However, even though the protest was nonviolent and orderly, the Chinese Communist Party sent over 200,000 soldiers to stop the protest in Tiananmen Square. ... "China's government has yet to switch from a communist government to a democracy. ... The Chinese people refused to let the Chinese Communist Party repress their rights and freedom. The pro-democracy protestors continue to stand up for what they believe in and oppose the communist government. ... Jian notes that although there is a small amount of people fighting against the Chinese Communist Party, they are China's &quo...

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Changing from being ruled by monarchs, to imperialists, with a short lapse of democracy before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, and ongoing from the 1970s a blend of socialism and capitalism introduced by Deng Xiaoping. ... During the 19th century China finally saw fall towards the West through unfair trade impositions and regulations, and after World War II the Chinese Communist Party took control of the China that is known today. Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, s...

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"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles," Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto. ... Marx was certain that this was bound to happen anyway, for capitalism would always burst asunder because of its inner contradictions, and the communist revolution would usher in the new order in which alienation will vanish and man could own their own means of production, thus becoming regenerated in his true nature. ...

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How successful have the post-communist states been in establishing a stable democracy? Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. ... The conclusion will state the different success rates of the post-communist countries, and how each hopes to improve. ... This made it easier for the non-communist parties in post-communist Poland to have an "organizational basis for it-(Mair 1996,2). ... The first thing for Poland to do was the immediate removal of communist bar on competitive multiparty elections. ...

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Throughout the WARSAW Pact governments, all began redesigning cities with new styles of architecture based upon their interpretation of communist ideals. ... A few features that distinguished Romanian communist architecture are colour, size, and utilitarian functions. ... When Nicolae Ceaucescu's communist government was overthrown in the early 1990's, there was another creative resurgence almost as great as the one that sparked baroque. ... As a result, within months, monuments to communist power and cymbals of that perfect political dream were being torn down and new structures ...

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Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. ... It is currently a communist state under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un. The political system is originally modeled after the communist Soviet Union. ... According to cia.com, the communist Vietnamese government is also usually described as authoritarian. Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ...

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China represents one of five remaining communist countries in the world. ... One of the major features of communist economy is government intervention and collective ownership of property. ... First of all, people should be aware of the feature of communist political status. Although China has reform its economy for 30 years, communistic government may suddenly announce some new policies for protecting government's benefits but against the rules in capitalist free market. ...

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Up until recently this view point has change; Human rights and democracy do belongs together, without human rights society would eventually move towards the extreme left wing of the political spectrum hence a communist society would be formed and living in a communist would not be a very pleasant one. ... Once we have understood the principle of democracy(civil, economical, political, social and cultural) fully we can now understand the Human rights aspect of it as well; With Human Rights being incorporated into society we are able to have freedom of speech and expression , and just to have o...

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Up until recently this view point has change; Human rights and democracy do belongs together, without human rights society would eventually move towards the extreme left wing of the political spectrum hence a communist society would be formed and living in a communist would not be a very pleasant one. ... Once we have understood the principle of democracy(civil, economical, political, social and cultural) fully we can now understand the Human rights aspect of it as well; With Human Rights being incorporated into society we are able to have freedom of speech and expression , and just to have o...

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Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. ... Furthermore, the Romanian Government has skillfully played its cards close to its chest in as far as comments on last year's strained political circumstances in the Re-public of Moldavia are concerned, whose communist government had repeatedly ac-cused Romania of interfering in its internal affairs. ... Thus, in October 2002, the Hungarian president Ferenc Madl ...

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Heywood 2003 pg.54) For example, government in communist society plans amount of living necessary products annually and order to factories to make certain amount of products to distribute to people. ... Wide areas of disagreement between western thinkers and communists, their conceptions of politics have much obvious difference. The communists have abandoned the realism and basic human psychological facts, which were but a thin disguise for behavior that was idealistic far from practical. ...

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Eventually, the "land of the free" will turn into a Stalin-like communist state, where people are killed for stating their opinions, the government openly impedes the smarter people, and people can be taken from their homes and jailed, for the sole reason that they could be stronger, bigger and better than other people in society. ...

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For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. ... By 1923 prices had become ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited, and German goods were cheap for other countries to buy which did stimulate trade and employment. ...

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In 1979, China (which contained approximately 25% of the world's population), initiated a dramatic policy named "one child family" that aimed for major social and economic reforms. Rather then just trying to use other forms of birth prevention to control the countries population and limit industrial...

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In the news, the people of Hong Kong haven't been treated well by their so called democracy. According to Boston Globe, The people demand for more democracy, including the right to choose Hong Kong's political leaders without interference from Beijing. The Chinese government, for its part, wants to ...

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The biggest difference between China and those other three countries in government structure is that China is a Communist country while those other countries are democratic countries. Certainly, there are both pros and cons regarding those two different types of government structures.Within communist countries people are worried mostly about the independence in law which leads to corruption within the country. ... Furthermore, because the Chinese government is communist, it gives China a huge advantage over other developing democratic countries for many reasons. ... " (Weige China) With t...

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One person might say that anarchy would be the only way to have complete and utter freedom, while others would go as far as to believe a controlled communist government is the best route to achieving liberation. ...

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Locke John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was written in the 18th Century only to defend the cause of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and later used to justify the American Revolution of the late 18th Century. No one believed Locke's work would carry much weight after the ...

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Democracy is the fastest growing type of government in the world. More and more countries are revolting against their dictators and parliaments and evolving into Democracies. Democracy means the people are sovereign, government by the people. Representative institutions, therefore, derive their auth...

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The Free Corps, who had been given power by the Republic, were passionately nationalist, and secretly hoarded arms to fight the Communists and participate in a war of liberation against France and Poland. ...

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Violence was initially used as a solution by the communist government. The communist government believed that the revolution could not proceed without violence, therefore used violence to control European society. ...

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Political history taught us that Democracy started among the Athenians in what they called then as the "Polis" or the "city state". Etymologically, the term originated from two Greek terms, "demo" which means "people" and "cratus", meaning to rule, hence Democracy as the "rule of the people". It sta...

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This is in contrast to a communist society where you are part of the greater whole at the cost of losing one's individualism and personal say; and in contrast to a dictatorship or monarchy where there often are no individual rights and decisions are made by one person or a select few and are then handed down. ...

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The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. Many great and brilliant minds were put together to come up with a government based around, liberty, equality, and the pursuit o...

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The first part of this paper will deal with consequences for democracy as seen by Benjamin Barber. This theory will then be used to elucidate the current situation in the Middle East. The role of the elite will be explored both through Snyder and Barbers perspectives. Furthermore, some of the ideas ...

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