The social, political and economic events of November 1917, these include the food shortages and progressively losing the war. ... The decision by the government to continue the war effort was not like by the people, the reason why Kerensky wanted to keep Russia in the war was so that when they won the war he would be re-elected. ... An example of this is an unskilled worker earns 1rub-1 rub. 25 kop before the war, during the war he earns 2 rub. 50 kop. ... Lenin like Marx believed that 1. ... At the time of the revolution Russia was at war, this was causing social unrest through out the count...

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"The Collapse of the Second International," "Socialism and War," and "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" all showed Lenin's belief, because of World War I, that capitalism was in crises and that the time for European revolution was afoot. Lenin wrote: "To the question, "What would the party of the proletariat do if the revolution placed it in power in the present war?" ... During this time the Russian economy was in bad shape and worsening daily because of the strain the civil war was having. In order to combat this Lenin instituted an economic program, which came to be know...

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Social political correctness, on the other hand, is more aligned to fixing languages and beliefs in an attempt to bolster social harmony to minimize offenses towards certain groups rather then doing so by economic means (Lind, 2000, para. 1). ... "Marxist theory said that when the general European war came the working class throughout Europe would rise up and overthrow their governments ", but this never occurred, he asserted (para. 12). ... He states, "88 percent of academic economists supported the ˜war on poverty, " but "61 percent of those same economists opposed the minimum wage l...

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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, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. ... Deng Xiaoping brought western economic reform to open up the economy and called...

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The Third Way stresses activist, dynamic government for, "In a globalizing world, we need more government, not less." ... The classic socialist ideology of Robert Owen and Karl Marx, that had stood the Labour Party in good stead since its foundation was being re-forged and honed, the post war political scene was evolving into something entirely different to what had gone before. ... 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. ....

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"1 As one of the most influential thinkers in the nineteenth century, Marx has had a direct, deliberate and powerful influence upon mankind both during and after his lifetime. ... " 2 Marxism in other words are equality for all, which Karl Marx believed was the key factor to keeping peace in the world, since he proclaimed history as a repeating cycle of wars, caused by class struggles and uprisings. 3 In terms of economy, Marxism lays basis of labour and its relation to capital, abandons private ownership of property, and exploits surplus value made formally by the middle class unde...

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