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The Communist Threat Communism‚ like all forms of government was designed to benefit the people of the country. Originally communism was established to create economic stability by abolishing private property‚ if your property was sought to be public‚ it would be used as a greater benefit to the economy. There were people that believed in the idea of communism—those who thought that the key to a successful economy was by total government control. Time passed and political power became the greater
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Industrial Revolution Open Response Capitalism built the Industrial Revolution and helped mankind advance‚ the effects of the Industrial Revolution politically created new forms of governments such as socialism and communism. Capitalism was reflected by the Industrial Revolution because the economy was a capitalist economy. This meant that private business’s produced products that were cheap and useful. The business men also known as entrepreneurs at the time invested into business ventures to
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believed in communism and a one- party rule. They operated under a command economy‚ where the country’s wealth was owned collectively. The democrats believed that communism was a form of slavery to the government‚ while the communists believed that people in democratic countries were slaves to the rich. When the two countries with clashing ideologies became superpowers‚ conflict was inevitable as they tried to spread their ideologies to the rest of the world. The clash of USSR’s belief in communism versus
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influence. The Cold war started after World War II when the Soviet Union disliked the idea of a democracy and the U.S. disliked the idea of communism. Communists believed that everything was owned by the government and the U.S. had the economic theory of capitalism which let things be privately owned by the business not the state. Russian leaders believed that communism must spread throughout the world but the U.S. didn’t‚ this caused a great tension between this two. The effects of the Cold war showed
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The Role of Private Property According to Karl Marx and John Locke “Property‚ any object or right that can be owned. Ownership involves‚ first and foremost‚ possession; in simple societies to possess something is to own it” ( Funk & Wagnall ’s.1994). English philosopher‚ John Locke (1632-1704) believed that the only reason society degenerates to armed conflict and strife is because of a depletion of the essential ingredients of an individual or a community’s self-preservation
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different from the ancestral form. This means that there wouldn’t be any changes in government structure. This theory goes along with that of John Marx‚ which states that the end of history is when there is a final government structure in the form of communism. Where everyone is equal and are of the same social class. Which also‚ I think is wrong because there is no way to get everyone to be equal. Also there is no such thing as a perfect form of government as it always is changing and sometimes cannot
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for more than two centuries‚ a lack of industrialization‚ and the advent of World War I‚ Russia’s time had come to evolve as a country. Over the course of two decades‚ Russia went from agricultural to industrial‚ and the new idea of communism was implemented. Communism is an economic system in which all business is government-owned and distributed evenly among citizens‚ and is vital to the understanding of Russia’s growth. The issue arises with respect to how‚ what‚ and why did Russia evolve and “progress”
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between the Soviet Union and the United States of America‚ and it lasted from 1947 to 1991 (44 years). From the USA point of view‚ communism was an idea that wasn’t right. The country believed that the world would be a much better place if communism was replaced by democracy. However‚ the countries that supported communism‚ such as the USSR‚ believed that communism was the way to solve many problems and create a classless society. While the war was overall a “cold” war (meaning that there wasn’t
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Mrs. P 1st Block 8 March 2011 Perfect Communism The likes and differences of Carl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto and John Lennon’s song “Imagine” are exceedingly significant. In a world with threatening circumstances from other countries with different philosophies‚ John Lennon dreams of world peace. Research was done to elucidate Carl Marx’s theory‚ analyze John Lennon’s song “Imagine” and show the contrast between the two beliefs. In Carl Marx’s book The Communist Manifesto‚ he writes
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