It was impressed upon him that he should reject French rule, and later Ho evidently did this by defying not only the French but also Japan, China and the United States. ... Ho Chi Minh tried to create a socialist revolution in Vietnam aimed at the rising of the whole nation in order to overthrow the ruling French and become independent. ... This is the basis premise of a nationalist revolution. Ho's management of this cause showed clearly that revolution was both a science and an art. ... It evidently shadows a nationalist's case on principles based on Thomas Jefferson and the foundi...

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Jaures persuaded many people against capitalism, an idea which he may have got from Marx years earlier, just as liberals may have got their lead from the French Revolution . However not only liberals got their ideas from the French Revolution, as Woolf states . The Socialist [second] International was formed in 1889, in honour of the centenary of the French Revolution . This is another example of Woolf's dead mind'- feeding off the French Revolution which occurred 100 years earlier, even though the ideas might have been passé . ... While the French Revolution brought e...

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While living in France, Ho developed an interest in politics and joined a group of Vietnamese nationalist in Paris. ... However, Wilson had little interest in removing the French colonial rule in Vietnam and turned Ho away. ... The August Revolution shortly came about in which the Viet Minh fought the Japanese, and the Japanese surrendered. ... The communist ideology was less broad, and focused more towards a social revolution in which revolt would be primarily led by peasants and the workers. ... In some ways they are related, however, communism has a much larger focus on a social revolution ...

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Karl's parents were steeped in free French ideas of politics , religion, life and art. ... The revolutions of 1789 and 1830 made the French capital a natural place to develop his theory on class struggles. ... After the Manifesto appeared, revolutions occurred in France and Germany, and the Belgian government, fearful of a revolution there, banished Marx. ... Later in the same year he was again banished from France. ... Many feel that Marx had got it wrong by predicting eminent revolution, but revolution did break out within days of the publication. ...

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Napoleon, the leader of the revolution was granted an immense amount of praise and power. ... The revolution also forced the rich to become wealthier. ... The social equality however was different than the French. The French were not concerned with monetary amounts of social equality, but with power of decision. The French embellished diversity while the Russians er1adicated it. ...

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" He appealed to workers of the central powers to conduct their own revolution and while his pleas did not go unanswered they caused little result. ... " The Commintern implied Twenty one conditions for admission in to the group, something that was intended to centralize and strengthen the parties control and further their chance of revolution. ... In this period the Bolsheviks began to work together with other socialists and other countries as the expected world revolution had not occurred and would not for many years. ... Overall it resulted in the Soviet Union being recognized by ...

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There needs to be a revolution in China. ... The people do not think about revolution, one because they are afraid, and two because they don't have anyone to lead them into battle so to speak. ... The French have established a more militaristic government because they have always had to defend their borders. France and China have had similar pasts so this would be a good reason for them to adopt the French from of government. France's Executive branch is made up of a President and a Prime Minister. ...

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Marx then immigrated to France. Arriving in Paris at the end of 1843, Marx quickly made contact with organized groups of immigrant German workers and with various sects of French socialists. ... Scarcely was The Communist Manifesto was published scarcely in 1848 before an 1848 wave of revolutions broke out in Europe. ...

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Marx was born in the aftermath of the French revolution where the governing elite was overthrown by the bourgeoisie allowing capitalism to develop. ... Marx's ideas were based on the presupposition of what is generally going to happen by interpreting the French revolution and its consequences. For Marx the French revolution merely was a political revolution. He assumes that a part of civil society, a specific class- the bourgeoisie- emancipated itself and that it did so because of peculiar circumstances in France at that time. ...

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Therefore, the only way in which Italy would change politically was in the form of a revolution. ... They had already attempted to take Tunisia years before, but had been beaten to it by France. ... Italians observed Britain, France and Germany becoming the empire they aspired to be. ... Revolution? ... Socialists saw the revolution in Russia and were inspired by it. ...

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It was caused by a revolution known as "The Bolshevik Revolution.... These people, known as royalists, managed to gain support from France, Great Britain, and partly the United States. This whole feud is a result of the "Bolsheviks Revolution....

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"The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas" (Marx, 29). ... After the French Revolution, feudalism was overthrown and replaced by free trade, which birthed a new class known as the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are millionaires who profit from a technological wave, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, at the expense of laborers, known as proletariats. ...

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With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relati...

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As Mussolini brought to Italy something their French counterparts always lacked, a leader, he also created a nations in which "it was no longer a matter of the interests of the international proletariat or the Italian proletariat: it was Italy first of all" . ... "Mussolini created a spiritual, political and moral revolution, a revolution for the entire nation" . ...

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Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. There were several people who made great contributions in this field. Two of these people were Karl Marx and Auguste Comte. They were great men of thought that aided in building the framew...

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Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. There were several people who made great contributions in this field. Two of these people were Karl Marx and Auguste Comte. They were great men of thought that aided in building the framew...

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According to Marx, the French Revolution was the most significant instance of this form of bourgeois independence. ... (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 British proletariats were not interested in Marx's full-scale revolution, but desired a system promoting their needs. This social change introduced laws prohibiting the bourgeoisie from forcing the proletariat class to work in such poor conditions as during the Industrial Revolution. ...

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Alienated Labor in the Jungle Socialism thrives when the alienation of labor survives. This is prevalent throughout the world today, especially in the Third World countries. During the Industrial Revolution, it was present in France and Germany too. This is where Karl Marx formulated his ideas ...

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Alienated Labor in the Jungle Socialism thrives when the alienation of labor survives. This is prevalent throughout the world today, especially in the Third World countries. During the Industrial Revolution, it was present in France and Germany too. This is where Karl Marx formulated his ideas ...

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Like many other great rulers like the Austrian born German Hitler and the Corsican born French leader Napoleon, Stalin was an outsider in the empire he came to rule. ... As the bourgeois became more wealthy the working class would grow ever more impoverished leading to a revolution and the establishment of what is called the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ... It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ...

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Revolutions, wars, and other struggles have been fought over his theories and concepts. ... This writing leads too many Marxist revolutions throughout Europe. ... By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution of Communism. ... Not long afterward, Communist Russia was attacked by Britain, America and France, who wanted to get rid of the communist government. ... France and the US are near the center and are mostly made up of mild totalitarian and capitalism. ...

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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 in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... French historian Alexis de Tocqueville supports this idea and, sort of prophetically, he wrote in 1835 a warning of a balance of power confrontation between the USSR and the USA. This was written before...

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Britain France Holland and Germany grew rich and powerful. ... Sometimes this is immediate as happens when a revolution interrupts the flow of raw materials, or, perish the thought, as would be the case if, in Russia's unstable political climate, terrorists manage to seize an arsenal of earth destroying nuclear missiles. ...

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Starting with England and continuing with France, Spain, and others, and now with the largest capitalist state ever seen, the United States, capitalism has been the root of many global conflicts. ... Karl Marx has said that all ruling classes came to power through a revolution, usually involving violence. The proletariat revolution that he predicted will also probably be a violent one. ...

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"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... Marxist, the name of his theory, was established during the Industrial Revolution of the mid-19th century. ... French Marxist philosopher, Louis Althusser (1971), believed that education socializes the minority's children into complying with their subordinate position in society to the middle class. ...

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