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Why Are Communists Obsessed with Production
For people familiar with political ideology, it will not have escaped your notice that communists and socialists, more broadly, are obsessed with production and labour.
The reasons for this are embedded in two factors.
The first is that communism and socialism were developed in the 19th century by Karl Marx, the founding father of communist thinking, who wrote his writings in industrial Britain at the height of its power in the 19th century.
The Communist Manifesto, the Manifesto of the Communist Party, was published in London on 21 February 1848.
It is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League, and originally published in London.
The second reason is that from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II in 1945, the nation-states of Europe were in hyper-competition.
The international political system was in flux due to the decline of British power from the 1860s until it was totally eclipsed by American power and the power of the Soviet Union/Russia at the end of World War II.
The communist leader Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of Soviet Russia after winning the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922, linked the power of production, goods and…
