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. ... In this early stage of communism, there was no private property, no classes or privileged elite and what we now know as the family. ... From this barbarism period emerged the slave society. The slave society actually had its roots in the barbarism society. ... Thus the world has witnessed the finished circle, the final product of our society, a co...

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What are the differing views on this ideology, and more importantly how are they relevant to today's society? ... First, European history professor and author Carl Landauer expresses the idea that anarchism is simply a utopian way of thinking. In his work European Socialism, Landauer claims government is a "lesser evil" than a society without "repressive force.... A political philosophy that believes everyone should be allowed to do what ever he wants is by its nature a very unstable philosophy. ... Perhaps the world is just not ready for anarchy, or perhaps anarchists sim...

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Marx may have had a slightly different idea of what exactly the study of dialectics was, but as I pointed out so did both Plato and Aristotle. ... Wealth was the internal struggle as he saw it, because it determined the way the people would act, and thus what government they would choose to rule. ... They all carried the same basic idea endorsed by their founding father, Lenin, who put out documents saying that third world countries could revolt and still end up with a wonderful utopian government. ... They saw the USSR as the only example of what communism accomplished, and it was bad. .....

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Due to the problems caused by alienation and exploitation, Marx introduced the idea of socialism, that which he believed was a society that served the individual needs of man. ... Socialism: Alienation is one of the central concepts in Marx's philosophy, providing an analysis of what is perceived to be an essential feature of the capitalist way of production and how it relates to humans. ... Marx was not the first philosopher that suggested socialism but he did differ from other philosophers by moving away from the unrealistic expectations of a utopian civilization and the desire and a...

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