Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. ... There are two principal interpretations of war communism. ... This was used to enforce war communism and crush any opposition. ... The first stage was one of primitive communism. ... Pipes argues that "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious and as it turned out premature attempt to introduce full-blown communism" (The Russian Revolution). ...

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The followers of Marx has spread communism into every perspective of today's society. ... As defined by the communist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.... As one of the most influential political manuscripts, this book presents an analytical approach to the class struggles both during the past and present times resulting from capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. ... Ultimately Marx believes communism is the key to equal rights of all men and women through business. ...

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Marx believed that in the future there would be a state of communism where there would be no inequality and your ownership or lack of wealth, due to how much land you owned. ... This defines a group of individuals who have a common background and work together. ...

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As well as his ideologies of false consciousness, his belief of capitalisms need for reform, inequality and exploitation of the working classes could be addressed and abolished, that society is not defined by that of natural rights, but defined by the nature of our class status. ... (Communist Manifesto, p.46) In conclusion, communism is an idealists" utopian dream. ...

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Introduction Karl Marx is considered as the father of "communism." ... To define it first, globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. ... Because of production, man can find a meaning of his own life, that he can be productive by producing something through his own work and effort and that man should be able to define his own self through his creativity and his desire to produce something that he wants and by this he...

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The Importance of Property in Society Two different ideas are presented in John Locke's, The Second Treatise on Government and Karl Marx and Frederick Engel's, The Communist Manifesto. In The Second Treatise on Government, Locke explains that man's state of nature is a law of nature which is ...

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(Marx-Engels Reader P.483) Weber does not agree that class conflict is what defines history, but he does say that a class, though not being a community, has the possibility for producing societal action. ... One thing that I believe both Marx and Weber didn't look at is the fact that whatever the basis for our means of producing life's necessities, whether it be capitalism or communism, is that we are by nature animals that are driven to survive. ...

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