Origins Of Communism

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forgotten though, others followed in his footsteps. Another 19th century French reformer, Charles Fourier, shared many of Babeuf’s ideas, but where Babeuf favored immediate political change, Fourier was for longer-term social reform. The Comte de Saint-Simon, another political thinker of that time, was similar to Fourier in many respects, although he valued a mixed society of capitalist thinkers and socialist workers which he believed would triumph in future French communities.
Meanwhile in England, Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist, was developing his own brand of Socialism. Unlike many philosophers of his time, Owen based his ideas on experience rather than speculation. He managed a factory and realized that labor was the essential “factor of production”. He looked to the workers rather than government for solutions to economic problems. He proposed “cooperative societies”, or self-contained communities of producers and consumers which he hoped would prove his theories. But his ...

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rejection of religion which in itself is centered on faith.
But to fully understand the evolution of modern-day Communism, we must first understand it’s beginnings as a communal system. It wasn’t until about the 6th century B.C. that the Buddhist monks who made up the “Sangha” tried to abolish the “caste” system. During this time in Greece, Pythagoras and his disciples believed that friendship was the basis for a good society, and to them is attributed the phrase, “friends should have all things in common.” But for obvious reasons, this system could never work on a larger scale.
The idea gained momentum in late 5th century Greece when Plato recorded his predecessor’s dialogue in The ...

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