All public services were provided by the communes and all materials required for daily life is provided by the communes as well. However, as the Great Leap Forward carried on, at around 1959, people within the communes were faced with impossible tasks in labor ordered by the commune leaders. ... We started to live in big groups, called "communes", where food, daily supplies, entertainment and even 'education' or more like brain washing was provided by these communes. ... 'Rich girls' like me were bullied by the others in the communes. The commune leaders forced u...

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Starting in the 19th century anarchism saw a surge in its number of followers. ... He interacted personally with Proudhon, and was an avid supporter of the Paris Commune, a socialistic governing body started by followers of Proudhon that briefly ruled Paris in 1871 (Alistair 331-2). ... Each time anarchist seize power by force the end result is mass murder, and the reinstatement of government at great costs, such as the Paris Commune (SOURCE). On which the American ambassador at the time wrote, the Commune was guilty of "unparalleled atrocities", and the retaliation "awful venge...

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In October of 1835, he started attendance at the University of Bonn, enrolling in non-socialistic-related classes like Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. ... Marx's distinction as a political figure really came in 1870 with the Paris Commune. He became an international figure and his name "became synonymous throughout Europe with the revolutionary spirit symbolized by the Paris Commune." ...

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He saw "socialism- as being a pacific term veering more towards Utopian ideas, while "communism- was a more militant word, implying the revolutionary concept of the abolition of private property, echoed by the Parisian Commune back in 1793. ... Human society started with a tribal communist system (savagery and barbarism, each being the lower and higher forms). ... When the primeval communist system in the barbarism period ended with a patriarchal society, with private allotments for private families, conflict started. ...

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Indeed, we need go no further than the title of Kant's most important book on religion, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, to see that he assumes right from the start that religion can and ought to be viewed only within a narrow set of rational limits. ... While modern research has discovered many tribes living in what resembles Marx's primitive communes, none of them seem to be any less religious than modern capitalist societies (147). ...

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