Following the first step towards communism is the revolution that Marx predicted would eventually occur. However, through a revolution, especially a violent one that Marx believed would sometimes be necessary, people will gain power and as the infamous saying goes, "power corrupts." In order for a revolution to occur there must be a leader who will eventually take a greater power and use it to his advantage, which would destroy Marx's idea of equality from the beginning. Lenin and his Bolsheviks practiced this type of leadership. They said they wanted equality and the wonderful society predicted by Marx, but as it became clear that they were about to win the revolution, they realized that there were changes in the way that their type of Communism would work. Unfortunately, the remainder of the quote is, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely" and their changes of the Russian Communist system, became more and more major.

Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin continued with this abuse of power. He illustrates an amazing example of the way in which a totalitarian government that is supposedly communist is not even remotely close to what Marx had in mind. Stalin exercised the ultimate in absolute power, with complete, and deliberate, disregard for even the lives of his own people. Millions of peasants died during Stalin's time in office. Political rivals within the Communist Party also died, following trials with these men confessing their guilt, but whose only crime was to disagree with Stalin (Ellis, 36). In this supposedly Communist nation, which was already corrupt, Stalin did whatever he could to stay in power and punished whoever challenged this power. Russia was still called a communist state. It is clear that there is no way in which the idea of no need for government can be accomplished in a communist state. Instead of government gradually intervening less and less, in real communist states,

the opposite happens. The power available is not something that is easy to give up. Today, The Communist Manifesto can only be looked at as a great piece of literature with philosophical value. Communism, in practice, is something that has been tested and has failed. The flaws of

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