To fully understand Lenin's analysis of freedom and state, it is important to realize that the basis of his philosophy derives directly from the works of Marx, especially The Communist Manifesto. ... Overall, it is this Marxian view of capitalist exploitation of the proletariat and the elitist concept of freedom under capitalism that Lenin adopts in his general analysis of freedom. As for his analysis of the state, Lenin also derives his basic concept of the nature of the state from Marx's Communist Manifesto. ... In Lenin's analysis of freedom and state, his definition of ...

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The first substantial theorists on social change were Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto. ... For example, at the end of World War II when the USSR brought the "iron curtain" down across Eastern Europe this changed the whole world's future dividing it into two camps, the Communists and the Democrats. ... In his analysis, Wallerstein identifies two phenomena that govern the process of social change: cycles (political and economic) and trends. ...

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