Chapter 4: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science‚ Technology‚ and Socialist- Feminism in the Late 20th Century* DONNA HARAWAY History of Consciousness Program‚ University of California‚ at Santa Cruz 1. AN IRONIC DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR WOMEN IN THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism‚ socialism‚ and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful‚ than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed
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Was Ho Chi Minh more of a nationalist than a communist? Most people in America firmly believe that Ho Chi Minh was a communist first and foremost. The public was inundated with stories of his visits to Russia and China. We heard repeatedly how his support from communist countries was being used to take over and create a communist stronghold in South East Asia. What we didn’t hear was the rest of the story. The Vietminh under Minh’s leadership had an alliance of sorts with the U.S
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Animal Farm by George Orwell is a satirical story about the ineffectiveness of communist ideals. One of the major themes of this story is manipulation and control. The pigs on the farm were able to convince the other farm animals the life under the rule of Farmer Jones was oppressive and they needed to revolt. After the revolt the pigs‚ Snowball and Napoleon assume command because they can read and write. “The pigs revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and
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The Headmaster and his Assistants‚ Members of Stuff‚ Outgoing Prefects‚ Seniors‚ Fellow Student. I deem it very distinguished to stand before you at this instant to present my manifesto as an incoming school prefect for this grand institution of the Tescans. "Prefects are birds of passage" Seniors‚ kindly permit me to go on a memory lane. Last year in an occasion like this our outgoing prefects stood before us to read their manifestoes as the term of office was due to be handed over to them. As
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Evaluate the role of individuals in bringing about the changing influence of the Russian Communist Party‚ 1905-1945. – Jacob Marshall-Grint In the period 1905 to 1945 there was three key individuals that caused significant change in the influence of the Russian Communist Party: Lenin‚ Stalin and the Tsar. The influence of the party came in two main forms‚ political and public‚ which all three leaders changed in different ways. The most important individual in bringing about the change in
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repressed popular choices and the urge for self-expression. Judged against this backdrop‚ when McDonald’s opened shop in Pushkin Square‚ Moscow‚ on 31st. December 1989‚ it justifiably became an object of wonder. McDonald’s entry into the heartlands of communist China was no less wondrous. However the Chinese were more pragmatic in their approach and saw mutual benefit in McDonald’s entry. McDonald’s entry into China coincided with and contributed to a growing synergy between the Chinese cultural value system
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Lenin and Trotsky had both been able to contribute to the establishment and consolidation of a communist state in Russia 1917-24. In the beginning‚ before the Civil War‚ Lenin’s past seemed to be the one of spreading ideology to communism by his speeches‚ slogans and other forms of propaganda. On the other hand‚ Trotsky was more of a realist. He took care of the action the Bolsheviks had to take in order to be successful. He‚ assumingly‚ led the Bolshevik riots in the July days and defeated the Provisional
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How accurate is it to say that the Communist Government reforms brought widespread benefits to the Chinese People 1949-1956? Mao had no choice but to bring widespread benefits to the Chinese people in the years of 1949-56‚ this was because he was afraid of counter-revolution‚ and discoveries of large armaments in a GMD (Chinese Nationalist Party) base in the early years of his power shows he was right to be afraid. His initial aim was to get people on side and be conciliatory‚ which is important
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To what extent was the CCP able to develop as a significant political force in the years 1927 to 1945? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a revolutionary movement led by Professors Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao‚ who emerged from the May Fourth Movement‚ challenging the traditional Confucian Chinese ideas and were influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx. When the CCP was first founded‚ in 1921‚ it contained only 50 members. However‚ throughout the years 1927 to 1945 it went through horrific defeats by
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of Communism‚ is achieved by limiting foreign trade and foreign intervention. The only way to make a country profitable by itself is to train experts and industrialise the country. Stalin was one of the first Communist leaders‚ and followed Marx’s ideas quite closely. When the Communists took over in Russia in 1917‚ the country was very backward and inefficient. Stalin ordered collectivisation of everything from farm tools to cattle‚ and everything was shared amongst the people and brought under
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