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They  tried  to  eliminate  money  as  a  means  for
            exchange.  The  four  years  of  the  so-called  military

            communism, without the use of money, created chaos in

            the economy, so money had to be reinstated.

                   The  leveling  of  salaries  was  yet  another  key
            problem  as  it  demotivated  the  good  workers.  Efficient

            workers were equally paid as the incapable or less capable

            ones and were even more successful if they were political
            poltroons.  Marx’s  theory  and  thought  slowly  but  surely

            failed in practice. The people who lived in this communist

            system  started  having  doubts  about  it.  And  so,  the
            collapse of the Berlin Wall was followed by the collapse of

            communism.  Some  communist  countries  tried  to  make  a

            new model as a transitional period in order to reach the

            ideal  communism.  One  of  those  communist  philosophers
            was Edvard Kardelj from Yugoslavia. Through analysis of

            the communist system he came to the idea of creating a

            new kind of ownership. He introduced collective workers’

            ownership: Factories belong to the workers.
                   State owned companies were given to the workers

            who worked there.



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