Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . ... In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. ... Terrified of in-party ...

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Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . ... In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. ... Terrified of in-party o...

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Karl Marx set forth the fundamental proposition, which forms the nucleus of the Communist Manifesto: that consequently the whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes; that the history of these class struggles forms a series of evolutions in which, nowadays, a stage has been reached where the exploited and oppressed class-the proletariat-cannot attain its emancipation from the sway of the exploiting and ruling class...

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While this may encourage a lack of personal sympathy and the alienation of those at the bottom of the pyramid, it can surely be argued that governments even in capitalist states take steps to regulate the actions of companies in a neoliberalist society. The idea of a national minimum wage and set maximum working hours are two examples of such intervention, and while such notions are indisputably necessary and in keeping with the charitable element of human nature, they are, to the pure capitalist/neoliberalist, barriers to the maximum possible profit. ... While the minimum wage today might b...

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