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Will Rogers once stated, “Communism is like prohibition; it’s a good idea but it won’t work.� Since it’s inception in mid 1800’s, Communism has been an idea that has had its ups and downs. Based on the idea of eliminating class antagonism, Communism is a synthesis of two separate entities. In a class system there exist owners and workers. Owners control the majority of the wealth and means of production. These persons were referred to as the bourgeoisie where as the workers, who only earned a small wage, were known as the proletariat. These two units can be seen as a thesis and antithesis, and by combining these two a synthesis, or in this case Communism, was created.
Communism is against the ownership of private property. This alone is debatable enough for an entire paper. Privacy and private property is a staple of Capitalism and in our society here in the United States, relatively impossible to relinquish. Philosopher Peter Singer believes that if we had......

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