The seeds of the theory of communism and a communist state have been sown much earlier than Karl Marx’s voluminous critique on capitalism, Das Kapital, printed in the yr 1867. The history of communism can be traced back to the latter half of the nineteenth century. The first published work coping with the idea of a classless state and common possession of nationwide property was the Greek thinker Plato’s famous treatise on political governance and social organization The Republic. Therein, … Continue reading →