However, by examining these causes such as nationalism, we should not underestimate other factors such as inequality and class conflicts which can play significant roles in forming state violence. ... So it is very crucial to ask the question: "How do conflicts derived from nationalistic ideologies arise from complex combinations of ethnic strength, class, inequality, political opportunity, mobilization processes or international interventions?" ... It feeds on intolerance by making race, ethnicity, religion, language, class, doctrine, and nationality, decisive in order to change the order. ...

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Humanism thus derives the goals of life from human need and interest rather than from theological or ideological abstractions, and asserts that humanity must take responsibility for its own destiny. ... With the political changes that occurred from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance one can tell that the progression of humanism pushed the old ways of the Feudal System out and made way for a more flexible and liberal class system. ...

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The tension and interdependence of the concepts of the empire and nation state in 19th century Europe was founded on the basis of the power struggle and division of ideas, being both nationalistic and imperial, over what Europe represents and what it should aspire to become. Differences in ideology ...

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Although it was designed to make the state a liberal parliamentary democracy in constitution, it was, however, not in the mainstream of German politics since it primarily represented the working class. ... Political authority is derived from the people. ... The middle classes were possibly the hardest hit because they were more likely to have savings wh...

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Liberal parliamentarians had no problem with the idea of making the Prussian army bigger, however, as liberals, they hoped that the Prussian officer corps would eventually come to be dominated by the men of the Prussian middle class, rather than by the class of noble Junker land owners who traditionally made up the body of Prussian officers. King Wilhelm I and his minister of war rejected this liberal attempt to change the class composition of the Prussian officer corps, and the parliament threatened to veto the military budget. ... Wilhelm held out until 1862, at the moment when his minister...

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