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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 a non democratic country?
A non-democratic country is one that is well, not democratic. It can be a monarchy, a dictatorship, etc. Just not democratic. The following countries are the non-democratic countries in the world:
Monarchies:
Brunei
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Swaziland*
Vatican City*
Theocracies:
Iran
Vatican City*
Dictatorships:
Swaziland*
Uganda
Cameroon
Equatorial Guinea
Angola
Zimbabwe
Ethiopia
Eritrea
The Gambia
Burkina Faso
Chad
Sudan
Djibouti
Republic of the Congo
Central African Republic
Rwanda
Burundi
Mauritania
Cuba
Syria
Iran
North Korea
Belarus
Swaziland* = Swaziland's government system is an absolute monarchy, however, the state is recognized as a dictatorship as well.
Vatican City* = Vatican City's head of state is the Pope, so its recognized as an absolute monarchy. However, this is also a theocracy as a head of religion is in power.
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What forced the people of Jamestown into compulsory communism?
Do you mean they had no money and no means of coercion?
How does Eisenhower's plan for containing communism differ from Kennedy's?
by sending more troops and "green berets"
First, there is no evidence that "leftists" are the same as "communists." This is name-calling that often occurs in politics; sadly, some right-wing media sources and certain conservative politicians seem to believe that any criticism of big business makes one a communist. That is not true. Further, there is also no evidence that "leftists" want to destroy capitalism. On the other hand, many left-leaning Americans (some of whom are Democrats) and even a few moderate Republicans believe that capitalism is broken, that a small group of people are getting very, very rich thanks in large part to loopholes in current tax law. These people do not hate capitalism at all-- they simply want to see its excesses corrected.
To be clear, many people whose politics lean left are upset because they see too much income inequality in America today, and they believe the top 1% have benefited greatly, even during our difficult economic times, while everyone else is struggling. They believe the tax code is unfair and that currently, giant corporations get tax breaks they do not deserve-- for example, there is evidence that many corporations have laid off American workers and moved those jobs overseas to third-world countries; and some corporations have hidden assets in shell accounts in foreign countries so that they do not pay their fair share of taxes. Whether or not you think that corporations who do such things are within their rights, those people who criticize what they regard as corporate greed are certainly not communists.
Define operational definition as distinct from lexical definition?
Operational can be defined as the process of operationalization that is used to define a variable or an object in terms of a process that is needed to determine its quantity, duration, and existence. An operational definition can, when operationalized to a greater degree, besides the procedure needed to bring something into existence.
What discovery influenced the decision to embalm and preserve Lenin's body?
The mummified remains of the Boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen, which had been found in 1922, at least partly influenced the decision to embalm Lenin's body.
To many Russians, especially Bolshevik/Communists, Lenin was revered. The idea that his body could be preserved for hundreds of years appealed to many but not all of his followers, even though Lenin himself wanted to be buried in Petrograd beside his mother's grave. The idea of embalming was criticized by many, including Leon Trotsky, who said it was akin to creating relics.
Truman doctrine
What is the connection of direct democracy and communism?
Communism is a concept of creating a world where everyone is equal to each other without any sort of discrimination or division. On the other hand Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of government in which people collectively make decisions for themselves, rather than having their political affairs decided by representatives.
Thus, a pure democratic government will lead to the achievement of communism and vice-verse. The greedy actions of various representatives of communism has lead the present generation misinterpret those values .Some works of O.V. Vijayan an Indian author and cartoonist, who was an important figure in modern Malayalam literature clearly states that no leaders has been able to make a pure communist state,yet. At present the inefficient and overambitious acts of various individuals lead the people to disbelieve in democracy. Understanding the true nature of both communism and pure democracy call for the rise of new ideals which has the good part of both these values and this will lead to the ultimate victory of justice.
Containment.
While communists and members of the I.W.W. share a common interest; that interest being to overthrow capitalism and forming an international commonwealth, they differ in one distinct area. Communists believe in the temporary dictatorship of the proletariat (workers), however the I.W.W. believes that the commonwealth should be formed immediately after a global social revolution. The I.W.W. is NOT a communist organization.
Sources:
The I.W.W. website
I'm an I.W.W. member and a Communist
Solidarity Comrade! :)
What did the Bolshevik believe in?
'what's yours is mine'.
The Bolsheviks believed in a strong central hierarchy with full adherence to a central committee, a style of leadership called "democratic centralism." Lenin and others were ready to push their ideas in 1917, and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II provided them the opportunity. While the Mensheviks wanted to follow the protype Marxist plan of an intermittant liberal capitalism before socialism, Lenin did not think this was necessary. His slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land" was used to counter the current provisional government in hopes of bringing the peasant and working classes in support of the Bolsheviks. It worked and during this time, several other notable leaders joined: Iosif Stalin and Trotsky. The Kerensky provisional government reciprocated by ordering the arrest of top Bolshevik leaders. Lenin was forced to go into hiding and during this time, he wrote "State and Revolution" about his ideas of a socialist government. The repression was lifted only when General Kornilov attempted to attack Petrograd. The Bolsheviks enlisted 25,000 militia men to counter them and eventually a compromise was reached with Kornilov being taken into custody.
A dual power occurred for a while. The legislature and provisional governments were under Kerensky and the Mensheviks while the workers and soldiers were under the Bolsheviks. Lenin along with most Bolsheviks simply wanted an insurrection but Kerensky preempted them on October 22 by ordering the arrest of their Military Revolutionary Council, banning their newspaper and cutting their telephone wires. On October 24, the Bolshevik Red Guard was sent to occupy important locations in the city as well as the Winter Palace which housed the Provisional Government. Power was handed over on October 26 to the "Soviet Council of People's Commissars" with Lenin as chairman, Trotsky as commissar of the Red Army and minister of foreign affairs (odd that the head of the army is the minister of foreign affairs…talk about diplomacy…). It was later renamed as "All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)" in 1918.
Difference between communism and capitalism?
A conversation is communication between multiple people. It is a social skill that is not difficult for most individuals. Conversations are the ideal form of communication in some respects, since they allow people with different views on a topic to learn from each other. A speech, on the other hand, is an oral presentation by one person directed at a group. For a successful conversation, the partners must achieve a workable balance of contributions. A successful conversation includes mutually interesting connections between the speakers or things that the speakers know. For this to happen, those engaging in conversation must find a topic on which they both can relate to in some sense. Those engaging in conversation naturally tend to relate the other speaker's statements to themselves. They may insert aspects of their lives into their replies, to relate to the other person's opinions or points of conversation.
Communication is a process whereby information is enclosed in a package and is discreeted and imparted by sender to a receiver via a channel/medium. The receiver then decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback. Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are auditory means, such as speech, song, and tone of voice, and there are nonverbal means, such as body language, sign language, paralanguage, touch, eye contact, and writing. Communication is thus a process by which we assign and convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding. This process requires a vast repertoire of skills in intrapersonal and interpersonal processing, listening, observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, and evaluating. It is through communication that collaboration and cooperation occur.[2]....
What is an operational definition?
It is a statement that describes how to measure a certain variable or how to define a certain term. The operational definition is used extensively for abstract as well as physical concepts.
An "operational definition" is a process by which the characteristics of a concept can be defined, including identification and classification. It consists of the methods or tests that are used in analyzing a given variable or concept, which can be used to confirm the validity of the information obtained.
A simple example that shows the relationship between a conceptual definition and an operational definition : if the concept is "weight", an operational definition could be "the weight of an object as measured on a scale".
An operational definition is a demonstration of a process - such as a variable, term, or object - relative in terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity. Properties described in this manner must be sufficiently accessible that persons other than the definer can independently measure or test for them at will. An operational definition is generally designed to model a conceptual definition. The most basic operational definition is a process for identification of an object by distinguishing it from its background of empirical experience. The binary version produces either the result that the object exists, or that it doesn't, in the experiential field to which it is applied. The classifier version results in discrimination between what is part of the object and what is not part of it. This is also discussed in terms of semantics, pattern recognition, and operational techniques, such as regression. For example, the weight of an object may be operationally defined in terms of the specific steps of putting an object on a weighing scale. The weight is whatever results from following the measurement procedure, which can in principle be repeated by anyone. It is intentionally not defined in terms of some intrinsic or private essence. The operational definition of weight is just the result of what happens when the defined procedure is followed. In other words, what's being defined is how to measure weight for any arbitrary object, and only incidentally the weight of a given object. Operational definitions are also used to define system states in terms of a specific, publicly accessible process of preparation or validation testing, which is repeatable at will. For example, 100 degrees Celsius may be crudely defined by describing the process of heating water until it is observed to boil. An item like a brick, or even a photograph of a brick, may be defined in terms of how it can be made. Likewise, iron may be defined in terms of the results of testing or measuring it in particular ways. One simple, every day illustration of an operational definition is defining a cake in terms of how it is prepared and baked (i.e., its recipe is an operational definition). Similarly, the saying, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be some kind of duck, may be regarded as involving a sort of measurement process or set of tests (see Duck test).
An operational definition is a definition in which something is defined by that which comprises it. For example, a pie-eating competition is operationally defined as a competition in which one eats pies. (measured in the amount of pies eaten)
Lenin was exiled by the government to Shushenskoe, Siberia. He was released in 1900 and left Russia in self-imposed exile spending time in various countries including Switzerland, Belgium and England.
How did Whittaker Chambers affect the anti-communist movement?
Whittaker Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in his espionage trial.
Was Vladimir Lenin a free market philosopher?
No, Lenin was a socialist who believed that the government should control all markets. He was a dedicated anti-capitalist and against free markets because they are exactly what capitalism needs to work.
It was very surprising therefore when Lenin instituted his New Economic Policy" which reintroduced free markets in the agricultural section of the economy.
