Cunningham and Flew highlight a basic power struggle between people, the government and our media system which they recognize to have a "strong corporatist flavour" (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237). ... They view it as a non-commercial "peoples" network based in a commercial environment on modernist institutions which therefore leads to culture being formed into a commodity, allowing it to be bought and sold. ... Their perspective is contrary to Hobbes however, whose belief is that it is in fact the people who delegate power to these institutions (that is, the private, public and government ...

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Accurate answers have not been provided, and if there are – they are strongly subjective and opinion-based. What are the reasons of the collapse of an established political system - the base of the Soviet "Empire", which has managed to stay at the top for more than five decades, outlived the Second World War, and has been the Motherland to more than half of Europe? ... 6 According to a study performed by David Kotz and Fred Weir, the party-state elite, or in other words the people who hold the governmental power have contributed the most for the collapse of the regime. A group...

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Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . Because Stalin's radical goals were vicious for the populace to attain, his legitimacy was based on the credibility of his ideological authority . ... Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . ... In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gain...

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Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . Because Stalin's radical goals were vicious for the populace to attain, his legitimacy was based on the credibility of his ideological authority . ... Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . ... In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gai...

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An eminent name in Western-Liberal thought is Richard Pipes, who has participated in many anti-Marxists engagements, including hand-picking by the US government in examining weapons from the Soviet regime. ... Libertarians base their thought on the idea that 'societies and individuals function [best] when there is no economic or political exploitation.' ...

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Communism, at its most idealistic base, is a contingent of gown up responsible people that have free access to information and can therefore self govern, except for the transitional period required for the establishment of the required infrastructure. ... This is perhaps the most problematic aspect of this issue, for the solution depends on the coordination and cooperation of all major governments, regardless of political differences. ... The new government now responsible for all aspects of its citizens' lives, and eager to show its incontestable superiority, followed the trends of the t...

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While this may encourage a lack of personal sympathy and the alienation of those at the bottom of the pyramid, it can surely be argued that governments even in capitalist states take steps to regulate the actions of companies in a neoliberalist society. ... While the minimum wage today might be argued (rightly) to be insufficient, in 1959, the Terms and Conditions of Employment Act set the minimum wage at a rate which could sustain a family of one working parent and two children without falling below the poverty line (source: National Archives), showing a duty of care actually being enacted by...

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Traditionalists would argue that homosexuality is not the 'natural' way of living; whereas Interactionalists believe every i ndividual should live based on their own ideologies; whichever kind they may be. ...

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