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. ... Alienation only makes the bourgeois become more powerful and through their ideology of false-consciousness they keep the workers from revolting by leading them to believe that the bourgeois in fact are good and only want the best for the workers. ... This, as well as other ideals, is detailed in The Co...

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Background Marxism is a series of economical, social and political based ideologies that oppose capitalism. As defined by the communist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.... "5 Marx acquired the need for religion, but regarded religion as a subtle part to his ideologies. ... Taken by the government, the communists were behind this, as my father would always say. ... In the interview with my grandmother, she viewed the social conditions of this time period to be ridiculous and ironically unfair opposing Marx's actual ideology. ...

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Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. ... One is that it was an attempt to put communist ideology into practice, a view that originated in the nineteen twenties. ... The party's ideology was based on the ideas of Karl Marx. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. ... It seems that they were desperate to create what could call a communist state. ...

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One might ask, how both of these countries with a Communist government could achieve such high level of economic growth, hence in order to understand how their transformation led to today's development, it is important to compare and contrast gradualism with shock therapy economic reform approaches. ... Gradualist approach to reform can be defined as a sequential implementation of minimum bangs (terminology from Williamson, 1991). ... The first one, which extends from Deng Xiaoping's 1978 "opening and reform" to the early 1990's, the Communist Party emphasized rural devel...

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Mongolia was an economic colony of the Soviet Union until early in the 20th century. Consequently between 1921 and 1990 it had an economic system which reflected the Soviet's control : it had a centralized, socialist political system and an economy based on central planning and collectivization. Under the umbrella of the Soviet Union Mongolia had made significant progress in improving the general living standards of the population, specifically in the areas of education and public health (Tsogtsaikhan: 2003:1). The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 resulted in Mongolia shifting dra...

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