The leaders of the capitalist class saw the role of the FICCI as 'national guardians of trade, commerce and industry', performing in the economic sphere in colonial India the functions of a national government. ... The leaders of the capitalist class saw the necessity of, and felt strong enough for, the class to effectively intervene in politics. ... By the time the third decade of the twentieth century began Sarkar argues that the bourgeoisie first encouraged and supported the nationalist leaders, Congress and Gandhi, to start the Civil Disobedience Movement to gain a better bar...

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Ho Chi Minh, according to many Vietnamese during the time and still to this day, was considered one of the greatest leaders the Vietnamese ever had. ... Ho then re-established contact with the ICP leaders, and later helped found the Viet Minh group which was based both on nationalist and communist principles. ... Ho Chi Minh then declared independence for Vietnam, and acted as the country's leader. ... Although he took certain aspects from both ideologies in his movement, the two ideologies do not necessarily naturally follow the other. ... Although the fight for U.S. independence from Br...

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The Chinese leader envisioned a perfect communal society modeled strictly after the doctrines and theories of great socialist writers. ... The turning point of Chinese economic development came in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping became the unofficial leader of the nation. ... Oddly enough it is the Tiananmen Square movement that most clearly shows how these conditions help maintain China's dictatorship. The leaders of the pro-democracy rally in Beijing were mainly upper class college students who resided in urban areas. ... Due to the stratified nature of Chinese society, the urban intellectuals ...

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Laudable and Heroic Mussolini Benito Mussolini over the course of his lifetime went from Socialism to the leadership of a new political movement called fascism. During many years, Italy was faced with false, disloyal leaders, and Mussolini came and augmented Italy and became the spokesman of a nation betrayed by its leaders, who could only make Italy dependent on Germany and Austria . "He was the leader who succeeded where his mentors had so lamentably failed" , Mussolini was far more involved in the process of governing and accomplishing the Italian Nationalist dream than many of the Italia...

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Ironically, due to their sheer numerical superiority, workers and peasants should be the main force of any potential mass movement. ... In fact, they even addressed the central leaders of CCP as beloved and respected, and showed their trust in the leaders to solve the problems. The workers also emphasized that their grievances were in line with the parties laws and policies, and drew a clear wedge between national leaders and corrupted local officials. ... Yet facing the iron-fist control of CCP on any protest or social mass movement, neither group is able to push the ruling party into reform....

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Communist Party leaders still believe in public ownership, and they worry that further privatization will spell the end of the party's monopoly on power. ... For many Chinese leaders, these problems are simply possible outcomes of normal market functioning. ... The ultimate question for China's leaders is whether or not this notion of a market-socialist system will withstand China's troubled times. ... The leaders of the movement are young, but they are groping towards an independent workers movement, one step of which will have to be the setting up of a genuine party of the w...

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There are various ways in which single-party leaders of the past have managed to strengthen their power, but what is tantamount is the strengthening of their power domestically, which has proven to be the most vital item on the agendas of two of the twentieth century's most famous single-party leaders; Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. These two men, leaders of fascist Nazi Germany and Communist China respectively, both sought to make sure that within the borders of their nations, every citizen followed their rule. ... Once in power, any single-party leader must find means to quiet down the op...

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Lenin thought no revolutionary movement could take place or have lasting power "without a stable organization of leaders maintaining continuity". According to Lenin, the more people that are drawn into the struggle and start a movement the greater the need for a strong organization to back them up. ... This would also make it easier for more people from the working class and other classes to join and participate in the movement. ...

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Fabians disagree with Marx over the point of revolution, their movement is just as much in support of core socialist values, such as the need to help workers and create economic equality. ... The movement, while appealing to many in the working class, was a force primarily kept in motion by those in the well off parts of society. ... The Fabian movement was very much a scientific movement and its beliefs based on careful analysis of fact and study. ... The leaders of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were disinterested in anarchism and brushed aside most of its ideas. ... Its time as a real m...

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Authors of radio programs pointed out that the leaders of these countries had been put in power by Stalin, and behaviors, existing there, were not so different from those that had been established in the USSR under Stalin. ... Khrushchev's speech undermined the political positions of many leaders of the communist parties in the world. ... The mixed reaction of the international communist movement, disorders in the socialist countries of Europe, the events in Georgia, a secondary failure of returning Yugoslavia in the socialist camp during Tito's visit to the USSR in June 1956, le...

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One of these was a movement called Bolshevism whose origins are found in Marxism. This movement had as its leader a radical, impatient revolutionary by the name of Vladimir Lenin. ... Vladimir Lenin was born in Russia in 1870 and joined the rise of the anti-tsarist movement at an early age. ... This movement regarded themselves as Marxists, but they differed on how Marxism could be applied to Russia's different set of circumstances. ... In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere repre...

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The Bolsheviks, which had been formed due to a split of the Social Democratic Labor party in 1903, found new popularity, mainly due to its leader, Vladimir Lenin. ... He became the leader the party needed, and set about gaining support for his ideas from peasants and factory workers abroad. ... In an attempt to gain momentum for Lenin's movement, Trotsky convinced Lenin to name the revolution in favor of the soviets. ...

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He adds that class separation is also evident in politics in that political leaders seek to appeal to the lower and middle class populations to obtain more supporters. ... They cite the removal of imperial powers and powerful dictators by their subjects in North America, India, Africa, Vietnam, Poland, and Philippines, and the elimination of slavery through the abolitionist movement and legal segregation in America through the Civil Rights movement. ...

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" While Europeans have not been fully successful in reaching their envisioned ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity the human and individual rights, equality, and violence can be examined to show the continuous movement of societies towards these goals. ... Fascism was also a common governing style, with a leader ruling under the notion that all sovereignty is located in the organic nation. ... They limited their movement of jobs by implementing workbooks telling a person's job history, clearly limiting an individual's right to work where they please (Hansen 11/2/12). ......

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The Narodniki resented the new Marxist movement and became bitterly hostile towards them. ... He became leader of a collection of scattered groups entitled the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. ...

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On the other hand, past Caribbean leaders such as Michael Manley (Jamaica), Forbes Burnham (Guyana) and Maurice Bishop (Grenada), were all persuaded by Marxism and Neo- Marxism. ... On the contrary, Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement (NJM) aim were to liberate the people of Grenada from colonial political thinking under the Eric Gairy administration. ...

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In an interview the Prime Minister said that his long-term aim was to put New Labour at the head of a world-wide movement of ideas and to create an international consensus for the centre-left in the 21st century. ... As David Marquand said in the same programme, Blair is a leader who seeks to include all but the far left and the far right." ...

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Francois Quesnay, a French economist leader of the physiocrats, believed that only the agricultural classes are capable of producing surplus out of which the state could find the capital to support an expansion of the flow of money or could levy taxes to meet its needs. ...

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