As diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States improve we wanted to look at the political philosophy behind. The long embargoed nation Cuba is one of the last communist dictatorships left in the world and since extreme anti-communist sentiments in the mid 20th century the philosophy has been a regular fixture in political discussions.so we wanted to know what exactly is communism.

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Communism:

well there are a number of overlapping philosophies and socio-economic systems that can be described as communist in nature but in the most basic sense communism is when all manufacturing or means of production are equally owned by all the members of a state the intended result is to eliminate the capitalists inspired class system.

Capitalists class system:

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where one class does all the work and the other gets all the money.

Philosophers of communism:

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The most common form of communism comes from the work of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in what is today known as Marxism. In particular Marxism is focused on the exploitation of the worker. it's based on the idea that any profit generated by the worker but instead goes to the business owner is a form of inequality and should be abolished.

Socialism vs Communism:

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In recent history several countries including the USSR, China, Vietnam and Cuba have attempted to institute their own versions of communism however all can be said to be predominantly socialist and not communist. The biggest difference between the two is that socialism says that all workers should get an equal share in profit and property while communism says that there shouldn't be money or ownership in general and everyone should get as much as they need and work as
much as they can.

Criticism:

• Unfortunately attempts to achieve this political philosophy have led to lower standards of living government corruption and in the case of the USSR total collapse and failure a number of reasons have been put forth as to why communism hasn't worked out historically.
• The strongest criticism of the philosophy is that communism removes the incentive for people to work they absolutely have to it also leads to resentment of those who work less hard but received the same in general.