produces the means of production and to increase the capabilities of agriculture (Obolensky-Ossinsky, 1935). Moreover, in 1953 some laws were enforced in order to increase the production on existing land and expand “the area under cultivation, in order to achieve a cheap and quick increase in grain production” (Harris, 1955). Therefore, it is clear that Soviet five-year plan’s aims were similar to the ones of the Marx’s common