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7 Critiques

Critiques of "communist states" are to be found at: Communist state - Criticism and Advocacy.

7.1 Economic development

Critics of communism say it would be impossible for a communist society to plan its own economy.

7.2 Human nature

One line of criticism of communism has always been that it ignores (or is wrong about) human nature -- for example, that it would remove incentives necessary for productivity, or that it requires greater rationality or wisdom for the planners, or voters, or workers' council members, than is consistent with the bounded rationality of the species.

8 Related topics

• Anarchism
• Anti-communism
• Communist state
• Communist party
• Council communism
• De Leonism
• Eurocommunism
• Festa del' unità
• Left communism
• Leninism
• Libertarian socialism
• Maoism
• Marxism
• Political models
• Post-Communism
• Situationism
• Socialism
• Stalinism
• Syndicalism
• Trotskyism

8.1 Personalia

• List of socialists
• List of Trotskyists
• Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Josef Stalin
• Antonio Gramsci
• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Fidel Castro, Che Guevara
• Salvador Allende
• Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin (libertanian socialism)
• Daniel De Leon

9 Further reading

• Rodney Carlisle and James H. Lide, Complete Idiot's Guide to Communism, Alpha Books, March, 2002, trade paperback, 362 pages, BooksEnthsiast.com
• Francois and Deborah Furet, Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, University of Chicago Press, 1999, hardcover, 506 pages, BooksEnthsiast.com

10 External links

10.1 Online resources for original Marxist literature

• Marxists Internet Archive
• Marxist.net
• Theses on Feuerbach
• Principles of Communism
• The Communist Manifesto
• The Civil War in France
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
• Reform or Revolution?
• What is to be Done?
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
• Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
• The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
• Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
• The State and Revolution
• The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
• The Tasks of the Proletariat In Our Revolution
• Communism is not exactly dead!
• Economic and social roots of Communism

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