It is the best form of government to relieve class distinctions and prevent future revolutions because the proletariat rules society. ... Marxism is based on production for the needs of the many and not the profit of the few; a system that replaces chaos and anarchy with harmonious planning; that replaces the rule of a minority of wealthy parasites with the rule of the majority who produce all the wealth of society. ...

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First we should not overlook the fact that the majority of Chinese population, especially the peasant and the working class, are being rather politically indifferent. ... Similarly, in the April 2 Incident in 1994, the protesting peasants were not really ideologically attacking the communist rule . ... To conclude, the majority of Chinese population the working class and peasants are relatively politically indifferent. ... Otherwise it will lose legitimacy to rule the nation. ... In its first three decades of rule, CCP had tired to eliminate the feudal and reactionary Confucian influence in Ch...

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The Rule of Capitalism, "You have to invest." ... People will be accustoms to rules of social life. The elementary rule of social life is, "Be Nice," and that is the "Golden Rule." ... Those are the "Christian Golden Rule" in all schoolbooks. ... The "Procedure" is Direct Democracy (Workers Democracy), discussion and debate, where the majority rules and everyone has say. ...

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Demonstrators took the opportunity to set up their own Provisional Government, forcing Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate his thrown and ending centuries of Romanov rule. ... Often, revolutionaries are too radical for the majority and their success depends on their ability to change. ... Yet many of the Bolshevik policies skewed the lines between socialism and authoritarian rule. ... Instead, those who succeed in gaining power must make concessions to please the majority. ... The Bolsheviks wished for a true communist Russia, but often it was unclear whether they were Marxists or authoritarians ru...

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Marxists perceive a capitalist society is being ruled by the economy. The minority, the ruling class or 'bourgeoisie' rule the majority, namely the workers or 'proletariat'. The bourgeoisie have the wealth and the power to rule whereas the proletarians are capitalized on, hence, not treated fairly. ... In agreement with the Marxist philosophy that the masses should control the means of production, the Manley administration set out to owning majority of the shares in the transport system, as well as the electricity and telephone companies. ...

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In this excerpt, Marx and Engels attempt to explain the evils of the "Bourgeoisie's- power, and how the centralization of industry, capital, and consequentially political organization around this ruling class does nothing more than suppress the majority of the workers. ... However, due to the current distribution of wealth and control, they have become faceless drones, slaves to the few who rule their lives. ...

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In the 19th century Vietnam was under French rule and exploited for its cheap labor and rich lands. While about landlords and colonialists owned vast amounts of the best land, half the peasant majority had none, and the rest owned a small amount. ...

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The Bolshevik party quickly changed from a small, irrelevant party to a highly disciplined party that was successful in gaining support from these people which resulted in an eventual majority in the Petrograd Soviet in a few short months. Lenin knew that the majority of the Russian population was peasants and used their darkening situation as the Bolsheviks basis for revolution. ... This, too, contributed to the sudden majority the Bolsheviks achieved at the congress of soviets in November of 1917, which gave Lenin new control of the government. ... Second, the Bolsheviks promise of a new ...

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These conditions are the realization of people in working according to their ability and their needs and the observation of the simple rules of social cooperation. ... Without class divisions, there will be no one class that rules the means of production, the essential tool used to exploit the lower class. ... Lenin discusses the system of democracy as a state, since it "recognizes the subordination of the minority to the majority" classes (238). ... In the end, when the bourgeoisie is obliterated, all of society will be ruled by one class: the proletariat. ... By referring to this rule,...

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The proletariat in most western European countries consisted of a majority of the population, whereas, the proletariat in Russia was a minority of the population and the peasantry was the majority. ... Lenin believed that the bourgeois class was a minority in Russia and that the proletariat class was a majority. As a result, the bourgeoisie would prove too weak to resist the proletariat majority and there would be no need for a fully developed stage of capitalism. ... The idea of a "democratic dictatorship- was justified because it represented the majority and was committed to removing the ru...

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The totalitarian form of "mob boss" rule in China has got to go. ... The president is elected by a majority vote for a seven-year term. The prime minister is nominated by the National Assembly majority and appointed by the President. ...

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Political Background Current records show that the first form of government in China was of dynastic rule, starting with the Shang dynasty of 1700 BC. ... These two people belong to differing classes and there is no way the government can appease them, however a democratic system would bring into a sense of what the majority is looking for. The majority may not please the losing faction of a certain issue, however the attention would be diverted onto the people who elected the official(s). ... Revolting or even pushing for the government to change is very difficult for most urban middle class...

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Among this group of intellectuals, the majority of whom were ideally humanitarian and democratic, there were also people who were politically radical and even revolutionary. ... As was the beginning of the Communist rule in Russia. ... Also, one of the seven rules of Animalism was that no animal shall kill another animal. ... This was what they had revolted to abolish, the rule and influence of humans. ... In this case it was the totalitarian rule of farmers overworking and underfeeding the work animals. ...

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A French philosopher once said that the greatest tyranny of democracy was when the minority ruled the majority. ... Capitalism rules the nation. The upper class bosses rule what goes on in the peasants lives. ... Capitalism rules in the stockyards of Chicago. ... The upper class ruled over them. ...

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In fact, in US the notion of majority classifying themselves as "middle class," is common regardless of income levels attached to them. In the Unites States, working class people are by far the majority of the population. ... Class divisions even extend to foreign affairs, affecting the rules of international trade and investment, the structure of alliances, definitions of friend and foe, and the decision to make war (Zweig 2004, 10). ... Race/ethnicity is also looked as social outcast because of minimal influence in social connectivity with the majority residents. ...

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Inner party rule decision making are based on the principle of democratic centralism. ... The vast majority of officials in political structures are Communist Party members in the hierarchy of basic-level party organizations. ... Rule by Law: the principle of "rule of law" is the protection of individual rights by limitation on arbitrary state power, but it doesn't make sense in traditional communist ideology because law is a weapon of the state to use in exercising dictatorship. ... Legal Reforms: started in 1978 to investigate the issue around the Cultural Revolution were a hi...

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It forces the individual, in so far as he is involved in the system of market relationships, to conform to capitalistic rules of action."... One thing to also keep in mind when considering whether capitalism will eventually fall is the fact that the majority of people are afraid of change. And never before in history have the majority of the people been more comfortable, with respect to their survival, than in today's modern capitalist society. ... In the past societies, for example the feudal societies and slave societies, the majority of people had to daily struggle and work in order ...

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This is because once in power, the party or group that now rules has to quickly move to secure the power they now hold, because if they are left vulnerable, another overthrow is very likely. ... These two men, leaders of fascist Nazi Germany and Communist China respectively, both sought to make sure that within the borders of their nations, every citizen followed their rule. ... The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the KPD (Communist Party) were two opposition groups in Germany that had the majority of the support of the working class, who made up 45% of the population. ... This education ...

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Also, the majority of teaching is done from a textbook. ... The level of classroom control in a middle-income-level school is very much regulated by rules set by the town, school, and community. Also, these rules tend to be somewhat strictly enforced, but may vary from teacher to teacher. ... Majority of families belong to capitalist class. ...

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This continues to happen because people are more concerned with crimes like burglary or vandalism because it affects the majority of people, and tax evasion does not affect the nation as a whole as vandalism does, with buildings and transport facilities being de-faced. ... Elderly - people who are elderly often get left out of studies because the majority of them do not work, this often is hard then to place them in a social class, and this then discriminates elderly people even more. ... However the view that "The ruling class both makes the law and enforces it, in its own interest" i...

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Stalin's oppressive rule was legitimized by the "imprimatur of Lenin's creation and succession." ... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. ... The Party would never forget that it had taken power as an enlightened minority acting on behalf of a majority ignorant of its best interests. ...

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Stalin's oppressive rule was legitimized by the "imprimatur of Lenin's creation and succession." ... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. ... The Party would never forget that it had taken power as an enlightened minority acting on behalf of a majority ignorant of its best interests. ...

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Nations were then formed and ruled by the powerful and wealthy bourgeois, a new system and over-production began. ... Capitalism proved to be a valuable structure to a social system driven by a powerful few in control of a powerless majority. ...

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By the start of 1917, the Tsarist rule was confronting intense issues, mainly due to his naive autocracy, "The fundamental cause of the Russian revolution was the incompatibility of the Tsarist state, with the demands of the modern state"1; the peasants were requesting land; the proletariat needed higher wages and better working conditions; the bourgeoisie needed political changes to make Russia a genuine majority ruled government; and each of the three classes were demanding an end to the war. ...

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James Madison presented the solution to this dilemma: " Take in a greater variety of parties and interest and you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens - (J Madison in Lowi & Ginsberg American Government 307) According to Madison, a good constitution encourages multitudes of interests so that no single interest can tyrannize the others. ... To rule their society, elites employ a variety of techniques. These include dominating the economy, using police and military force, manipulating the educational system and the...

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