The Communist Manifesto: Dennis J. Quinn

The solution to a long history of oppression and class struggle is the aim of this writing. Many countries in the past have tried this single-ruled party and failed. There are currently 5 countries under the rule of communism, Laos, China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam. The thing that I don’t understand is, someone or some group has to be in power of the people of a given region, state or country. That group has to make sure things are split “equally.” If properties are no longer divvied for the individual, then what stops indecent acts of territory invasions or thefts ect.? This is one of the very big problems found within Communism. In order for things to be divvied up someone has to know the hard facts about where, for instance, product A is coming from, how many people need product A and how long it will sustain. From here, this is where the “authorities,” become greedy and power hungry. They begin to pocket more for themselves; which in turn takes away from the population. Again, the small lucky few become like dictators and rule the lands.
From this reading and the last reading, Marx seems to be very informed about the governmental policies and system of his time and of the past. He is able to see the system as it is and find the glitches that really need to be changed in order for equality to exist (or at least to lessen the oppressed peoples). The main issue that keeps popping up is the issue within the human condition, which exists in a wide spectrum of qualities and flaws. Altogether, any Utopian idea created for a society is going to be de-bunked because it is not in our nature to be “perfect,” or “flawless.”

I would like to transcribe perfection and flaws into art. In my opinion, the great part about art is that art can have perfection in flaws. In general, these flaws do not bring direct harm people. Perfection cannot be found in a flawed system because that system would not function properly, if at all. But within art, there may be no reason for function.
And now I am losing my train of thought.