Louis Althusser published "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Towards an Investigation as an effort to understand anti-capitalistic uprising that was happing in his time. The issue Althusser is concentrating is how the working class fought off to transform the corrupt-abusive-ruling capitalist rule into a communist rule. To understand the problem he uses the method of Ideology, mixing and comparing one ideology to another. ... The other set, the ISA (family, church, schools and etc.), is defined as a role player in sustaining the capitalist structure. ... The ISA works by ...

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Socialisms commitment to equality is widely seen as its defining feature. Unlike other ideologies, socialists tend to promote equality of outcome rather than merely equality of opportunity. ... This is what socialists believe, and it is this belief in equality in every aspect that sets socialism apart from other ideologies and supports the theory that socialism is defined by its commitment to equality. ... Social democracy also leans towards equality of opportunity, rather than equality of outcome; something that communists would wholeheartedly endorse. ... In communist tradition capitalism ...

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Ideological struggle between Capitalism and Communism was a definitive fact that stimulated rivalry: the USSR wanted to shape the future and reconstruction of the East in relation to the communist ideology; while the USA wanted post-WWII world scenario to be shaped by capitalist ideas. ... Secretary of State), define the Cold War as a battle between the superpowers for supremacy in ways of thinking. ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR i...

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For these people as well as all the other European socialist and communist parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, eventually became one of the principal programmatic statements. ... The role of the "Manifesto" is shown as promoting the communist beliefs. ... The book goes on to link the proletarians with their ideology, communism. ... The core if the communists is defined by a single sentence, "the abolition of private property" (Mendal 26). ... Finally, the chapter ends with ten points, ten command...

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Communist Manifesto Proletarians-the working class intended to "haunt" Europe and seize control of it. ... The role of the "Manifesto" is shown as promoting the communist beliefs. ... The book goes on to link the proletarians with their ideology, communism. ... The core if the communists is defined by a single sentence, "the abolition of private property" (Mendal 26). ... Finally, the chapter ends with ten points, ten commandments of a communist (Mendal 32). ...

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However the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never clearly indicates that if it intends to loosen control for the potential reforms. ... Similarly, in the April 2 Incident in 1994, the protesting peasants were not really ideologically attacking the communist rule . ... Although as the minority of Chinese population, the intellectual group failed to win much concession from the current communist regime. ... Then CCP intentionally confounds the concepts of a culturally-defined nation and a politically-defined nation, to lead the people to believe that they actually have nationalistic sentime...

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The two powers did not initially come into conflict because one was communist and the other capitalist. ... Moore defines a democracy as a, "government by the whole population, usu. through elected representatives; nation so governed; classless and tolerant society."" He defines communism as a, "social system in which most property is publicly owned and each person works for the common benefit; political theory advocating this."" ... America was, and still is, a capitalist nation and wanted to enforce its ideologies on to Europe while the Soviet Union was a socialist nation and felt t...

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Party structures of Communist party state are defined by Design Features: Chinese political system borrowed organizational design from Soviet Union by Lenin political legitimacy. ... The description of Communist party leadership is set forth in the constitution. ... Communist Party Leadership: the Communist Party exercises direct leadership over government and legislative functions in a variety of ways. ... First, membership in the Communist Party is coming from the elite status. ... Rule by Law: the principle of "rule of law" is the protection of individual rights by limitation on a...

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MARXISM Abstract: ∆ This chapter takes another viewpoint to look at both the Soviet communist system and Marxism more generally. ∆ We assess the development of the Stalinist model considering its resent demise. ∆ By outlining the Marxist critique of liberalism, we distinguish the usefulness of Marxism as a critical approach from the merits of the Soviet system of governance. ◈ Revisiting the Soviet Communist Theory of the Press ∆ The Soviet Communist Theory of the Press is the most difficult to explain. ... The Soviet co...

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– a war of ideology, of freedom vs. slavery or oppression. ... An example of this would be from the British cabinet meeting on 31st August 1950 when the goals of the United Nations are clearly defined in line with American foreign policy – the threat of Communism to an 'immature' nation and need to establish a western styled government being the key example. ... Furthermore, this public portrayal of the Korean conflict being a contest of morality and ideology conveyed the conflict to be a threat to global security. ... Arguably this played into the ideologically driven, ...

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As well as his ideologies of false consciousness, his belief of capitalisms need for reform, inequality and exploitation of the working classes could be addressed and abolished, that society is not defined by that of natural rights, but defined by the nature of our class status. ... Alienation only makes the bourgeois become more powerful and through their ideology of false-consciousness they keep the workers from revolting by leading them to believe that the bourgeois in fact are good and only want the best for the workers. ... This, as well as other ideals, is detailed in The Co...

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It can be said that how these communist regimes have governed is quite contrary to what Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin would have envisioned in their utopian communist societies. ... In order to more clearly understand this issue it is necessary to take a more detailed look at how communism has thus far been badly implemented, what are the good aspects of communist theory and ideology and whether it is possible for a pure communist society to ever completely prosper in the current world situation. ... Out of the current communist states none of them have gone through the transition period to ...

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It was said that a nuclear showdown with the former communist Soviet Union was inevitable. ... Another crisis is currently present, the nuclear showdown with another communist nation, North Korea. ... Marxism helps create and define a branch of philosophy called dialectical materialism. ... Literature does not reflect either the economic base or other ideology, but it works on existing ideologies and transforms them, giving these ideologies new shape and structure (Martin 77). ... Moreover, man wants more and more power, and thats why Marxists, or Communists regimes always become authorita...

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Citizens were watched, spied on and were basically at the mercy of the high-ranking communist officials. ... First, Stalinism can be defined as "Communist Party rule, Marxist- Taylor 2 Leninist ideology, rampant bureaucracy, leader cults, state control over production and distribution police surveillance, terror- (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 3). ... The Communist party, among other things, demanded loyalty. ... Personally, I think Fitzpatrick did an excellent job of portraying the realities of the communist society and the hardships for Russians in the 1930s. ... The famine, the short...

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The Soviet was trying to spread its Communist idea while the Americans tried to prevent Communist from spreading. ... A group of mostly wealthy and democratic societies that led by the United States was engaged in a pervasive ideological, political, economic, and at times, military competition with a group that were the poorer communist societies associated with the led by the Soviet Union. ... In the post Cold War, the most important distinctions among peoples are not ideological, political, or economic, but they are cultural. ... People define themselves in terms of religion, language, hi...

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The Soviet was trying to spread its Communist idea while the Americans tried to prevent Communist from spreading. ... A group of mostly wealthy and democratic societies that led by the United States was engaged in a pervasive ideological, political, economic, and at times, military competition with a group that were the poorer communist societies associated with the led by the Soviet Union. ... In the post Cold War, the most important distinctions among peoples are not ideological, political, or economic, but they are cultural. ... People define themselves in terms of religion, language, hi...

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As Americans, we often have certain ideologies that influence our view of these systems and hopefully this research will help to test and expand those ideologies. ... This faction would later come to be known as the Communist Party. ... Communist rule was troubled from the beginning in the Soviet Union. ... Upsurges of nationalism among the Soviet Republics challenged the legitimacy of the Soviet ideologies. ... As a result of the communist expansion the world has been more exposed to the communist ideologies, but the antagonism of communism has greatly strained relations (Johnson, 72). ...

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Background Marxism is a series of economical, social and political based ideologies that oppose capitalism. As defined by the communist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.... "5 Marx acquired the need for religion, but regarded religion as a subtle part to his ideologies. ... Taken by the government, the communists were behind this, as my father would always say. ... In the interview with my grandmother, she viewed the social conditions of this time period to be ridiculous and ironically unfair opposing Marx's actual ideology. ...

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Defining politics today has different meaning from 20th century. Littrë in his 1987 dictionary defined politics as the science of government of states'. Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. ... Success and failure of political ideology and ideological, material limitation of consumerism in democracy will be main element of my argument. ... This significant historical fact shows limits of ideology. ...

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Also, numerous conservatives were worried about a Communist takeover, because, by 1930, the Communists polled more than six million votes. ... This type of ideology focused on issues such as the nature of mankind, a mass party system, a system of terror, military control by the government, and alliances with big businesses. ... Furthermore, Stalin's rule of his Communist Party also exemplified totalitarian values. To begin, Stalin used this type of ideology to gain dictatorial control of the Communist Party in 1929. ... This party was defined as militaristic, anti-Marxist, and very na...

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The British political ideologies fall under the classical liberal title. ... It is hard to define Germany, but they fall under liberalism. ... The ideology of Russia is referred to as Marxism. ... The political party that has dominated Russian politics from the beginning is the Communist Party. ... Thus democracy will come with thick tension from old, Communist principles. ...

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The same potential solutions were supplied by the ideologies the invisible man faces during the plot - namely those of Bledsoe and Norton, the Brotherhood, and Ras. For being able to investigate the main character's search for identity these different ideologies are examined in order to divide his quest into different developmental stages. ... Still believing in the college's ideology he intends to return to his school. ... Washington's ideology the narrator first denies his southern black background when a typical southern breakfast is offered to him in a drugstore. ... Throug...

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Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. ... One is that it was an attempt to put communist ideology into practice, a view that originated in the nineteen twenties. ... The party's ideology was based on the ideas of Karl Marx. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. ... It seems that they were desperate to create what could call a communist state. ...

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