Karl Marx's idea of a communist state, which is supposed to be an almost utopian society, is impossible to achieve due to the fact that it requires the human mind to be almost flawless. It asks society and its members to be absolutely without ranks, greed or leadership. This has been clearly impossible for society. Each step to achieving a communist society has always been a step towards becoming a totalitarian society like past and current communist countries. Communism became popular in under-developed countries, which is opposite to what Marx believed, and its rise in these countries was the beginning of its fall. Marx believed that the only way to overthrow capitalism was to create a revolution of the lower class but this revolution carries the cause even farther away from true communism. Equality is the next issue that Marx tackled, and in the communist ideal, it is very important but, unfortunately, in the real world of distorted ideologies, it isn't as important. The ultimate goal for communism, however, is that eventually there will be no need for government but as communist societies in the real world progress, nothing could be further from the truth. Today, communism, active in the few Communist countries left in the world, is far from what Marx had in mind. From the beginning to the present day and into the future, communism has become distorted into something that would be Marx's worst nightmare. Because of faults in the human mind that just can't seem to be worked out, the Marx's plan simply cannot work.
Marx's prediction was that communism would be successful in the highly industrialized countries of Western Europe. Instead, it took place in Russia, a country troubled by its corrupt head of state. A Communist revolt needed an industrialized country as its focus, where an organized lower class, willing to fight, had had a chance to develop. The revolution of 1917, however, occurred in Russia, one of the most backward countries in Europe (Ellis, 31).
