Saying Lenin created a communist state is, in itself, oxymoronic, as communism in its purest form is defined by statelessness. The question is, however, whether he did succeed in creating a proletariat state, and the extent of his role in this creation. There is no argument that his version of communism differed from existing forms…
Karl Marx was a German economist philosopher and sociologist best known for his theory on capitalism and communism. Marxism is a conflict perspective that challenged functionalism which was developed by Emile Durkheim and became quite instrumental in the 1940s. Marx proposed a system in his book, ‘the communist manifesto’ which gained a lot of support…
The allegorical fable, Animal Farm, aggressively satirises communist rule under Joseph Stalin. Using a range of (satirical and literary devices, features and forms) it completely annihilates the viability of communism through scathingly exposing its follies. Progression of the novel Animal Farm sees audiences engage in critical self-judgement of the inevitable conversion of communist government into…
The initial difficulties faced by the new Soviet Union were so severe that its survival seemed almost miraculous”. The remains of the czarist regime left Lenin to face a country wrought with war, devastated economically. Russia’s involvement in World War I, followed by its Civil War, wide spread famine, and a change in political and…
Unless we accept the claim that Lenin’s coup d’état gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today’s Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians — the only empire that survived into the mid 1980’s’ (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist…
Mr. Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with the last cry on the battlefield. World War I certainly did not. After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many other things,…
To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich‚. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered China’s traditional relationship with the world. Hence the Chinese Communist attitude toward China’s traditional…
The Russian Revolution killed 10 million people (Stalin later over 20 years killed 20 million more) Vladimir Lenin brought the idea of Communism to Russia. Originally Communism was designed to be a revolution of the industrial working class (factory workers) overthrowing their political and financial superiors. A utopia would be created where people share the…
Austrian School (also Vienna School): A school of economics that emphasizes free markets, individual property rights, and freedom of association. It also calls for the abolition of central banks and a return to the gold standard. The school is based on principles postulated by the Austrian economist Carl Menger in the late 19th century. Boom…
1. The Jews wanted to denationalize and de-stabilize Germany by: Sowing confusion Lowering the racial level of the highest Dominate the races by exterminating the intelligentsia (intelligent people) Replace them (the intelligentsia) with members of the Jewish race Race mixing, e.g. the Jews brought Blacks in the Rhineland – this led to the cohabitation of…
Introduction, Purposes and Approaches Social and political philosophers are concerned with defining and interpreting concepts like justice, freedom, authority and democracy in a modern context as well as in the past. These two branches of philosophy overlap so much they are usually treated as one area of philosophy. If there is an actual difference it…