In the article "Manifesto of the Communist Party," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels says about the Bourgeois and Proletarians for all epochs. ... Marx defined communism as an economic system characterized by common ownership of all economic resources. ... People would contribute according to their abilities and receive according to their needs (Marx and Engels). "Ideal" socialism has three distinctive features as Marx says: (1) public ownership of the means of production, (2) pursuit of collective goals, and (3) centralized decision making. ...

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In the article "Manifesto of the Communist Party," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels says about the Bourgeois and Proletarians for all epochs. ... Marx defined communism as an economic system characterized by common ownership of all economic resources. ... People would contribute according to their abilities and receive according to their needs (Marx and Engels). "Ideal" socialism has three distinctive features as Marx says: (1) public ownership of the means of production, (2) pursuit of collective goals, and (3) centralized decision making. ...

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Old Major's speech alludes to Karl Marx's surplus theory of communism. ... Karl Marx introduced the theory of communism which inspired the Russians to overthrow Czar Nicholas, a leader who watched his country indulge in poverty. ... Both speeches revolved around the same idea of "rebellion," however, hypothetically speaking, it would be much more interesting to listen to Old Major's speech as it was more clear, engaging and fitted in with the storyline nicely; as opposed to what would've been a long but sparking speech from Karl Marx. ...

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Gorbachev's popularity grew in the West as he became known as a brave reformer and supporter of peace. His popularity at home plummeted though as the problems of the Soviet Union increased. His attempts to save Soviet communism became more difficult as all the former Soviet Eastern Bloc countries b...

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Old Major represents Karl Marx who instigates the Communist manifesto. In the story, Old Major which instigates rebellion of Animalism with the manifesto "the life of an animal is misery and slavery" (Chapter 1, page 3) this is the same to the manifesto in with Karl Marx uses to instigate Communism. ...

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Another fully communist person in the Novel is Old Major, old Major represents Karl Marx who gave the Russian people the idea of communism, he did this through his remarkable speeches to the Russian people. ...

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The ideas of Communism first started with German Philosopher Karl Marx. ... One man that followed the same ideas of Marx is Vladimir Lenin, key leader of the Bolshevik party in Russia around the early 1900s. ... Lenin had finally come into power and immediately creating his new form of government using the ideas of Karl Marx as a basis. ...

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THEME AND RELEVANCE THEME: The Animal Farm concerns with the Revolution for an ideal, and about how the ideal is violated until it disappears altogether from the new society after the revolution. It tells how the animal captured the Manor Farm from its unconcerned master, change its name to Ani...

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Lenin and the Russian revolution Introduction The Bolsheviks started off, in 1903, as the minority of the Social Democratic Party. As all anti-tsarist groups the party was illegal. The party was based upon the beliefs of Karl Marx, ...

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Old Major could be easily matched with Karl Marx, who is responsible for the "spark" of revolution. ... As mentioned with the allegory, Old Major is the character of Karl Marx. ... Marx wrote books that stated that the only way to establish justice was for the workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. ...

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Manor Farm represents Russia, and Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the prominent figures of the Russian Revolution namely Marx/ Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin respectively. ... This was an underground group of people that followed the communist writings of Karl Marx and was led by Lenin. ...

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Old Major was the inventor of Animalism and could be compared to the inventors of Communism named Marx and Lenin. Old Major and Karl Marx died before the Revolutions began, but they were still responsible for getting the rebellions started. ...

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The party's ideology was based on the ideas of Karl Marx. ... Marx also believed that such political change was inevitable and that there are various stages driven by socio-economic forces. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. However, the actions of the Bolshevik party during the war, and certainly after, did not seem to be the actions of a party that followed Karl Marx's work so closely. ...

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Originally, Karl Marx invented the theory of Communism. ... Marx's intention was to establish a classless society in which all property would be state owned. ... Marx thought that the ruthless government of Tsar had already spoiled the workers and sooner or later there would be revolution. ... However, Lenin and Stalin modified Marx's theory of Communism, which altered the actually meaning of the theory. ... This was different from Marx's originally intention to have a state rule without ruler. ...

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The theme of Animal Farm is not difficult to understand. On a simple level of reading the book seems to be telling an animal story whereby a group of farmyard animals decide to overthrow their owner and consequently take charge of the farm. However, George Orwell used Animal Farm as a way of portray...

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The Pattern of Revolution Stage 1 There were few people who spoke out and shared their thoughts on revolution. However among the few were three marvelous and some strange men. One of the three was Lenin; who was a Marxist; in other words believed in Communism. Lenin later goes on to ...

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In U.S.S.R because of communist regime there was no unemployment and also there was free education,health care and transportation.Maybe the majority of people think that a country's citizens which are having these privileges cannot be in poverty.But in U.S.S.R they were.Being unemployment was forbidden and State was giving jobs,that had no meaning and did nothing,to citizens because of laws.This jobs were a burden to economy,and from these jobs State couldn't get any production or profit.Also as told by Maynard in his article,Karl Marx's economic policy,also ...

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Old Major-s role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic Socialism. ... Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. ...

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Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic Socialism. ... Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. ...

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The most appealing of these ideas was Marxism, named for Karl Marx who was a 19th- century German thinker. ... Marx claimed that the triumph of the middle class, or bourgeoisie, inevitably led to the rise of a proletariat, or laboring class. ... In this utopian setting, all class distinctions would be abolished as would national governments and religion which Marx regarded as tools of bourgeois oppression on the working class. Carl Marx created The Communist Manifesto which which called for a huge revolt. It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist r...

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Lenin immediately began his attempt to construct a socialist government in Russia according to the philosophy of Karl Marx. ... Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown by the revolution and later executed by the Bolsheviks; Old Major is Marx and perhaps Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the proletariat (the urban industrial worker)-and more remotely the Chinese revolutionaries of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion; Napoleon stands for Joseph Stalin; Snowball is Leon Trotsky; Mollie is at heart a White Russian with little sympathy for Bolshevik aims; the raven Moses stands for the Russia...

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Joseph Stalin and his influence on USSR Joseph Vissarionovich Dzshugashvilli, also known as Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the Union of Soviet Republics from 1929 to 1953. Joseph Stalin was next in line to further improve USSR. Stalin was a very direct but paranoid person and dictator. He kille...

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Introduction "Animal Farm" is a symbolical political satire in which animals take the place of humans. These animals can talk and are just as intelligent as humans. They learn to read and each type of animal a different aspect of humanity. (Ex.: Pigs- Politicians; Horses- Laborers; Sheep- Gullible P...

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This was written before Karl Marx's Das Capital or the 'Communist Manifesto' and long before the Bolshevik Revolution, which leads us to think that the conflict between these countries is not really about ideology. ...

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Karl Marx, who founded the idea of communism, had a theory that socioeconomic systems are holding human societies' progress through class struggle: a conflict between ownership class and laboring class. ...

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