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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The struggle to lead China has caused the country to undergo mass socio-economic changes on more than one occasion, from the fall of imperialism in 1911 to the rise of the Nationalists and Communists. ... Evidently, these ideologies remained enduring features of Mao's thought well into the Cultural Revolution. ... As a Marxist, Mao believed in Karl Marx's theories published in The Communist Manifesto (1848), and from the beginning of Mao's dictatorship in 1921, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials applied Mao's theories that people's lives should be controlled by t...

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One might ask, how both of these countries with a Communist government could achieve such high level of economic growth, hence in order to understand how their transformation led to today's development, it is important to compare and contrast gradualism with shock therapy economic reform approaches. ... Gradualist approach to reform can be defined as a sequential implementation of minimum bangs (terminology from Williamson, 1991). ... The first one, which extends from Deng Xiaoping's 1978 "opening and reform" to the early 1990's, the Communist Party emphasized rural devel...

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Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amount of data published about it. ... Events casting the Cultural Revolution in a negative light include the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the rise of Occidentalism, availability of new evidence and the death of Lin Biao. ... While most historians were analysed according to their general and individual perspectives at the time of writing, others were sim...

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