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=**Essential Question:**= Democracy or Communism: Which is the best?

**Research Questions:**
democracy communism difference Democracy definition Communism definition //**What countries have democratic government?**//
 * //What is the difference between democracy and communism?//**
 * //What is democracy?//**
 * //What is communism?//**

//**What countries have communist government?**// communist government countries //**What's good about democracy?**// Democracy Communism //**What effect do a democratic government had on their country?**// Democratic government effect country Communist government effect cause country democracy problem countries //**How do communism become a problem to some countries?**// communism problem countries
 * //What's good about communism?//**
 * //What effect do a communist government had on their country?//**
 * //How do democracy become a problem to some countries?//**

**Research Questions Answer**:
1. Democracy is a system of government by which political sovereignty is retained by the people and exercised directly by citizens. In modern times it has also been used to refer to a constitutional republic where the people have a voice through their elected representatives.

3.Currently, there are 123 countries that are democratic, and the trend is increasing[|[53]] (up from 40 in 1972) [//[|citation needed]//]. As such, it has been speculated that this trend may continue in the future to the point where liberal democratic nation-states become the universal standard form of human [|society]. This prediction forms the core of [|Francis Fukayama]'s "[|End of History]" controversial theory. These theories are criticized by those who fear an evolution of liberal democracies to [|Post-democracy], and other who points out the high number of [|illiberal democracies].  [|**//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy//**]

2.i Communism is the abolition of power of people over people. This means abolishing "oppression," whether the oppression be of nations by nations, classes by classes, women by men or any other division in society. Communism is based on mutual cooperation, peace and justice instead of oppression. //**__http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/whocomm.html__**//  __** 2.ii __Communism **is a [|socioeconomic] structure that promotes the establishment of an [|egalitarian], [|classless], [|stateless] [|society] based on [|common ownership] of the [|means of production] and property in general.[|[1]][|[2]][|[3]] It is usually considered to be a branch of [|socialism], a broad group of social and political [|ideologies], which draws on the various political and intellectual movements with origins in the work of theorists of the [|Industrial Revolution] and the [|French Revolution][|[4]], although socialist historians say they are older. [ **__//__**[|who?]**____**//] [ //[|citation needed]//] Communism attempts to offer an alternative to the [|problems] believed to be inherent with [|capitalist] economies and the legacy of [|imperialism] and [|nationalism]. Communism states that the only way to solve these problems would be for the working class, or [|proletariat], to replace the wealthy bourgeoisie, which is currently the ruling class, in order to establish a peaceful, free society, without classes, or government.[|[2]] The dominant forms of communism, such as [|Leninism], [|Stalinism], [|Maoism] and [|Trotskyism] are based on [|Marxism], but non-Marxist versions of communism (such as [|Christian communism] and [|anarchist communism]) also exist and are growing in importance since the [|fall of the Soviet Union].//** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism**//____

Most communist countries are semi presidential