Louis Althusser published "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Towards an Investigation as an effort to understand anti-capitalistic uprising that was happing in his time. The issue Althusser is concentrating is how the working class fought off to transform the corrupt-abusive-ruling capitalist rule into a communist rule. To understand the problem he uses the method of Ideology, mixing and comparing one ideology to another. ... The other set, the ISA (family, church, schools and etc.), is defined as a role player in sustaining the capitalist structure. ... The ISA works by ...

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Ideological struggle between Capitalism and Communism was a definitive fact that stimulated rivalry: the USSR wanted to shape the future and reconstruction of the East in relation to the communist ideology; while the USA wanted post-WWII world scenario to be shaped by capitalist ideas. ... Secretary of State), define the Cold War as a battle between the superpowers for supremacy in ways of thinking. ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR i...

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For these people as well as all the other European socialist and communist parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, eventually became one of the principal programmatic statements. ... The role of the "Manifesto" is shown as promoting the communist beliefs. ... The book goes on to link the proletarians with their ideology, communism. ... The core if the communists is defined by a single sentence, "the abolition of private property" (Mendal 26). ... Finally, the chapter ends with ten points, ten command...

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However the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never clearly indicates that if it intends to loosen control for the potential reforms. ... Similarly, in the April 2 Incident in 1994, the protesting peasants were not really ideologically attacking the communist rule . ... Although as the minority of Chinese population, the intellectual group failed to win much concession from the current communist regime. ... Then CCP intentionally confounds the concepts of a culturally-defined nation and a politically-defined nation, to lead the people to believe that they actually have nationalistic sentime...

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Party structures of Communist party state are defined by Design Features: Chinese political system borrowed organizational design from Soviet Union by Lenin political legitimacy. ... The description of Communist party leadership is set forth in the constitution. ... Communist Party Leadership: the Communist Party exercises direct leadership over government and legislative functions in a variety of ways. ... First, membership in the Communist Party is coming from the elite status. ... Rule by Law: the principle of "rule of law" is the protection of individual rights by limitation on a...

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As well as his ideologies of false consciousness, his belief of capitalisms need for reform, inequality and exploitation of the working classes could be addressed and abolished, that society is not defined by that of natural rights, but defined by the nature of our class status. ... Alienation only makes the bourgeois become more powerful and through their ideology of false-consciousness they keep the workers from revolting by leading them to believe that the bourgeois in fact are good and only want the best for the workers. ... This, as well as other ideals, is detailed in The Co...

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It was said that a nuclear showdown with the former communist Soviet Union was inevitable. ... Another crisis is currently present, the nuclear showdown with another communist nation, North Korea. ... Marxism helps create and define a branch of philosophy called dialectical materialism. ... Literature does not reflect either the economic base or other ideology, but it works on existing ideologies and transforms them, giving these ideologies new shape and structure (Martin 77). ... Moreover, man wants more and more power, and thats why Marxists, or Communists regimes always become authorita...

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Citizens were watched, spied on and were basically at the mercy of the high-ranking communist officials. ... First, Stalinism can be defined as "Communist Party rule, Marxist- Taylor 2 Leninist ideology, rampant bureaucracy, leader cults, state control over production and distribution police surveillance, terror- (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 3). ... The Communist party, among other things, demanded loyalty. ... Personally, I think Fitzpatrick did an excellent job of portraying the realities of the communist society and the hardships for Russians in the 1930s. ... The famine, the short...

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Background Marxism is a series of economical, social and political based ideologies that oppose capitalism. As defined by the communist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.... "5 Marx acquired the need for religion, but regarded religion as a subtle part to his ideologies. ... Taken by the government, the communists were behind this, as my father would always say. ... In the interview with my grandmother, she viewed the social conditions of this time period to be ridiculous and ironically unfair opposing Marx's actual ideology. ...

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Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. ... One is that it was an attempt to put communist ideology into practice, a view that originated in the nineteen twenties. ... The party's ideology was based on the ideas of Karl Marx. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. ... It seems that they were desperate to create what could call a communist state. ...

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However, the formation of the "New Soviet" figure was not simple ideology. ... Although they represent heroic communist figures, Gleb and Dasha Chumalov, are not simply mouthpieces of the communist ideology; they are realistic and represent the truthful inner conflict a typical Soviet citizen was experiencing at the time. ... Furthermore, he has the motivation and the right ideology to inspire others. ... Alongside the image of a strong, communist worker is that of a typical husband desiring the comforting love of his wife. ... The result is that her hardened exterior and newfound de...

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In this paper I plan to compare and contrast the ideologies behind the political and economic practice of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. ... Stalin altered the principle issue of worldwide Socialist revolution, a very important point regarding Lenin, to a more region defined idea of: "Socialism in One Country." ... In 1935 Stalin published A Short Course: The History of the All-Union Communist Party. ... The next section is an examination of these ideologies put into practice. ... War Communisms shelf life only lasted to the end of the civil war when Lenin went agai...

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Commodities are defined as an object outside of us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another (Miliband, R. 243). ... Marx defined value as "consumed labor time", and stated that "all goods, considered economically, are only the product of labor and cost nothing except labor"(Parekh, B. 386). ... Not long afterward, Communist Russia was attacked by Britain, America and France, who wanted to get rid of the communist government. ... This fear of Communist ruined the lives of many American's. ... My policy is to overcome the communists." ...

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Orwell intended to criticize the communist regime he saw sweeping through Russia and spreading to Europe and even the United States. Though he agreed with many Marxist values, Orwell couldn't really accept the communist understanding of socialism because he saw many similarities between the communist governments and the previous tzarist regimes in old Russia. ... In Animal farm Orwell uses his symbolic farm to represent the communist system. ... As a comparable to Leon Trotsky, Snowball starts as a enthusiastic advocator of ideology, who put every ounce of his heart and soul into the at...

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Weber Karl Marx and Max Weber, both social scientists, devoted much of their work to the defining of capitalism through understanding its creation, causes, workings, and destiny. ... He believed that each phase of history was defined by and ultimately driven by the dominate mode of production of the time. ... This revolution is caused by the dramatic consolidation of wealth by the bourgeoisie, which causes the exploitation of the working class. " A forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions" will take place and a new Communist state will be instated (Marx, 500). The main principle ...

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The major works that will be discussed herein are: Capital, Volumes I, II and III, and The Communist Manifesto. ... Throughout his vast bibliography, the most major works of Marx include: Capital, Volumes I, II and III, and the most influential, The Communist Manifesto. ... Unlike the previous three works described, the focus of The Communist Manifesto is much more on the political and social issues that arise due to capitalism running amok. Communism itself is defined as "a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products ...

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As quoted in Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. ... For example, Marx defined two classes in a capitalist system, the capitalists and the proletariats. As discussed in the quote from the Manifesto of the Communist Party, classes existed in opposition to each other throughout history. ... This early, primitive communist tribe is described as migratory, consuming the natural resources of each area before moving onto another. ... According to Marx, this defines a new epoch, called the "ancient world." ...

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In an orderly, well-defined rhythm, a mysterious force drives everything forward to ever-greater perfection. ... As a communist, Marx believed that the working class (the proletariat) would eventually be the emancipator of society. ... During this period, he continued to work on his book, The German Ideology. ...

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According to Stephens et al. (1998, p. 205), "The argument that education in capitalist society is a tool of ruling-class ideology underpins Marxist theory." ... Any notion that intelligence alone determines the success of an individual would be challenged by marxism by claiming that it is purely an ideological belief. ... Further, as noted by Stephens et al., a number of feminists champion the idea that men should be "...kept out of women's affairs" and are "...suspicious of so-called science, which they regard as male-defined and male-benefiting knowledge" (1998, p. 156). ...

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But none so them could define the exact meaning. ... But in this way, the society isn't prepared for the socialism, especially the economy basic and the ideology. ... Take the USSR for example, the Communist Party obtained their strength and power by the revolutionary path, subverting the political, social, and other orders in the old era. ...

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Critically Examine the Pluralist Theory of the State Before we can examine the pluralist theory of the state it is first necessary to define exactly what is meant by the term state'. ... There are many definitions of what exactly makes up the state, Ralph Miliband in his book, "The State in Capitalist Society" defines the state as consisting of the following institutions: Parliamentary assemblies local government police military judiciary civil service (bureaucracy) cabinet - leading politicians Most scholars and politicians would agree with this definition of the st...

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Definitions The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines change as to become or to make something become different. The same dictionary goes on to further define change as a process or a result of something or someone becoming different. ... Light, D. et al (1982:550) defined social change as variations overtime, in the behaviour patterns, culture, and structure of society. Lenski, G. et al (1987:61) defines social and cultural change in two aspects one involving the addition of new elements to the existing system while the other form will involve elimination of older elements where ...

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The reality of contemporary liberalism, as it is inspired by socialism, clearly fuses with the definition of this philosophical genius, if indeed it could be summarized as a general ideology. Early Enlightment philosophy provided the guiding light to the liberalistic evolution of freedom from restriction, to freedom in the sense of opportunity as a socialistic ideology. ... The highest ideology of nineteenth century liberalism was that economically, maximum freedom would only come as the result of the limited power of government. ...

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