The communist government that holds a stringent grip in China is a secular state that regulates religion within the region. ... Religion has always been a hot button issue the for communist regime in China, Mau and his communist confederates have always seen religion as a poison in society, disregarding the many centuries of Chinese traditions and culture, the cultural revolution tried to destroy the rich tradition of the Chinese imperial history. ... The Communist regime claimed that the group was spreading "fallacies" and "superstitions" and that the group was controlled...

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The release of the Communist Manifesto (published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) on the Russian populace in the late 18th century was a catalyst for the violent, bloody Bolshevik revolution in 1917 – however the influence of the Manifesto, and by extension Marxism, is still hotly debated by historians and differing historiographical schools of thought. The Marxist school of thought, rooted by the namesake inspiration of communist ideals and Marx's original ideas and theories, followed the ideology that revolution is 'inevitable' and that in order for society...

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Civil War (1918-1920) significantly altered the Bolsheviks structure of ruling- from a disorderly yet democratic system into a 'dictatorship of the Communist Party. Against Marxist ideologies, the Bolsheviks employed terrorist tactics, which consisted of the abolishment of soldiers' committees, the reestablishment of the death penalty and conscription, the reinstatement of social hierarchy and the reinstatement of Tsarists officers as 'military specialists', which anti-Communist historian Richard Pipes argues "exceeded in savagery anything known in the tsarist armies...

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The party, led by a small vanguard, began implementing communist (Leninist) ideologies whilst gaining popular support amongst the population, by succeeding their campaign slogan, peace bread and land for example. ... Moreover, Lenin's early popular communist measures were changed which in turn was accepted by the party including the removal of worker rights, and the re-institution of conscription and army hierarchy. ...

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Historian Michael Burleigh stated "The threat from the extreme left had been neutralised, albeit in a fashion that soured relations between Social Democrats and Communists up to and beyond the eventual advent of a Nazi government" The favouring and lenience from the government towards the ride wing such as the Friekorps and their violent nature undermined the institution of the Weimar Republic. ... Any chance of having a successful democratic government was undermined because of broken relations between the social democrats and left wing communist (Sparticists). ...

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Anslinger's arguments against marijuana were so sporadic that they often contradicted themselves ranging from marijuana made a person a lustful immoral killer to a brain-dead impotent person open to communist ideas. ...

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In 1919, economy experienced postwar inflation and many industry workers started to loose their jobs, and in same year, as the American communist party began, to fight back against these radical groups, antiradicalism, which was the idea of "100 percent Americanism", raised, and it was called Red Scare. ...

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Question What are some of the criticisms that Nietzsche might make of Marx's political vision and critique of modernity. Your answer might address the following aspects of Marx's political theory: Marx's approach to human history. Marx's ideal of human emancipation, Marx's critique of contemporary m...

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