... their social consequence were very dramatic for the working class. A comparison between Britain's Industrial revolution and France's Industrial revolution both has very different realities and responses. Great Britain was the homeland of the industrial revolution, which began in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet the French were the unquestioned leaders in the development of socialism and working class consciousness. After 1750, ... an agricultural sector in the economy, which workers could fall back on, and their industrial cities had not been as unsanitary for their population. F...

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... something to benefit the people amid increasing social chaos, socialism looked attractive and many Marxist ideas gained popularity and support. This struggle was echoed throughout much of the world. The French Revolution was perceived as a great success for democracy. Its three key aims of liberty, equality and fraternity became desirable objectives. In the late 1960's, the concept of moral decline ... This was perhaps the most practical, common sense, ideological force amongst the popular classes. This new hegemonic voice needed popular conception of the French revolution to change. So...

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... taxes and foreign investment had to increase. Eventually, these problems with food shortages and the poor economy led to dissatisfaction of the government by the citizens, helping cause the Russian Revolution. Industrializing Russia was going to be a big problem for the urban working class, creating social problems. These factory workers experienced extremely unfair and inhumane working conditions. These workers could ... or intellectual freedoms, and no social legislation or representation in the government. These corrupt leaders did not want to modernize Russian, and were strongly again...

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... earlier, just as liberals may have got their lead from the French Revolution . However not only liberals got their ideas from the French Revolution, as Woolf states . The Socialist [second] International was formed in 1889, in honour of the centenary of the French Revolution . This is another example of Woolf's dead mind'- feeding off the French Revolution which occurred 100 years earlier, even though the ideas might have ... peace. This illustrates Woolf's theory of communal psychology- a whole group of people thinking alike which could change the political and social situation in Europe...

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... following the power vacuum left by Japanese occupation after their defeat of World War II, ICP formed a Vietnamese Independence League- the Vietminh. The Vietminh was an umbrella grouping of anti-French and anti-Japanese nationalists, but with the handle of an umbrella-hence control-held firmly in hidden communist hands. To Ho Chi Minh and the ICP, the success of the ... been completed, the ICP could abandon its bourgeois and progressive allies' in the Vietminh and move to implement its Marxist-Leninist agenda. With successful establishment of Vietminh, the 1945 August revolution shaped...

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... Vietnam, and acted as the country's leader. As the president of Vietnam, he enacted various policy initiatives in order to help the country in regards to taxes and starvation. The French refused to recognize Vietnam's independence, and Ho Chi Minh continued to fight for the independence of his country, although he was never entirely successful. Vietnamese nationalism and Vietnamese communism are ... necessarily naturally follow the other. The nationalism ideology focuses more towards the liberation of the country from foreign imperialism. The communist ideology was less broad, and focus...

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... ideals, while some may have had excellent points resulted in inadequate consequences. In this paper, I would like to explore the democratic outlook of the French and the communistic views of the Russians. In conclusion, I will also combine the positive and negative attributes of both to ascertain a true ideal state ... person. This, the lower class hoped, would grant the freedom to own property; the basis of social equality. Napoleon, the leader of the revolution was granted an immense amount of praise and power. This was one mistake pointed out by Kant when he said that it would be a ......

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... in reality control events. In the first half of the 19th century great changes were taking place in Europe. Under the energy of the industrial revolution, factory production was advancing in leaps and bounds, and with it, the economic power of the manufacturers. They became the most active section of ... This class of capitalists had grown up out of the small masters or "burgesses" of the cities and is also known by the French word "bourgeoisie". But the industrial revolution which pushed the manufacturers to the front also brought an increase in the number of factory workers. It gave bi...

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... of strategies attempting to eradicate colonization is one where the side, which incurs the greatest bloodshed, rises as victor. This strategy was best demonstrated in the Algerian-French conflict through revolutionary decolonization as Fanon and Césaire express through Marxist theories. Whereas Gandhi voiced for a peaceful battle, as an example of negotiated decolonization who ... colonizers capitalism must not exist. Yet, he simultaneously emphasized those who were colonized became complacent with their status. He called for the break away of French culture, including the French lang...

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... over throw the communist but they have okay so they are afraid to take a chance. There needs to be a revolution in China. The people should rise up and in the masses should demand social reform. The people do not think about revolution, one because they are afraid, and two because they don't have anyone to lead them into battle so to speak ... to put into theirs. By not really having a say in the political scene the Chinese are limited to who they can vote for and consequentially who runs the nation. The French have established a more militaristic government because they have always had...

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... years that followed when Russia was corrupted by a brutal dictator and communist government. All of the characters in Animal Farm represent actual people and things that are present during the revolution. The novel begins as a pig named Old Major tells the rest of the animals on the farm about a dream that he had. He tells the animals that the reason behind ... Comrade Napoleon, a dictator who will do anything even kill and brutalize his own people for the sake of power. His name also has some significance. Napoleon Bonaparte took over the French Revolution and formed his own empire whi...

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... an iron cage of rationality and bureaucracy." Finally, Durkheim "believed that industrialization would lead to decreasing social solidarity." These three all envisioned different impacts the Industrial Revolution would have on people in society. Karl Marx had Alienation, Max Weber had Rationalization, and Durkheim had Solidarity. Three of the most important sociological theorist in history are Karl ... of an idea bureaucracy was a hierarchy of command, impersonality, written rules of conduct, advancement based on achievement, specialized division of labor and efficiency. Emile Durkheim ...

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... writers of the Constitution "were determined to end the period of economic depression, social uncertainty, and very weak central government that had followed independence" (McKay, 695). After the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were written. These two documents were the basis of this constitution, and its purpose was to develop a working government and help ... Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, and it is considered "one of the greatest revolutionary documents"(Beatty/Johnson, 174). Marx and Friedrich wanted to push the pro...

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... and the exploited, and the oppressor and the oppressed. Marx saw the classes as being in constant conflict with one another and depended on this conflict to lead into a revolution. This revolution would pave the way for a new socialist system that would abolish the private ownership of the means of production. When there is private ownership the individual works in his own ... ownership of private property. They advocated a regulated market to resolve poverty and suffering. Their ideas were too revolutionary for the time. They tried to re-establish the ideals from the French Revolution ...

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"The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas" (Marx, 29). The Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 ... advocates, and the effects the document had on the international community after its publication. The Communist Manifesto gives insight into Europe's hierarchal social structure of the 19th centuary. After the French Revolution, feudalism was overthrown and replaced by free trade, which birthed a new class known as the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are millio...

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... 19th century, however it wasn't long until the controversial ideas spread rapidly across the nation. After the main powers of Europe entered into the Holy Alliance (Pope, Tsar, Metternich, Guizot, French Radicals, and German Police Spies), there was an opportunity for change within the government. Marx suggests two consequences from the specter: "Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers ... not to abolish all property relations but just that of the bourgeois. Marx then continues and addresses how the abolition of property rights is not only exclusive inside communism. Th...

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... a laudable and heroic leader whose speeches were great and beautiful, causing the youth of Italy to learn by heart part of his speeches . As Mussolini brought to Italy something their French counterparts always lacked, a leader, he also created a nations in which "it was no longer a matter of the interests of the international proletariat or the Italian proletariat: it was Italy first ... he tried to build the new city called Mussolinia, only a few foundations finished. If his plans did not work abruptly, Mussolini usually gave up . "Mussolini created a spiritual, political and moral re...

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... , with one party as oppressor, the other as oppressed. The complex and multi-member class hierarchies traditionally organize human societies. It also demises of feudalism, which was effected by the French Revolution. Which brought about a simplification of class antagonism. Society is split into only two classes: bourgeoisie and proletariat. Marx delineates his vision of history, focusing on the development and eventual destruction ... ...

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