For people such as Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan to fulfill their dreams, people are going to be hurt in the process, the people that Marx is trying to help. Also, part of achieving your own dreams is gaining your own personal property, something to call your own, something that is not a part of communism for in communism, "capital property is converted into common property," (1003). ... However, for Marx, the free sharing of ideas simply contributes to the unending struggles between the classes, "the social consciousness of the past ages moves within certain common forms, or general ideas,...

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As a result, within months, monuments to communist power and cymbals of that perfect political dream were being torn down and new structures of newer materials and of newer design were being erected. ...

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In his novel Cement, Gladkov presents the struggle of finding equality, coping with the brutal history that shaped the minds of Soviet citizens, and rebuilding a social and familial structure that fits within the new framework of communism. ...

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Christiana Lodder confirms in Art of the Soviets this revolutionary step in including art as a major collation within the government when she explains "Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda [is] immensely important because for the first time art was directly harnessed to the service of the state and its ideology" (16). ...

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