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Communism
Communism is a political philosophy that is defined by a classless society in which all goods and property are collectively owned. Some current communist countries include China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
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What is the differences between communism and conservatism?
Communism:
-everyone makes same amount of money
-government regulations are everywhere
-must abide by government rules
-no freedom
conservatism:
-Ability to pursue the "American Dream" (if u have heard that)
-Deregulate
-Decrease the size of government
-many freedoms
I REALLY TRIED TO MAKE THIS ANSWER AS UNBIASED AS I COULD... ITS HARD!!!
What did Nikolai Lenin have to do with the Russian Revolution?
Nikolai Lenin, also known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was a leader of the Russian Revolution, and founded the Bolsheviks. Lenin was also the first head of the USSR. Lenin lived for the good of the future, and believed that Communism was the only way to save the future generations from the present.
There were two Russian Revolutions in 1917. Nikolai Lenin, properly known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, had virtually nothing to do with the February Revolution of 1917. It occurred without his knowledge while he was living in exile in Switzerland.
He returned to Russia on April 3, 1917 and immediately began agitating against the new Provisional Government that had been set up when the Tsar abdicated. His Bolsheviks did everything they could to disrupt and undercut the Provisional Government as well as to organize resistance against it. Eventually he lead the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution.
What issue concerned Vladimir Lenin at the Tenth Party Congress of 1921?
It could be expected that the Bolshevik Party would run into problems with both wings of the Marxist factions involved with the October Revolution. Lenin could not afford to have his policies questioned or altered by the revolutionary movement. He was therefore concerned with two main obstacles. One was the former Provisional government leaders that Lenin had not already imprisoned or executed. The even more dangerous opposition came for avid Marxists in the Bolshevik Party or other left wing extremists. Lenin took the opportunity of the Tenth Party Congress of 1921 to declare any forms of democracy held by people within the revolutionary movement to be expelled from the Bolshevik Party. By 1921, anyone not considered to be a loyalist to Lenin was in trouble. All factionalism within the Soviet Union was ended.
In later years, after Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin would cite Lenin's policies as Stalin's basis to curb any dissent within the Communist Party. Generally speaking, Stalin's method of "curbing" was either prison or execution.
What are the differences between communism and republicanism?
A republic is different from democracy..... yes everyone can vote......but vote whom????
In a republic, the head of state is elected. France is a republic country.... China follows communism..... just find about China's form of government......
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A republic is normally a system of government containing a Legislature to pass laws, an Executive to govern and make policy and a Judiciary to enforce laws and balance out the others. Key to this is that both the Executive and Legislature are elected and they appoint the Judiciary in some way but once appointed they don't actually have to listen to anyone. The exact form varies depending on the country.
Example: India has a weakish President, Parliament with a powerful Prime Minister and Courts -where as US has very weak "Prime Ministers" in the form of the Majority Leader but powerful Presidents and more politically involved Judges.
Communism is an Ideology about sharing the wealth and power in a nation. Everyone working together for the common good. In the real world various states have been governed by Communist parties at some point. USSR and China being the most obvious. An Ideal Communist state would have increasingly powerful councils governing them.
So... My mates and I are part of a farming collective. We send representatives to a local farming council which sends people to a regional council with sends people to a national council - committees are formed to do things and votes taken on policies and so on - everybody gets a say and everybody works together. This pretty much never happens in reality.
Example: The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...) and China are/were both technically Republics - they have the basic structure outlined above. But since the Party represents everyone there is no need for any other parties right? This means they are one party states - you can vote for the Party or err the Party. The result is they become much more like dictatorships as power within the Party leads to national power and as the leaders become more powerful they listen less and less to the people especially those not in the party.
Hope this helps! :)
How did Karl Marx envision Communism in its final form?
He invisioned the state, actually, withering away.
Yes, Lenin was considered to be modest. Particularly with his claims about Russia. His main purpose was to improve the conditions for the working man.
What are the most common questions asked about commuism?
A person new to the ideas of Karl Marx, the father of communism, along with his industrial partner, Friedrich Engels, will have any number of questions about communism. Perhaps the first one would be why no dictatorship, saying they are on the road to communism, never seemed to arrive there. Another key question would be that why is all history based on class struggle when ideas concerning nationalism and religion have also shaped world history. And, for Marx, a certain set of social and economic circumstances were necessary for the first stage of communism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, yet the major "communist " revolutions in Russia and China, did not fit the recipe laid out by Marx.
What governments were Communist for about sixty years?
There were several. The USSR was communist for about 70 years. China and Cuba, both still recognized as communist, as well as North Korea, have been communist for 60 plus years.
The Philippines was not a communist target to an eventual takeover.
Greece.
When Greece was under German and Italian occupation in World War 2 the resistance movement was largely led by Communists. When the wartime occupation ended fighting betweent the Greek government and the Communist guerrillas erupted and in 1944-45 Britain supported the Greek government, and continued to do when civil war again broke out in Greece in 1946.
In 1947 the British government informed an astonished US administration that it simply didn't have the money or troops to carry on fighting in Greece. (At the same Britain was preparing to withdraw from its larger possessions in Asia. The US had little idea how badly depleted post war Britain was ...
How did Stalin defeat trosky after Lenin's death?
In 1940, a Spanish-born Soviet agent, Ramon Mercader, murdered Trotsky at his home in Mexico City.
He plunged an ice pick into his head, Trotsky screamed the most terrible scream and died a day later. Ramon Mercader got a beating from Trotskys staff but Trotsky sparred him as he said he now had a story to tell. :0
Di the trumam doctrine committed the US to fighting communism anywhere?
it said that the us would aid any one who was in need of help, to help stop the spread of communism. it was something that the us felt obligated to do
1. The Peace Core Kennedy's most enduring legacies
2. Refused to reaffirmed to commit to Berlin Wall
3. Ordered a naval Blockade to stop the Soviets from delivering more missiles and he demanded that they dismantle existing missiles.
What are the common goals and failures of socialism and communism?
Socialism and communism are alike in that both are systems of production for use based on public ownership of the means of production and centralized planning. Socialism grows directly out of capitalism; it is the first form of the new society. Communism is a further development or "higher stage" of socialism
How did senator McCarthy spread the fear of communism in the US?
McCarthy claimed he had a list of "known communists" working in the State Department. The number of names on the list changed from speech to speech. He opened a Senate hearing on the matter and accused anyone who disagreed with him of being a communist or a communist sympathizer. He brought in witnesses to name names of communists whom they knew, but many of the names were so-called "suspected communists" and there was no proof that any of the names were of actual communist spies. People often denounced their neighbors and co-workers so that they themselves would not be accused of being communists. Some people denounced political or business rivals, without proof, to give themselves an advantage over their antagonists. Finally, McCarthy was brought down by a one-two punch of Edward R. Murrow showing a TV documentary in which nothing but McCarthy's own words were used to indict him, and Attorney Joe Walsh challenged McCarthy in his own Senate committee by asking him, "For the love of God, Senator, have you no shame?"
North Korea is a communist country true or false?
True
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Communist is a broad term to describe several approaches to the socialist ideas of Marx and Lenin. North Korea describes its political system a s Juche a separate approach to rule from Marxist-Leninist thinking. Many would describe the government as Stalinist or Maoist. Others feel the government is a reflection of the personality of Kim Jong Il.
How was communism founded by Karl Marx?
I argue that the ideas of German philosopher, economist and sociologist, Karl Marx and his long-time writing and academic partner, Friedrich Engels, envision the immanent and indispensable success of Marxism to revolve around the core belief of alienation. Marx's notion of communism is founded upon the distinction of the alienated environment of labor built on capitalism and a communist culture in which people liberally developed their nature in cooperative production. (Kreis) Marx joined a communist association; in 1847, his "Communist League" met in London. This is where Marx and Engels become appointed to develop documents that are known as Communist Manifesto. The root of these documents became the methodical viewpoint of what is known as Marxism.
Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were to two leaders credited with the development of communism. There is even a branch of political philosophy known as Marxism-Leninism, which emphasizes Lenin's thought of imperialism but is fundamentally an extended form of Marxism. Marx's held the idea that political change could stem from one revolution of violence (Price). His first political ideas were expressed in Communist Manifesto. According to one source, "Marx's idea of dictatorship of the working class became the dictatorship of the Communist Party, which only claimed to represent the working class.
Marxism is a social/economic philosophy, developed by Marx and assisted by Engels, based on the interpretation of history, Marx's view of capitalism, social revolutions and his view of human liberation. The foundation states that each person should be permitted to benefit from the fruits of their labor but is restricted from the capitalist economy. This capitalist society divides the general public into two classes: the nonworking workers and the nonworking owners. This situation is what Marx refers to as alienation. Alienation is founded on commodity fetishism, which is the belief that inanimate things, or commodities, have human powers able to oversee the pursuit of people (Blunden).
It is easy to see why Marx and Engels would refer to this revolution being centered on alienation. He said that man was thrown in to industrial labor and shaved of all his human rights. There were four main types of alienation that they discussed. Their capitalist/industrial society began to rely less on the labor of the worker and more on the labor of the machinery. The laborer received lower wages, fewer job opportunities and less intimate connections with their work and production. Employees were being paid for their time spent at work rather than being rewarded for their finished product. It was rare for the laborer to see the refined product that their unmerciful work had bore upon them. Not only were they unable to witness and hold pride for the fruits of their labor, the final product did not belong to them to be able to gain profit, it belonged to the industry to gain profit. Workers were alienated from their own working potential of their physical bodies by working in industries; they were forced to labor in unsatisfactory and harsh conditions that required little skill. Last, alienation was reflected in their social relationships with others at work as well as at home because of the exhaustion, fatigue, injury and work hours that were required of the workers (Marx: Estranged Labour). Communism is, he explains, "the positive transcendence of private property, or human self-estrangement, and therefore the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man... the complete return of man to himself as a social being..." (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844)
Marx's and Engels view the result of the industrial society and alienation that was brought on by capitalism and describes their theory in Communist Manifesto. It explores the details of the working class the inevitable transformation it undergoes during the Industrial Revolution. It describes the widespread influence of capitalism, which he regards as being unstable, and the communists, which take advantage of this era to promote their parties, association and political foundations. According to their document: At this time, there were two main conflicting classes: the Bourgeois and the Proletariat. The contemporary bourgeois society is fixed in the remnants of the feudal society. As the new scene of industry replaced manufacturers, the modern and powerful bourgeois replaced the middle class workers. But as this class emerged, so did the Proletariat though they could only live as long as they could attain labor and as long as their labor increased their capital.
The communist's theory includes the obliteration of private property. However, Marx points out, laborers do not attain any assets through their labor. The "property" or wealth they manufacture serves to take advantage of them.
It is difficult to distinguish why Marx focused so heavily upon labor being a fundamental role in his speculation of alienation if you do not recognize his concepts about human nature. First of all, Marx wasn't fond of the idea that everyone has a predetermined character that is autonomous of the world they live in. Marx said that human nature was an expression of labor. He was not opposed to the idea of human nature but felt that nature was something that had to be labored upon. Marx frequently reinforced the idea that contrary to animals, we have a history and can build upon our success, which can benefit the laborer. A worker who uses skill, intellect and creativity takes advantage of making nature the work of his own, but those who are lazy, destructive, and all-around negative, deny their potential as well as labor. When we improve our ability work we improve our chances of success which gives rise to class society. When one class is able to emerge, alienation is also able to surface (Cox).
Marx believes a solution to alienation is to eliminate the causes of alienation rather than reforming and organizing the society around it. These steps would include: the abolition of private property and the relationship between private property and the wage labor. Removing these dynamics also removes the other inequality factors that cause alienation thus obligating people to emancipate themselves. A communist society would then emerge to replace this dependant society that must liberate themselves.
Did Lenin support Joseph Stalin as his successor?
No, Lenin actually opposed Stalin as his successor even to the extent of writing several notes (later to become known as Lenin's Testament" to the Central Committee of the Communist Party advising that a way be found to replace Stalin with someone who had "...greater tolerance, greater loyalty, greater courtesy, and consideration to comrades, less capriciousness, etc."
Lenin's personal choice was Leon Trotsky.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels predicted that one day countries would overthrow all governments and share equally. This was the building block for Russian rebels opposed to the Czar.
"Communism" goes back to primitive times when people lived in small groups or tribes. No one one owned any particular part of the land the tribe occupied. It was owned by the tribe and everyone worked the land and the produce was divided among the members of the tribe. Marx called this type of communism "primitive communism" and stated that it occurs at the "dawn of history of all civilized races."
