1. What is Communism?
A Simple Lesson

2. Sickle for the Peasants – the farm labourers
What is Communism?
Hammer for the
Workers
This is the symbol of Communism – The Hammer and the Sickle
Sickle for the Peasants – the farm labourers

3. These guys wrote the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx is known as the father of Communism
Fredrick Engels co-wrote it

4. Marx and Engels studied the history of the world’s economies.
This means the way that power, industry and finance are controlled.
They saw the way countries developed in stages.
Communism
Socialism
Capitalism
Feudalism
Primitive
Communism

5. What is Communism? Primitive Communism
People lived together in small tribes
Primitive hunters and gathers
Everything was shared amongst the tribe

6. Under feudalism, a king or emperor or chief rulers over everyone.
2. He gives land and privileges to ‘nobles’ who rule the people for him.
3. The people are kept uneducated and told that god chose the king. The church helps the king this way.
Feudalism
4. As trade develops, some people get richer. This leads to Capitalism…..
Primitive
Communism

7. 2. Capitalists get more power to serve their own interests.
1. The business owners capitalists get richer while the workers do all the hard work.
Capitalism
Feudalism
3. Capitalism creates a huge working-class of people
People get angry at the way they are treated. Organize unions and demand changes.
will lead to a revolution and Socialism…

8. In a Socialist Revolution all rulers (king, etc) are ousted
Because nothing is made for profit, all people benefit from education and health.
The workers take control of the country to produce things for everyone.
Socialism
3. These ideas spread across the world to create Communism….
Capitalism
In a Socialist Revolution all rulers (king, etc) are ousted

9. 3. ALL human activity goes towards benefiting each other
1. The remaining capitalists put up a fight, but the will of the people wins.
Communism
Socialism
2. As everyone now works together. Everything is provided by the people – money is a thing of the past.
3. ALL human activity goes towards benefiting each other