Sparta and Communism: Government and Military, It could have been more. Societies have developed a pattern over the centuries of creating a government system of communism. Choosing this selection of government has allowed military machines to be born and reflect the civilization that created them. Nowhere in history is this more evident than in the Greek city-state of Sparta. The entire lifestyle that revolved around the state of communism had the goal of creating the …showed first 75 words of 1719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1719 total…won the war, or if the Spartans had found a way to take the best army in Greece on the extended campaign that would have been necessary to conquer Greece. Communism may work for a government in military terms, but in the long run, it does not work for anyone because of its limitations on freedoms. Historically speaking, these limitations unfortunately caused Sparta not to evolve and change, but as a communist state, to fail.