The United States has faced many crisis at the hands of the communism. ... Many wonder how the ideology of communism came about. To understand how, one must get to the roots of communism, which is actually Marxism. ... As a historian, Marx identifies five basic historical developments of production: the primitive community, the slave state, the feudal state, capitalism, and socialism. ... The spread of communism has stopped graciously, but it must be stopped completely in my view, before more regimes spring up like North Korea....

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