In shifting winds of change, will communism ever come back?

A colonial house    Photo:Courtesy

As usual at the start of a new year, it is the season of change. But sometimes, the change we hope for, the ideals we crave, never come to be. We instead get very different outcomes. Let us go back a bit into history.

A hundred years ago, Russia went through a revolution that brought to an end its monarchy, which had lasted for about 10 centuries. The revolution was the culmination of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels dream, that one day communism would replace capitalism. In their near utopian dream, workers would own the means of production, then owned mostly by the upper class from nobles to monarchy.