What is war communism and why is it important?

According to communist writers and thinkers, the goal of communism is to create a stateless, classless society and to end capitalism.

According to the “general law of capitalist accumulation,” the longer the capitalist mode of production prevails, the more capital will have accumulated, leading to both higher profits for capital owners (the bourgeoisie) and to worsening living conditions for the people who live by their labor (the proletariat).

In the theory of Karl Marx, the term proletariat designated the class of wage workers who were engaged in industrial production and whose chief source of income was derived from the sale of their labour power.

Bourgeoisie in Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto. According to Marx there are two different types of social classes: the bourgeoisies and the proletarians. … The bourgeoisie are capitalists who own the means of production and the proletarians are the working classes who are employed by the bourgeoisies.

War communism was largely successful at its primary purpose of aiding the Red Army in halting the advance of the White Army and in reclaiming most of the territory of the former Russian Empire thereafter.

A communist party is a left-wing political party that seeks to realize the social and economic goals of communism. … As the ruling party, the communist party exercises power through the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The Communist Party of India is the oldest communist political party in India, and one of the six national parties in the country.