Throughout history many leaders have adopted the ideas of communism as a way to run their nation. However as history has shown‚ communism has proven to be ineffective due to the number of nations that have fallen apart under a communist leader. Even though communism sounds great on paper why does it not work in real life? Communism is a social‚ political‚ and economic idea that establishes a classless society and eliminates privately owned property. In a communist society everything is owned by everyone
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Communism was introduced by a german philosopher named Karl Marx. He criticize the ideas of Utopians. Their philosophy was that society can exist where no one is greater than the other and the fight between social class would cease and eventually disappear. Marx didn´t believe in their view‚ even though in my opinion it are similar. His view of social class difference is that class struggle is inevitable‚ because of that it would lead to a society of no barriers of classes and production is owed
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Karl Marx has made numerous and vast contributions to sociology. He is largely responsible for the Communist Party which post World War II managed to polarize the world. The stark contrast between Capitalism and Communism created tensions and the Cold War between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. The Cold War lasted for a near lifetime from 1947 – 1991 and was and ominous backdrop for anyone coming of age during those years. Marx worked with Friedrich Engles to write the Communist Manifesto which was the
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The Truman Doctrine‚ the Marshall Plan‚ NATO‚ support for Chiang Kai-shek in China‚ and the American response to the North Korean invasion were all based on the foreign policy of containment in hopes that the United States could create a way to eliminate the threat of anymore Soviet expansion. The Truman Doctrine was a way for the United States to give aid to those who who were trying to stop the damage that the Soviets were causing. The Truman Doctrine was the main contributing factor to why the
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Communism is better than Capitalism‚ so why don’t we start a revolution? Capitalist economies are not as beneficial to the laborer. No matter how hard you work you will still get paid less than the owner of the factory. So‚ even if you work very hard 7 days you get paid less than the owner of the factory. Why though? The owner doesn’t do nearly as much work as the employees of the factory. Why should he get paid more money than the craftsperson? But do not be worried comrade. There are others that
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way of explaining Marx’s new form of Socialism/Communism. This document didn’t come into large interest until Communism started to reach its highest popularity point. In it‚ Marx explains the science and history behind his findings. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”(Karl Marx‚ The Communist Manifesto). This class struggle seen time and time again throughout history was one of the main ideas Communism was aimed at to eradicate. In ancient Egyptian
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Orwell effectively conveys the rise of communism in Russia throughout the book Animal Farm by the accurate elucidation of the context in the Soviet Union from 1917-1945. Orwell’s attitude and political view towards Russia is evident in his representation of the farm animals on Communist Party leaders: Napoleon and Snowball‚ for example‚ are figurations of Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky‚ respectively. He expresses the anthropomorphic characters of farm animals‚ and major events in Animal Farm such
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Trumbo had also successfully paved the way for an end to the red scare and an end to anti-communism in the United States. After the end of the Second World War in 1945 another war emerged‚ this war was the cold war. The cold war was a power struggle between Communism and Capitalism. Capitalist Americans were terrified of communists and the chance of being hurled into a nuclear war. The American fear of communism‚ “the red scare”‚ caused many citizens to become paranoid. This paranoia lead many Americans
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“If I had 26 letters of the alphabet I could rule the world.¹”Those are the words of one of the greatest philosophers. Karl Heinrich Mark‚ “The Founder‚ or the Father of Modern communism and Marxism” was born May 1818-July 1883. Karl was born into a wealthy family. (1) He was one of the most infamous philosophers and tacticians in the socioeconomic structure of our times. He was however infamous to many people because of his political
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Communism vs. Capitalism In the political tract the Communist Manifesto‚ Karl Marx describes communism as the party that "fights for the interests of the working class" while capitalists are considered "dependent and have no individuality -- only capital is dependent and has individuality". Both of Marx’s statements are true in nature but when the two economic systems are put in practice‚ they quickly disintegrate into the same end result today‚ that is to say that most communistic nations
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