Many of the recent immigrants from Britain experienced the working-class uprisings in the industrial revolution and brought with them ideology regarding industrial-class labour unions. ... Yet, hope of a better future arrived with the immigrants who carried ideas of industrial-class labour unions that could help negotiate the changes they sought. ... The end of the World War I intensified the deepening conflict in industrial relations. ... In addition to the influx of people and the rise of unemployment, the conclusion of World War I also brought with it the rise of revolutionary industrial un...

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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 . ... Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also included the elimination of the wealthy peasantry, the kulaks. ... The disastrous ferocity of Stalin's agrarian revolution condemned Soviet agriculture to decades of stagnation, and "the bloody experiment cost millions of lives. ... Stalin set fantastically unrealis...

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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 . ... Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also included the elimination of the wealthy peasantry, the kulaks. ... The disastrous ferocity of Stalin's agrarian revolution condemned Soviet agriculture to decades of stagnation, and "the bloody experiment cost millions of lives. ... Stalin set fantastically unrealist...

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History had been divided into the opposing forces of the oppressed and the oppressor, the bourgeois being the upper middle class oppressor and the proletariat being the oppressed industrial working class. ... The revolutions of 1789 and 1830 made the French capital a natural place to develop his theory on class struggles. It was here that Marx could observe a revolution by the working class against an oppressive elite group. ... After the Manifesto appeared, revolutions occurred in France and Germany, and the Belgian government, fearful of a revolution there, banished Marx. ... Many feel t...

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Therefore, the only way in which Italy would change politically was in the form of a revolution. ... Revolution? ... The alternatives to the system and candidates for revolution were rising up and gaining support. ... The industrial reforms had centralised workers who also had organisation in the form of the PSI- the Socialist Party. ... Socialists saw the revolution in Russia and were inspired by it. ...

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The bourgeoisie developed from the old feudal society with the increase of commerce, navigation, and industry that the discovery of America, and the industrial revolution caused. ... Coming out of the feudal age, and into the new industrial age the working man was redefined. ... Eventually they will get tired of their oppression, and then there will be a massive revolution followed by the dictatorship of the proletariat or communism. This revolution will bring about a new classless society. ... One of the consequences of this revolution will be the abolition of private property. ...

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The demise of feudalism in response to the French Revolution brought on a simplification of class antagonism, dividing society into only two classes: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. ... As industrialization occurred it was the Bourgeoisie (Capitalists) who were leaders in economic revolutions. ... At the time the Communist Manifesto was first published in 1848 revolutions were beginning to erupt in Europe. ... And that cultural revolutions were really the product of deeper economic issues expressed the class antagonisms. ... In retrospective though, Lancashire was merely an early stage of capit...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... Under capitalism two new classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are formed where the factory owners and merchants exploit the industrial workers. ... Given Lenin's passionate desire for revolution and to implement socialism it may be argued that at the time Lenin and other Bolsheviks believed that they were establishing socialism. ... Pipes argues that "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious a...

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According to Marx, the French Revolution was the most significant instance of this form of bourgeois independence. ... (pg. 484) "We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy." ... The British proletariats were not interested in Marx's full-scale revolution, but desired a system promoting their needs. This social change introduced laws prohibiting the bourgeoisie from forcing the proletariat class to work in such poor conditions as during the Industrial Revolution. ...

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Socialism requires a revolution with three main stages: firstly, the emergence of a workers' movement committed to socialist revolution, secondly the achievement of political power and the expropriation of the capitalists and thirdly a period during which workers learn how to be owners and rulers and cast off the psychological and ideological dross of the past. ... Only for a very short time could people, think of refashioning the foundations of Marx's theory under the influence of the 'industrial boom' and prosperity. ... Fabians disagree with Marx over the point of revo...

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It is evident that Wells views the origins of the Morlocks' revolution are a result of Karl Marx's theory of "class consciousness" in Communism. ... The working class [Morlocks] saw itself as oppressed by the aristocracy [Elois], became conscious of its class, and bonded together to overthrow the ruling class; the reader can see their revolution as a form of Marxist evolution (Marx 369).  ... He suggests to his Victorian audience that it look at its own time, one in which the industrial revolution has further divided the classes. ...

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During the Revolution of 1848, both men more than expounded the main principles of the kind of socialism they desired, by publishing their own newspaper called Neue Rheinische Zeitung. They used the Revolution that was taking place as an opportunity to "demonstrate their flexibility as revolutionary tacticians with the aim of turning the revolution into a communist victory- (Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 6 pg. 124). With Marx as chief editor, this newspaper educated the masses and roused them to fight the counter-revolution. ... Unbeknownst to everyone else, Friedrich Engels wrote Herr Eug...

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Popov, 2007) argue that the transformation of these two countries was caused by the adverse supply shock that resulted from deregulation of prices and change in relative price ratios that created the need for reallocation of resources in order to correct the industrial structure inherited from centrally planned economy. The end of Cultural Revolution in China in 1976 revived the two competing forces of institutional centralization and accelerated growth, which in contrast requires decentralization (Riskin, 1987). ... China was impoverished by the Cultural Revolution, while the Vietnamese econo...

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Marx thought that this unequal division of wealth would sooner or later lead to a class revolution. While Marx's theory about class revolution has failed, the essential problem still exists. ... Paragraph #6: Conclusion Distribution of wealth in America has been uneven since the industrial revolution. ...

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All men have to work, and establishment of industrial armies. ... When learning in school, you also learn about industrial production. ... If the left-wing had a revolution and won, Ted Turner would lose a lot of money because of heavy income taxes and having to pay workers who did not even work for him anymore, and I"m sure he is not for that. ...

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Wilson declared: "We are redefining and we are restating our [new] socialism in the terms of the scientific revolution the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry" (May P 437). ... Changing the emphasis of government intervention so that it deals with education, training and infrastructure and not things like industrial intervention or tax and spend. 3. ...

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After the real war ended in 1918, the ideological war, turned against conscientious objectors and other radical minorities such as Wobblies, who were members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and also Socialists. ... These Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. ... Nationalist Americans called for the stop of the Bolshevik Revolution that was taking place in America. ...

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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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Proudhon's part in the second French revolution, particularly his writings, had a great effect on the some noteworthy thinkers of his day, including Karl Max. ... Author Friedrich Engels claims the decentralization advocated by most anarchists would destroy the modern industrial civilization. ...

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America has come a long way since its Independence. Throughout her history she has gone through a number of changes. One of these periods in which number of reforms took place was the during the period between 1870- 1914 five political parties dominated the American politics of that time. These par...

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