A long time ago, before you were born, there was a lazy man named Karl Marx. He would barely ever do any work and would let his mother take care of him long after he was an adult. She kicked him out because she couldn't support both of them by herself, so he moved in with a friend.

He wrote a book about something he called "Communism." He thought that people who owned companies were evil people who stole from the people that worked at companies. He thought that the workers would group together and take the companies from those evil rich people, and that everyone would get everything they needed to live happily.

What actually happened was he inspired some very evil people to use his dream as a way to gain a lot of political power. They then used that power to murder millions of people and to try and control their people. Not many people were happy under what "Communism" actually became, except for the very few people with power.

These days, communists still exist! Scary huh? There are people that are very angry that communism hasn't succeeded. They don't understand that nobody is perfect enough to actually run communism in a way that it will succeed. There is an old saying: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Communism is absolute power. A corrupted person is a person who no longer has any empathy for his fellow people. A corrupted person would gladly kill people who don't obey him or her.