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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
Karl Marx originally envisaged a rich industrialized country for his doctrine and not a peasant based society like imperialist Russia. He probably had Great Britain or Germany in mind when he wrote his Communist Manifesto in the 19th century. If he were around today he`d probably be looking at the USA as the perfect model for a communist society.....its an interesting concept.
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When East Germany was turned communist in the 1940s it was far more industrialized than the UK or Germany was in the 1840s. I guess though you could argue that in the East German case the communism was forced upon the country by an external power rather than rising up within itself.
Anyway, my feelings towards communism is that any single concentration of power, such as that of the communist parties in all communist revolutions to date, will almost inevitably lead to corruption. The only exception to this rule is probably the Paris Commune of 1871, but since it lasted for just a short time, it's hard to analyse its potential for success. But that specific case was closer to the anarchism of Mikhail Bakunin than the communism of Karl Marx, so maybe it's not relevant to compare to the other revolutions.