communism and poverty

in early 1848, in london, a 29 year old German philosopher Karl Marx, along with his 27 year old textile-manufacturer friend Friedrich Engels published the pamphlets later famously known as the Communist Manifesto. Days later, revolutions broke first in France, removing the French monarchy, and later in some other parts in Europe..

"a dictator is there to control the revolution; a revolution is there to put in a dictator.."

now, despite the fact that the practise of communism in itself has been altered and the system of running changed varying to different former communist nations prior to the breakup of the Berlin wall and China's first direct civilian flight to US on a commercial plane(2 of the many examples of the beginning of a softening communist grip and a more capitalist entry), there are still the infamous North Korea that has still been making the Headlines in global news.

nationalist, monarchy and democratic nations' governments fear poverty
but communist nations' governments fear wealth..

the reason for many uprisings against leadership in many countries in the early part of the 20th century was mainly led by the middle class..okay let me tell you this first..the world has been circling around this 'imaginary' system of the 3 caste or group. There are firstly the richest and most powerful group but has the least percentage population, second is the middle class with the average wealth and power, third is the poorest and least educated people.
all along since the first society appear, the first group has always wanted to hold onto that place for as long as possible, the second always wanting to fight for the place of the first group and the last eyeing only at most for a spot in the 2nd group. Most of time the 2nd group, due to lack of financial resource or military power, resort to using,mis-leading and 'cheating' the 3rd group into pushing the 1st group out of power on the pretext of fighting for the rights of the 3rd group, and after that, kicking the 3rd group back to where they once were after assuming power. And due to the fact that they don't want people to overthrow or revenge them, they control the nations with an iron fist, eliminating former 1st group members and even friends in the 2nd group which may oppose or capable of opposing them. These were what happened to almost all of the communist nation in the beginning..decades of purges, executions, labour camps,the secret police breaking into homes at night, disappearance of people and breakdown of families...

the new leaders, the once 2nd group people knew this very well themselves as they were once a part of it in the widely proven belief : when people have the free time, luxury of having enough food, wealth in their pockets, they will start to want to THINK for themselves and challenge the leadership.

sure, at least 7 large-scale and major famines had struck the few communist states altogether since their beginning and most outsiders believed that it was due to these famines and other natural disasters that cause these nations to be poor and having a starving population when the communist grip was at its peak..

THINK AGAIN...

from the earlier passage i did mention about the new rulers fearing the revenge of the others, so even if there are no disaster of famines... i firmly believe they will do whatever it takes to make sure the distribution of products/ rations are always a lot less than necessary, leaving the population to starvation rather than with any inch of an abundance.
in simple terms, by continuing creating a starving population, people will have to work harder and longer hours at the industrials and agriculture work rather than thinking about overthrowing the government...agree?
so now..what about the "WEALTH" mentioned earlier..well they manage to direct the extra product produced that month into the military and continuing creating a very unsecure and pre-war environment with an enemy so that it creates that unity and loyalty to the nation(seldom found in peace time nations) and that anyone who dares to oppose the meagre rationing has a simple charges to him: treason. The rest of it, ie the complains and bitter remarks on the communist government by individuals, are taken care of by the secret police, and even the fear of denouncing by even your children(who has been sent to special boot camps to be brainwashed) to the police is enough to make everyone keep quiet during the 'golden days' of communism.
this may be one of the jigsaw puzzle piece to why news reports of millions of children being malnourished and starving to death since the first communist nation began(namely the former soviet union), never stops leaking to the outside world.

i will tell the early days and prior to world war 1 in the nxt passage...err...soon as i can