Communism
            
             * Red Star * Communism is an ideal society that is unrealistic for humans to
             maintain. In this system major resources and means of production are owned
             by the community rather than by individuals. The society is without money,
             without a state, without property and without social classes. All people would
             contribute to the society according to their ability and take from the society
             according to their needs. Fredrick Engel's believed that a proletarian could only
             be liberated by abolishing competition, private property, and all class
             differences, and replacing it with association. The concept was derived from
             ancient sources, such as Plato's Republic and the earliest Christian communes.
             In the early 19th century, the idea of a communist society was a response to
             the poor social classes that developed during the beginning of modern
             capitalism. Communal societies have existed for centuries, yet they eventually
             failed. Throughout history, religious groups have had the most success in
             maintaining communes. The Roman Catholic Church established monasteries
             all over Europe in the middle Ages. Most of these small-scale private
             experiments involved voluntary cooperation, with everyone participating in the
             governing process. Philosophers Karl Marx and Fredric Engel influenced the
             movement of communism greatly. In the late 1800's the two discovered that
             they had individually come to ideal opinions on the perfect society. They
             collaborated their ideas in their most famous "Communist Manifesto", as well
             as many other informative pamphlets. Third World countries striving for
             national independence and social change experimented with their philosophies
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