But according to Rodney Guin, a high school history teacher, those within a Communistic system often worry about how they will feed their family tomorrow. ... In 1924, a coalition including Communists adopted Yat-sen's theory, based on the Three People's Principles developed by San Min Chu I. ... Yat-Sen died in 1925, and for a while, Kai-Shek followed his predecessor's policy of cooperating with the Chinese Communists. He even accepted Russian aid until 1927, when he reversed his beliefs, and so began the civil war between the Kuomintang and Communists. ... No wonder the Ku...

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"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles," Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto. ... Marx was certain that this was bound to happen anyway, for capitalism would always burst asunder because of its inner contradictions, and the communist revolution would usher in the new order in which alienation will vanish and man could own their own means of production, thus becoming regenerated in his true nature. ...

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Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. ... It is currently a communist state under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un. The political system is originally modeled after the communist Soviet Union. ... According to cia.com, the communist Vietnamese government is also usually described as authoritarian. Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ...

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In each of these nations, the communist regimes in power were forced to transfer that power to radically different institutions than they were accustomed to. ... The peoples involved were not looking to affect a narrow set of policy reforms; indeed, what was at stake was a hyper-radical shift from the long-held communist ideology to a western blueprint for governmental and economic policy development. ... Preuss, "In almost all the East and Central European countries, the collapse of authoritarian communist rule has released national, ethnic, religious and cultural conflicts whic...

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What's more it reminds me of stories told by my family when they lived in communist Vietnam. ... He dislikes communism because he believes that communist societies will not work if unless the people and the government are without greed. In the book the society is a communist one because there exist no classes and everything produced is commonly owned. ... It was during this time that socialist and communist ideas were rampant in Europe. One of the major communist powers at this time was the U.S.S.R.. ...

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In spite of China's economic liberalization, its Communist party-state retains the essential organization structure that the Chinese communist party adopted from the Soviet Union. Although the reformist leaders in China have embraced the concept of market freedom rejecting Marx's idea, their decision to retain a closed political structure is very much in accord with Lenin's vision of the communist part-state. ... However, it does have a Communist party (Chinese Communist Party) which has been ruling the country for over 2000 years. Although China has opened up new avenues for ec...

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Up until recently this view point has change; Human rights and democracy do belongs together, without human rights society would eventually move towards the extreme left wing of the political spectrum hence a communist society would be formed and living in a communist would not be a very pleasant one. ... Once we have understood the principle of democracy(civil, economical, political, social and cultural) fully we can now understand the Human rights aspect of it as well; With Human Rights being incorporated into society we are able to have freedom of speech and expression , and just to have o...

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Up until recently this view point has change; Human rights and democracy do belongs together, without human rights society would eventually move towards the extreme left wing of the political spectrum hence a communist society would be formed and living in a communist would not be a very pleasant one. ... Once we have understood the principle of democracy(civil, economical, political, social and cultural) fully we can now understand the Human rights aspect of it as well; With Human Rights being incorporated into society we are able to have freedom of speech and expression , and just to have o...

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Communist theory will the our focus. ... Recent history has shown that the Communist approach to the press works best in a closed society where information is tightly controlled by the government. Freedom of speech in communist countries are restricted, almost none at all. ... Therefore the people of communist countries are being fed and are puppets to the Government. ... Communist countries feel that it is necessary to speak with one voice, and anti-government or anti-praty criticism is forbidden. ...

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Heywood 2003 pg.54) For example, government in communist society plans amount of living necessary products annually and order to factories to make certain amount of products to distribute to people. ... Wide areas of disagreement between western thinkers and communists, their conceptions of politics have much obvious difference. The communists have abandoned the realism and basic human psychological facts, which were but a thin disguise for behavior that was idealistic far from practical. ...

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In 1938 the Popular Front Party was created through a coalition of Communists, Radicals, and Socialists. ... In 1957 the three main democratic parties formed a coalition excluding the communist party. ...

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For example, French Anarcho-communist author Daniel Guerin outlines the manner in which anarchism would organize the workplace by the form of worker self-management known as syndicalism. Similarly, American Anarcho-communist author Eddie Conlon stresses the potential of decentralized universal healthcare as shown in revolutionary Spain based upon mutual concern without the hand of privatization and organized based through a system of communal federations from the bottom up. ...

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DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS A civil society, democracy at the grass roots, and a political culture were needed for the transition from a Communist system. ... The leading role of the Communist Party was taking away the right of social and political initiative. ...

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For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. ... By 1923 prices had become ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited, and German goods were cheap for other countries to buy which did stimulate trade and employment. ...

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This paper provides a comparative analysis of the democratic performance of three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- of the post-communist region of Central Eastern Europe, to lay the ground for further research into why their performance scores where it does on our scale. ... The three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- all have very similar historical backgrounds having some sort of democratic institutions present previous to the establishment of the communist rule in the region. ... Nevertheless, corruption and the lack of political agencies' autonomy ...

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Violence was initially used as a solution by the communist government. The communist government believed that the revolution could not proceed without violence, therefore used violence to control European society. ...

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In 1920, the country of Japan was beginning to show outward signs that it was embarking on a path towards political modernization and a model of relatively liberal democracy. Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. Rapid industrialization developed both a moneyed bourgeoisie and an urban proletariat, and trade unions and political organizations had begun to spring up at a greatly accelerate...

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Political history taught us that Democracy started among the Athenians in what they called then as the "Polis" or the "city state". Etymologically, the term originated from two Greek terms, "demo" which means "people" and "cratus", meaning to rule, hence Democracy as the "rule of the people". It sta...

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This is in contrast to a communist society where you are part of the greater whole at the cost of losing one's individualism and personal say; and in contrast to a dictatorship or monarchy where there often are no individual rights and decisions are made by one person or a select few and are then handed down. ...

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The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. Many great and brilliant minds were put together to come up with a government based around, liberty, equality, and the pursuit o...

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The first part of this paper will deal with consequences for democracy as seen by Benjamin Barber. This theory will then be used to elucidate the current situation in the Middle East. The role of the elite will be explored both through Snyder and Barbers perspectives. Furthermore, some of the ideas ...

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Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party sought legitimacy as defenders of the revolution and then subsequently leading the people towards their goal, whether the people wanted it or not. ...

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