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. ... He claimed a scientific status for his views, so he could rely on such abstract justifications. ... This does not show conclusively that recurring historical patterns or laws do not occur, but it does challenge the accuracy of Marx's claim to scienti...

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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. ... His ideas and theories came to be known as Marxism, or scientific socialism, which constitutes one of the principals of contemporary political thought. ... Many feel that Marx had got it wrong by predicting eminent revol...

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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. ... The revisionists sinned, in the scientific sense, by superficial generalizations based on facts selected one-sidedly and without reference to the system of capitalism as a whole. ... The Fabian movement was very much a scient...

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From 1845 to 1847, Engels lived in Brussels and Paris, combining scientific work with practical activities among German workers in Brussels and Paris. ... 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 e...

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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). ...

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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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