Nationalism has always formed a part of the official discourse of the Chinese Communist Party. Stemmed from its ideology linked with the Communist International, it preferred for a long time the idea of "patriotism" (aiguozhuyi). ...
As many questions as we raise, the fact that Gorbachev turned out to be at the right position, in the right time, changing the course of history by crossing out the Communist Regime, still remains undeniable. ... Archie Brown notes that "Gorbachev has the political will to make significant innovations in both Soviet domestic and foreign policy"1, and German biographer Christian Shmidt-Hauer states that "the new leader is ambitious for power- not power for its own sake, but power to improve his own society"2.3 Anyhow, his personal attractive qualities and his remarkable p...
In spite of China's economic liberalization, its Communist party-state retains the essential organization structure that the Chinese communist party adopted from the Soviet Union. Although the reformist leaders in China have embraced the concept of market freedom rejecting Marx's idea, their decision to retain a closed political structure is very much in accord with Lenin's vision of the communist part-state. ... However, it does have a Communist party (Chinese Communist Party) which has been ruling the country for over 2000 years. Although China has opened up new avenues for ec...
Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a fervent Communist idealism . ...
For example, French Anarcho-communist author Daniel Guerin outlines the manner in which anarchism would organize the workplace by the form of worker self-management known as syndicalism. Similarly, American Anarcho-communist author Eddie Conlon stresses the potential of decentralized universal healthcare as shown in revolutionary Spain based upon mutual concern without the hand of privatization and organized based through a system of communal federations from the bottom up. ...
Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a fervent Communist idealism . ...
It provided economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, which were in a state of devastation after World War II, and in fear that these weakened countries may succumb to communist pressure or turn to communism as it offered a solution to their problems, the Truman Doctrine was introduced to offer help. ... In the case of Greece, the Greek Civil War and the involvement of the Greek communists made the US fear Soviet expansionism. ...
Edgar Hoover during the late 1950s and early 1960s due to the fact that he was formerly tied to the Communist movement. ... There were some concerns from African-American leaders that Rustin's sexuality and his ties to the Communists would undermine the goals of the Civil Rights Movement in which Adam Clayton Powell had a role in as a member of the SCLC's board of directors that forced Rustin to resign from the SCLC in 1960 after Powell had threatened to bring up Rustin's Pasadena arrest in Congress and also because Powell was concerned that his power in the Black community woul...
Furthermore, under the organization of the poem Niemöller expresses the danger of total domination by 1,4,7 lines; "First they came for the Jews/ Communists/ trade unionists". ... In other words, to make the people to believe that it is rational to think that certain type of groups are enemies because they are alienated, so it is justify any atrocities against "them" (Jews, communists, trade unionists). ... This indifferent attitude portrays the initial stage of totalitarianism because his apathy enhance the struggle of the "enemies" (Jews, communists, trade...
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the democratic performance of three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- of the post-communist region of Central Eastern Europe, to lay the ground for further research into why their performance scores where it does on our scale. ... The three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- all have very similar historical backgrounds having some sort of democratic institutions present previous to the establishment of the communist rule in the region. ... Nevertheless, corruption and the lack of political agencies' autonomy ...
In 1920, the country of Japan was beginning to show outward signs that it was embarking on a path towards political modernization and a model of relatively liberal democracy. Indeed, the previous decade had seen the nation's masses call for a 'constitutional government' and, by the beginning of the 1920's, elected politicians had come in from the peripheries to wield considerable, actual power. Rapid industrialization developed both a moneyed bourgeoisie and an urban proletariat, and trade unions and political organizations had begun to spring up at a greatly accelerate...
Human rights are defined as rights that are afforded to all human beings universally on the basis of their common humanity. However the extent to which these rights are universal across all states is contentious, and determined by several unique factors, particularly culture and religion. A further ...
I. Nationalism: The university is related to nationalism in two ways: First, it is an important step towards modernization, because it produces an educated group of individuals who compose a society's professional realm and middle class. As Tito attempted to modernize the former Yugoslavia, ...
George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four describes a futuristic alternate reality where a totalitarian government tyrannises the population through constant surveillance, public mind control, propaganda and on-going overseas war. Orwell uses his novel to foreshadow and predict the s...
For instance, there are the political tensions of the PCI (Italian Communist Party), the conflict between different social classes (represented by the gaze made by Bruno and the aristocratic boy), and Italian passion for football (which emerges during the match at the end of the film). ...
Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party sought legitimacy as defenders of the revolution and then subsequently leading the people towards their goal, whether the people wanted it or not. ...
