... , the leader who shaped and controlled the government of the USSR for more than a quarter of a century after Lenin's death (Pious) Stalinism, of course, in no way resembled the Communist utopia that Marx and Engels had envisioned. Three decades after Stalin's death, the USSR was still ruled by command, not consent; it was a society administered in authoritarian fashion by a managerial bureaucracy ... ...
... of society. Declaring that human history was determined by class warfare, Marx predicted a worldwide revolution initiated by the victims of industrialization, the urban working class. This revolution would lead to a utopia free of all class distinctions, and free of the oppressive forces of national government and religion. Disastrous consequences ensued when Stalin and his fellow Bolsheviks attempted to put this ideology ... ...
... Adolf Hitler, one of histories most destructive and vicious men. Over 6 million Jews and up to 5 million others were simply eradicated to achieve what Hitler believed would be an Aryan utopia, free of the inferior. Jews were the primary target of the holocaust but the nazis targeted countless other minority groups including the aged, the mentally and physically handicapped and any ... ...
