If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. ... "The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." The experience of the Korean War, which left the safety of South Korea dependent upon the presence of American soldiers, sealed the U.S. government's attitude that all communist movements were hostile to the interests of the Un...

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Worse, I can site examples where we have spoken out against "Uncle Sam" and, not unlike the peasants of 17th century France, we suffered severe consequences including loss of life. ... Four college students at Kent State were shot and killed when college students exercised their right to free speech and spoke out against our participation in the Vietnam "conflict." ... Even though I am just now beginning to question my government, having only recently realized that my current rights and freedom's were fought hard for by the people before me and were not handed over to me by "Uncle Sam;" I...

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In compliance with this thought, we will also look at freedom house, which gives an annual report on the levels of freedom' in each particular country, again proving essential to identify who is progressing and who is lagging or at a standstill. ... It is not just political freedom that matters, but also general freedom, which supports additional rights and liberties, "the freedom we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life- (Pericles 431b.c). ... It is the transition from communist to democratisation we will be looking at, and whether or not the transition was smooth ...

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He said that they were the first to have free enterprise. ... The Europe and US were rich and happy. ... They call this seed money because you have to have money before you have a campaign. ... In a Communist Society people are naturally free, loving, caring, and sharing. ... After the revolution we would elect the same managers as before because they have the experience. ...

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They were becoming greedy. ... The author is telling his readers that we cannot escape the greed of others; we cannot escape the wrong doings of the people who care only about themselves. ... Their free and optimistic society, their society of equality and happiness will soon change for the worse. ... It is no longer the happy and free place they knew. ... It was then that they realised they were no longer living in their free and happy society. ...

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The United States, which has the power to make nearly every other country in the world do whatever we want, maintains an embargo against Cuba, where all citizens are given free medical treatment, citing "human rights violations". ... So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed." ... If everything were available to everyone, why would robberies happen? ... So here we have it, capitalism, feeding on violence and growing, and violence, being created by capitalism in proportion to its growth. ... Whatever there is to be gained by going to war is spent many times over just to re...

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"As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labor fix a property in." ... This freedom is known today as market freedom or free trade. Today we know free trade as a trade between nations without custom tariffs. ... Free trade allows the bourgeoisie to exploit the proletariats. ... Both Locke and Marx felt as though freedom, government, and property were all related in their respective times. ...

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"We of the Kennedy and Johnson administration who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. ... Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. ... "We are in Vietnam because our national security and security of the entire free world demands that firm line be drawn against the further advance of Communist imperialism - in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, and in Europe." (Dodd 810) More third world countries fall into the communist hands in 1960's that ever before. ... "We fight because we must fight if we are to li...

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Many people were opposed to the idea of abolishing their country's identity, because of their nationalistic and chauvinistic backgrounds. However, according to Marx and Engels, "the working men have no country" because "we cannot take from them what they have not got.... Before a classless society can exist, Marx and Engels believed that first, the proletariat had to rise up and take the political throne from their superiors. ... If one were to take a closer look at the words "proletariat" and "nation," it is pretty easy to notice the irony between the ...

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Before the bourgeoisie rose to prominence, society is organized according to a feudalistic order run by aristocratic landowners and corporate guilds. ... (pg. 484) "We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy." ... The only way the proletariat can free itself from bourgeoisie corruption is to abolish capitalism. ... The New Deal and the era of the Great Depression introduced communistic concepts a capitalistic society never imagined before. ... Such new societal changes...

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Before I bought the book, I thought it would be a funny criticism of totalitarian regime like in the Animal Farm. ... In the book we read that people are always watched in everywhere, even in their house. ... Everyday on TV we can watch on magazine programs who the latest girlfriend of these famous people is or whom they meet secretly. ... In the book Goldstein commented that just animals and proles were free. ... Before revolution the proles in Russia suffer from poverty and the pressure of the Czar on the society while the Czar and his family lived in luxury. ...

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To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ruled, its economy, its politics and its social status before and during the time he ruled; not just his actions. ... "Now there stands before us a new task - the industrialization of our country. ... Is it possible to doubt that we shall be equal to this new task, the industrialization or our country? ... "We make good the difference in ten years, or they crush us," were Stalin's words before he came up with his series of three five year plans. ... Inmates in the gulags or labour camps were used...

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Imagine that this hypothetical country had not been asked by the South for assistance, but simply interfered because the morals in their land disagreed with the idea of freeing slaves. ... However; before being able to fully understand the way in which America's mistakes were made, one must understand the reasons the U.S. was involved with another country's civil war to begin with. ... Chanting their anthem of "Hell no, we won't go", thousands burned their draft cards knowing full well the consequence of doing so was jail or prison time. ... He would proceed to pick ra...

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Politics it self strived to find idealistic methods of politics and philosophy in the history and so now we are living in the capitalism and democracy society. ... Secondly, The role of politics expended larger than any time before in the history. ... US applied pressure to Korea to by F-15, which were made by America Boeing Company. ... There were already many suspicions before government selected KF-16 in 10 years ago, performance of planes were contrary to government's expectation too. ... There were 7 possible candidates. ...

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Therefore The West were also responsible to create the tension between Russia. ... German Investigators had concluded that the corpses were Polish prisoners who were brutally massacred by Russian Soldiers. ... These zones were to be used for occupation. They also decided to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. ... From all the events which took place during the Cold War, we can see that Joseph Stalin's yearn for power is what prompted him towards communism and pointless conflicts with other countries. ...

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Critically Examine the Pluralist Theory of the State Before we can examine the pluralist theory of the state it is first necessary to define exactly what is meant by the term state'. Once this is done we can look at the pluralist conception of the state, or more accurately, the pluralist conception of the role that the state plays in society. ... There are a number of influential political theorists that believed in the pluralist ideals and were involved in its creation and understanding. ... The theorist Michels put forward the idea that no matter what a political party says about h...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. ... Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were widely used. ... In 1939 those who had conducted the purges were also executed. ... Those inside of the Soviet bloc were completely...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. ... Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were widely used. ... In 1939 those who had conducted the purges were also executed. ... Those inside of the Soviet bloc were completely...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. ... Free press and civil liberties were suppressed. Censorship and propaganda were widely used. ... In 1939 those who had conducted the purges were also executed. ... Those inside of the Soviet bloc were completely...

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However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterparts such as Montgomery and Eisenhower, copies of books written or translated into English regarding the matter were rare, to say the least. ... There were exceptions- MacFarquhar's recent works are not as apologist to Mao as Origins of the Cultural Revolution, and the main cause of this seems to be the changing nature of evidence and world events. ... While most historians were analysed according to their general and individual perspectives at the time of writing, others were simply defined by their genera...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. ... Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social system just one year before local elections, which in turn would lead to the country's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007? ... Moreover, the relations to Hungary, which, after the introduction in 2001 of t...

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To answer this, I have selected three countries in East Asia who are close to China in geographical terms and also very similar to China before the Foreign Direct Investment swarmed into China in the 1990s; India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. ... As of right now, we have not seen groups of investors pull their investments out of China. ... Due to the power outage many factories were forced to cut down their production; seeing that power is the life-blood of production. ... "Would make it very difficult for me to explain to the board that we want to stay here and want to develop the compa...

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The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ... As Lenin had made clear, the N.E.P was a step backwards so that we can make two steps forward' and in 1928 these two step forwards were becom...

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