Karl Marx and Communism.

The idea of communism in the words of it's inventor (Karl Marx) is that all workers should share a common wealth in a free nation, based on your needs and not your skills. In Karl Marx's opinion, the "good guys" were the workers and the "bad guys" was the government. He wanted everyone to share equal power because history has proven that the workers have always struggled from higher up classes, such as the government. Karl Marx felt that this was needed and if the government did not obey the idea of communism, the workers of the world should unite and overthrow their government to make a communist society.
Although many countries did overthrow their government to make a communist government, it was not how Karl Marx originally wanted it to be. Karl wanted a free nation, where all shared wealth and power and none had harsh conditions in factories or in farms, but the people overthrowing the government were making a dictatorship over the country. They punished those who did not follow communism and made many people work on farms or factories, this gave a new meaning to Karl Marx's idea of communism. Communism is now thought of as a dictatorship like government that is very strict and forces the people to do things the way they want. Communism today is different then the communism that was invented by Karl Marx and goes against everything he stood for.