A little thing called communism

A seemingly common trend I have noticed is an extreme misunderstanding in regards to communism. There are even people who believe that the world has seen communism in action. Now this is quite a false belief as there has never been a single communist nation. Communism is after all a classless, stateless society. Although sadly much to my frustration this very clear definition seems to have been hijacked by misinterpretations. The more commonly known meaning for communism, which falsely confuses it with Socialist States. The confusion which is easy enough to do, comes in equal part from propaganda and confusion in regards to communism. I will hopefully cover the propaganda more at a later date, as it is 5:02am here now and I do not feel I can do it justice.

The confusion about communism, comes commonly from people who do not understand the process to communism. I stress here that I am neither proposing that this process is possible nor am I claiming it is desirable. Simplifying it a lot, it was believed by certain people that under a capitalist system the elite upper class or Bourgeois (those who controlled means of production) were heavily exploiting the working class. Eventually the working class would realize the exploitation which was going on. They would then unite and start a revolution where they overthrew the capitalists. After this the Socialist State comes in, at this point they would work to eliminate private ownership. It was their role to eliminate class and as time went on and they were no longer needed they were expected to gradually fade away. Once they had completely gone we would be left with a classless stateless society aka communism.