Each step to achieving a communist society has always been a step towards becoming a totalitarian society like past and current communist countries. ... With the formation of this Communist government began the downfall of what Marx had envisioned. ... In a communist state the abuse of power has grown so that government control is necessary to the wa! ... He illustrates an amazing example of the way in which a totalitarian government that is supposedly communist is not even remotely close to what Marx had in mind. ... The flaws of the human mind have distorted it so that instead of the utopia...

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Labeling it cultural Marxism, Lind (2000) states: First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted "victims" groups that political correctness revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. ... "Marxist theory ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unfortunately, many confuse the governments of Russia and formerly China as Communist countries. The official and proper name for these governments is socialism. ... Also, the kind of democracy practiced in Utopia is not accepted in the totalitarian Soviet states. ... It is perfectly correct to call More's Utopia a communist society, but it is not to be confused or even compared with the socialist forms of government that most think of as representing communism in the modern world. ... It has crept into most governments and lands and has remained there ever since. ...

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This quote from Karl Max is an introduction to his philosophy of government and economics. ... His theories on economics and government have had immense effects on the world. ... The first revolution was in March, when the Tsar was deposed and a provisional government was set up. Then in November a political called the Bolsheviks led a further rebellion which ousted the provisional government. ... France and the US are near the center and are mostly made up of mild totalitarian and capitalism. ...

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Maurice Meisner and John Gurley both emphasize the formation of a centralized, bureaucratic government as an integral part of the First Five Year Plan (Gurley ppg. 235-236 Meisner ppg. 115-116). ... Mao successfully reorganized the Chinese government to insure that the quotas of the First Five Year Plan would be met. ... He goes into detail about the "five developments" that Mao initiated: the government organized itself so that it had different "organs" to deal with each aspect of industrialization, the party became more efficient, they had goals that inspired the populace, commenced land r...

• Word Count: 2169
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