... authoritarian rule has buttressed the current regime. 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. (O'Neil (2010) page 297) According to Dahl, the definition of public contestation and participation includes classic freedo...

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... cabinet. Nonetheless, the results made the Truman administration take notice of such a potential "disaster-, and led them into the business of intervening; politically, covertly, and overtly to effectively diminish communist and socialist ideals prior to the 1948 elections. The Truman administration felt it was imperative in protecting democracy and freedom in the western world to stop the spread of communism ... by United States officials with the belief that the enormous influence of American aid could only help a democratic Italy, and was backed by the strict warning of how a communi...

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... the reasons are for different outcomes of democratization. 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. By defining democratization in the first section ... this essay. 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 esta...

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... man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). However, in 1975, with the rise of the communist left, Cambodia experienced an era that, although would only last a mere four years, forever changed the country. The Khmer rouge movement led by Pol Pot, also known as, "Brother ... various forms of political oppression. Furthermore, while Prime Minister Hun Sen is known to have been a part of the Khmer Rouge Army, the CCP itself claims no ideological linkage to communist roots or in fact, any s...

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... industry, enough to warrant the unease and subsequent wrath of the ruling powers. 'For the first time in modern Japan, labor conflict had become a social problem of importance24.' The Japanese Communist party, for example, was formed in 1922 with the backing of the Comintern to spread the success of revolution to the society of Japan.25 Alongside the ... Communist party, groups such as the Nihon Rodo Sodomei (Japan General Federation of Labour) and Shakai Minshuto (Social Democratic Party) showed that factions in support of labour rights, reform of industrial ... ...

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... promotes human welfare by inducing popular control of society through an emphasis on the values of liberty, solidarity and egalitarianism in the structure of society itself. 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 bas...

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... assert the legitimacy of the regime it established by appealing to the end goal or the ideal which is being pursued. 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 ... ...

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... reason, which impacted into the failure of the Weimar Republic. Any chance of having a successful democratic government was undermined because of broken relations between the social democrats and left wing communist (Sparticists). Right wing parties were strong and remained in power due to the unity between them whereas the left-wing had internal issues and distrust of each other, destroying their ... ...

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... offered a counter to this dyad. The article "The Myth of the Autocratic Revival: Why Liberal Democracy Will Prevail" by Deudney and Ikenberry examines China's combination of capitalism and autocracy and notes that it does have one major advantage. The most powerful argument against a relationship for capitalism and liberal democracy is that capitalism undermines the political equality that liberal democracy is supposed ... ...

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