Ultimately, it is the nation-state that guarantees the ownership of private property and the means of production and provides support for disciplining the work force. ... The state plays an essential role in creating conditions that inhibit or promote consumption, controls legislation, controls money supply, initiates economic, political, and social policies to attract capital, and controls the legitimate use of force. ... Here his life was regimented to fill the needs of a highly organized productive system sensitively attuned to the driving forces of competitive free enterprise. ...

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Carl Marx, 1818-1883 was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary. He was mostly ignored by scholars during his lifetime, however, after his death, his social, economic and political ideas gained acceptance in the Socialist Movement. (Kreis) Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895 was a Ge...

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Marx argues that class struggles are the driving force that keeps the world thriving. ... " (CM, p31-32) Therefore, Marx and Engels' way to end the exploitation they saw through industrial capitalism is for the proletarians to rise up and revolt against the opposing force of the tyrannical factory-owners and emerge as the dominant-ruling class. ...

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The aim of this essay is to evaluate the importance of the ideological differences in the outbreak of the Cold War. The Cold War begins with the end of the Second World War (WWII) in 1945, when the world was left crippled and needed to be reconstructed in some manner. For this, it depended on the tw...

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STUDIES OF CHANGE: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China was the result of years of discontent among China's people at their outdated government and society, but what were the efficacious, particular motives and conditions for cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung to brin...

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Another extremely significant victory for Australia came in the Battle for the Kokoda trail, in which a seriously outnumbered Australian force took on the advancing Japanese forces from the north coast on their quest for taking over Port Moresby. The Australians advanced from the south coast and succeeded in stopping their advance and eventually driving them back and off the island of Papua New Guinea. ... An example of this was the peacekeeping force Australia sent to East Timor when they wanted to become independent from Indonesia, and there was conflict. ...

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Current core model of Korean Air force is KF-16, 146 planes. ... Utility of air force was 26% and support of media was 4.2%. ... Reporter asked another question about what is driving resistance to the coalition force and he answered as "I think there is in Europe an old-fashioned, lingering resentment of American power. ...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal o...

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Comparative Economic Systems It would be extremely easy to state that economics is an area of study that seeks efficient use of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants and that economic systems simply refer to the outcomes of economic activities, which are influenced by social, natural and political settings. However, it is clear that economics goes far beyond utilizing resources or levels of development and by comparing different economic systems one can analyze their importance and influence on other sectors of society. Apart from affecting other sectors, an economic system is also ...

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