... , contributed to a vast amount of progress in the nineteenth century. Tolerance for individualism also reinforced distrust for the state. In reflection of North American protest, European liberals persisted upon destroying the old forms of state control. Mercantilist intervention had been inefficient and corrupt, and once the concept of self-government spread to the ... in its liberalistic acceptance of socialism, was developing a more accurate comprehension of that which seventeenth century philosophy proclaimed as the natural inclination of our senses: equality. Unlike liberals, ninet...

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A spectre is hunting Europe - the spectre of communism. - Marx and Engels- Surely, almost everyone knows that communism hunted not just European but also numerous countries all over the world. Many individuals, mostly young souls were enchanted by the energies and enthusiasm of Marxist-Engels brilliant formulations on the abolition of ... capitalism (Aronson, 1995:43). The experiences of former communist countries reveal that "communism's main failure in practice comes from the failure of a centralized economy to function" (ibid). In theory, communism unlike socialism "strives for the complet...

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... part in the democracies of the pre-Christian era. The democracies of the city-states of classical Greece and of Rome during the early years of the Republic were unlike the democracies of today. They were direct democracies, in which all citizens could speak and vote in assemblies that resembled New England town meetings. Representative government was unknown ... Beginning with the first popular rebellion against monarchy in England (1642), which was brought to a climax by the execution of King Charles I, political and revolutionary action against autocratic European governments resulted i...

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... part in the democracies of the pre-Christian era. The democracies of the city-states of classical Greece and of Rome during the early years of the Republic were unlike the democracies of today. They were direct democracies, in which all citizens could speak and vote in assemblies that resembled New England town meetings. Representative government was unknown ... Beginning with the first popular rebellion against monarchy in England (1642), which was brought to a climax by the execution of King Charles I, political and revolutionary action against autocratic European governments resulted i...

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... and particularly, slaves. One of the greatest city-states was Athens. As a rule you couldn't vote in Athens unless you were a native born citizen. The Roman democracy, which was not unlike Greek democracy, granted voting rights to non-native male citizens. This shows one of the progressions of democracy through time. The Roman Stoic philosophy, which defined the human race as ... a strong movement for religious rights (Editors of Scholastic Magazine, 143). In 1642 a rebellion started in England that resulted in the execution of King Charles I. This birthed rebellion all over the Europea...

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