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November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failures of capitalism are considered temporary and episodic? In __The Idea of Communism__, Tariq Ali addresses this very question. The idea of Communism, argues Ali, was simple and noble. __The Communist Manifesto__, which advocated the creation of a society based on the principle of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” rather than a system based on greed and profit, appealed to millions all over the globe. However, Ali argues that the vision of society adumbrated by the founders of Communism was a far cry from what became known as actually existing socialism in the Soviet Union and China. The Communist system that developed ignored Engels’s belief that a workers’ movement and its victory were inconceivable without freedom of the press and assembly. This freedom, Engels insisted, “is the air it needs to breathe. Here, in a thought-provoking re-evaluation, Ali argues that a new form of socialism and global plann

Who reads The Idea of Communism (What Was Communism?)?

Author

Tariq Ali

Publisher

Seagull; Seagull Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781906497262

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.44 / 5 (66 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14