The "communist" government that Mao Zedong brutally sculpted and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. ... Now the government exists as a quasi-communist authoritarian regime supported by a market economy. ... Instead of focusing on the modernization of the country's agricultural-based economy, China's leader intended to install the many values and doctrines of communism into Chinese society. ... Any reform that challenged one-party rule could be detrimental to the Chinese government in the long run. ... This cultural change, this economic base, is very imp...

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There will always be scandal and corruption in government. ... The fundamentals in which their society is based on reminds me of those of any democratic form of government. ... This gives the chance for debate in their government. ... The police and military instilled fear in them, they were not allowed to speak their minds in fear of punishment by the government. ... This was the way of controlling the public, by scaring them; no one dared to speak out against the government and the leaders. ...

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Basically the money goes to the government once again and they are suppose to use it to benefit the country. 4. ... This basically means no free speech; the government takes the right to censor any publications and thoughts, like ones against the government. ... In the end, the government looks almost like feudalism again. ... Karl Marx had based his ideas and thoughts around those of Hegel and the Hegelian dialect, Sismondi, Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Robert Owen and Thomas Moore. ... Some of today's unions are based upon the ideas in the Communist Manifesto, because of course communism was fo...

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The concept of populism refers to the political activities or political ideas that are based on the interests and opinions of ordinary people. ... There was also the problem of technology being brought from abroad which was based upon Western needs and economics. ... To compensate for this the governments placed high tariffs on the imports of the same materials. ... Obviously the US government was a major factor in this situation and was extremely reluctant to be bought out. ... The US government was not amused. ...

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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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This is how Marx created his idea of governmental evolution. ... He laid out a set path that governments would need to take to evolve, yet he said that it was continually based on the amount of comparable wealth people had. ... Marx used all of the past and current types of government in his list of dialectically progressive government types, but he also used one more. He placed this last unheard of type of government, at the top of governmental evolution, it was communism. ... After the society has settled into the new form of government there will be an end to class struggle and an end t...

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Basic Institutions of Capitalism The foundation of capitalism is the based on the idea of private property and free markets. ... Wealth is based on how much you have to sell, not how much you have for show (Heilbroner2 49). ... Government could never act as a third party between the two classes. The upper class was always going to control government and therefore have control over the lower class (Heilbroner1 161). ... The government took on the responsibility to protect and improve the market through such means as anti-trust laws (Heilbroner1 166). ...

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I propose a review of the evidence that Historical, Economic, Sociological, Political, Cultural and Gender based and Geographic factors explain why many films of the gritty-realist tradition being set in northern landscapes. ... This is due to the needs and issues that the working classes deal with being related to the baser hunter gatherer ideals of food and shelter. ... As with the economy the North is not the seat of government and as such does not have the potential for political settings and scenarios, this favors documentary- realist productions. ... The South of England is conside...

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Therefore he based his writings in a way where it would make the reader feel guilt if they didn't agree and be in accord with his thoughts. The tactics that Marx uses when writing the Communist Manifesto, cast blame on his critics as being anti-fairness advocates and seekers of a divided class based society. ... Marx's stances were generally based on a preceding philosopher's theories, which he occasionally accorded with on certain ideas, but seldom did on a broader scale. ... Fearing that this point may effect the perception of his theory, Marx supplements the idea by statin...

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In Guatemala the government is structured through the elite, and the elite only look out for their interest, another factor that affects the country from progressing is the structure of the class, which creates a gap between the rich and the poor, and not to mention the gap between the indigenous and the urbanization. ... Majority of their economy is based on agriculture. The government in the Republic of Guatemala is a constitutional democratic republic, where the president is both the head of state and head of government. ... Marxism's theory applies very well to the structure of Gu...

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Greece's government also faces pension cuts. It is impossible to know whether its citizens can receive public pensions from the government. ... " "Political centralization" results in independent regions with laws, government, and a tax system that unite in one nation with one government, one law, one frontier, and one tariff system (Marx and Engels 2000:7). ... European integration is based on the development of capitalism and globalization. Also, they established the collective economic policy and the currency policy based on European markets. ...

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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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Their revolt was simply based on economic grievances they had to pay unbearable amount of taxes to the corrupted local officials, and when they could no longer afford they would be treated brutally by shock teams. ... Similarly, in both 1994 April 2 Incident and 2002 Liaoyang Demonstration, protestors were bullied or imprisoned, and most demands were rejected by the government. ... Therefore, the people in China are unlikely to push the government into a political reform. ... With the popularity of internet, the government can hardly censor information, for instance about its foreign policy. ...

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The systems are referred to as governments and the resources as the populace or inhabitants and forces of production. A government must be dynamic in its nature reflecting the change in society. ... "the 'rise of the gentry' ... ideas concerning resistance to rulers ... nor even the narrowing financial base of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy ... determined the outbreak of the Civil War ... ... The two aspects of RMT are government and those who contend with the government for power. ... First, two or more organizations (government included) must claim the right to rule ...

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Anyone, or any group within society can organise as a pressure group and thereby seek to have its policy preferences reflected in government, or state, decisions. ... Pluralism therefore calls for a complex network of interest organisations throughout society, each of which possesses its own power base and hence can function relatively independent of the government. ... If the government were given the power to regulate or in any way to forbid efforts by organised interests to interfere in the political process, the government would in effect have been given the power to suppress freedom. Jam...

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The weakness of the political system in Italy was mainly based in selfishness. ... This truly was a "debased" Government. ... The people were getting incredibly angry with their Governments and system. ... Radicals seized Government buildings and two areas declared themselves republics. ... Government troops suppressed the unrest in a week. ...

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Background Marxism is a series of economical, social and political based ideologies that oppose capitalism. ... "I would take off all my jewelry and stick it inside the faucets in our kitchen when the government and the communists came to check on our house. ... Taken by the government, the communists were behind this, as my father would always say. ... What Mao didn't realize was Marxism was just an ideology and dream that has not been put into reality yet and based on the Chinese people's economical circumstances will not be successful. ... I heard all my teachers were punishe...

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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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Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. ... The U.S. government also took it into its hands to launch a huge propaganda to raise the Cold War scare and keep ideology the same and uniform. ... The U.S. government violated their rights by interrogating "suspects" and asking if they were communists or ever had been. ... The U.S. got involved with Korea and Vietnam, both communist nations, and tried to occupy and convert them with new governments. ... In 1964, women win a huge battle with the passing of a civil rights bill tha...

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The "New Politics" of "New Labour", is to a large extent, based on the work of Anthony Giddens. ... The Third Way stresses activist, dynamic government for, "In a globalizing world, we need more government, not less." After all," We need the active hand of government to refurbish civic culture, to reconstruct everyday civility." ... Changing the emphasis of government intervention so that it deals with education, training and infrastructure and not things like industrial intervention or tax and spend. 3. ... Re-inventing government, decentralisation, opening up government so that what counts ...

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Russia, during the turn of the 20th century, experienced a great surge of political movements whose aim was to change the existing form of government. ... He developed a theory that was based on the idea that economic factors throughout the cycle of history have dictated the struggles that have existed between different classes of society. ... Then the proletariat would be mature and ready to overthrow the bourgeoisie and institute the purest form of government: communism. ... Another aspect of the revolution in which Marxism and Leninism differed was on the form of government that would be i...

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These professions include government and business bureaucrats, professionals, teachers, journalists, and many others (Sweezy, p. 126). ... With a vast fortune of money and power, the ruling class has at its advantage the most powerful and influential ally; the U.S. government. ... This process is discussed most often when talking about Congressional committees, regulatory agencies, and governmental departments. ... This is the process where money can either be held or distributed based on what the candidate represents. ... While the ideology process is influential to the government, it ha...

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Because of the lack of government control, the capitalist upper class ran the government, pursuing their interests while hardly being taxed. ... In America capitalism was based on a laissez-faire economic system. The government did not intervene within society's role to manage itself, especially economically. This changed after the Great Depression, as the people looked to the government for new ways to stimulate the economy. ... These laws allowed the American working class to bridge the gap with the upper-class bourgeoisie running government. ...

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This quote from Karl Max is an introduction to his philosophy of government and economics. ... His theories on economics and government have had immense effects on the world. ... The first revolution was in March, when the Tsar was deposed and a provisional government was set up. Then in November a political called the Bolsheviks led a further rebellion which ousted the provisional government. ... This graph gives a good visual spectrum of different forms of government and shows where certain counties are on the spectrum. ...

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