“Communist Prison Camp”- Discussion Questions 1-5 Question 1 Answer The techniques that were used to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners began placing the prisoner in to a cell with four of more inmates. Where his cellmates would harangue the prisoner. Physical and mental abuse in the form of beatings and humiliation‚ this would happen 24 hours a day for weeks or months a time. If a prisoner displayed particular resistance to the transformation‚ physical restraint
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Origins and nature of the authoritarian and single-party states * Conditions that produced authoritarian and single-party states * Mao Zedong came to power and created the People’s Republic of China after decades of civil and international war. * The Communist party assumed power and utilized propaganda strategies to alter people’s opinions and outlooks. * Emergence of leaders: aims‚ ideology‚ support * Communist ideology helped him convince his country that the PRC was superior
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upon the 19th century‚ Actor Mark Rydell wrote‚ “There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry” (Rydell). This statement echoes the words of Karl Marx‚ who wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848 in response to industrialization and the subsequent decrease in living standards for the working classes of England‚ Germany‚ and France. According to Marx‚ although the bourgeois class was not the first oppressive class‚ in the
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What did Communist philosophy look like in the 1930’s in the United States (US)? Communism was looked down upon by Americans. In Hollywood‚ a group of “Anti-Communists” created an association against the philosophy called the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The committee was designed to investigate those who were believed to be communists‚ normally film stars‚ according to their unfaithfulness towards answering certain questions during an inspection. Who was in charge of the
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In the assertion‚ The Communist Manifesto‚ written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels‚ two German philosophers & revolutionists‚ discuss laid the intellectual foundation of the rise of communism and the broad political pushback against laissez faire capitalism in the 20th century‚ by expressing the aims of the nascent communist party. The two‚ Marx & Engels‚ argue the capitalist system as not only oppressive‚ but “nakedly dehumanizing.” In his study‚ Marx begins his argument describing a class’
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A Theory of the Origin of the State “Traditional theories of state origins are considered and rejected in favor of a new ecological hypothesis.” Robert L. Carneiro For the first 2 million years of his existence‚ man lived in bands or vil-lages which‚ as far as we can tell‚ were completely autonomous. Not until perhaps 5000 B.C. did villages begin to aggregate into larger political units. But‚ once this process of aggregation began‚ it continued at a progressively faster pace and led‚ around 4000
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ultimately have to take in the coming decades. The fact that makes China as such a controversial subject in the world is because of its combination of its incomparable history‚ though it initially followed the footsteps of the USSR‚ when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) overthrew the Kuomintang (KMT or nationalist) regime under Sun Yat-Sen in 1949 and on the other hand‚ its ceaseless growth in its economy since the last three decades. This anomalous coupling has placed the citizens as well as the rest
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The State in the Modern Day Context The state can be seen as a concept which has emerged over thousands of years in order to sustain the needs of societies growing in size and complexity. This growth in size and complexity was coupled with the growing need for authority and order‚ due to special mechanisms being needed for society to benefit from its increased social power and productive capacity (Petho‚ 2010:6). State formation passes through stages of development and hinges upon ecological‚
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In The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair uses a true to life story to demonstrate the working man’s life during industrialization. Marx depicts in the Communist Manifesto an explanation of why the proletariat is worked so hard for the benefit of the bourgeois‚ and how they will inevitably rise up from it and move to a life of communism. When The Jungle and the Communist Manifesto were written‚ the proletariat‚ or working class‚ was a commodity of commerce. Like their brothers‚ they subjected to competition and
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Second Week’s Topic: A. Introduction 1. Clarification of David Held’s position and argument the analysis of the modern state Focus: the “construction”/ “the making of” the modern state. What does “construction”/ “the making of” mean in this context? Modern state as an “European” invention “Decisive role” of the modern state in the development of modernity 2. State societies versus stateless societies Informal mechanisms of government / institutionalization of government No clear
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