- Communism. Communism is a type of government where there are no social classes. Everyone is treated “equal” and there is no wage labor or private property. Communism is sometimes known as a “political mainstream”. Communism refers to a classless, stateless society, one where decisions on what to produce and what policies to pursue are made in the best interests of the collective society with the interests of every member of society given equal weight in the practical decision making.
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- When my blood flows calm as a purling river,
When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway,
It is then that I vow we must part for ever,
That I will forget you, and put you away
Out of my life, as a dream is banished
Out of the mind when the dreamer awakes;
That I know it will be when the spell has vanished,
Better for both of our sakes.
When the court of the mind is ruled by Reason,
I know it wiser for us to part;
But Love is a spy who is plotting treason,
In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.
They whisper to me that the King is cruel,
That his reign is wicked, his law a sin,
And every word they utter is fuel
To the flame that smoulders within.
And on nights like this, when my blood runs riot
With the fever of youth and its mad desires,
When my brain in vain bids my heart be quiet,
When my breast seems the centre of lava-fires,
Oh, then is when most I miss you,
And I swear by the stars and my soul and say
That I will have you, and hold you, and kiss you,
Though the whole world stands in the way.
And like Communists, as mad, as disloyal,
My fierce emotions roam out of their lair;
They hate King Reason for being royal –
They would fire his castle, and burn him there.
O Love! They would clasp you, and crush you and kill you,
In the insurrection of uncontrol.
Across the miles, does this wild war thrill you
That is raging in my soul?
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3. In the poem Communism by Ella Wheeler Wilcox it talks about how this lady, an American, does not like Communism. “And like Communists, as mad, as disloyal,…” This shows that the lady, Ella Wilcox, did not believe Communism was the answer. “When the court of the mind is ruled by Reason,…” This shows, accoriding to context, that she thought that Communism was wrong and that the right choice would not be Communism. “And on nights like this, when my blood runs riot
With the fever of youth and its mad desires,
When my brain in vain bids my heart be quiet,
When my breast seems the centre of lava-fires,…” This shows that in her heart she truly believed that Communism was a wrong choice and that it wasn’t what the people of the nation were supposed to do. More proof of this is that Wilcox writes (talking about communism “That his reign is wicked, his law a sin,
And every word they utter is fuel
To the flame that smoulders within.” She also believes that the Communist don’t know what they are doing and ignore the voice of Reason. “They hate King Reason for being royal –…” I think that all in all that Ella Wheeler Wilcox really believed that Communism is a bad thing, morally, and ethically.
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