... an adjudicator. The theory of Marxism is third and last theory of the state that I will discuss. Marx and Engels can be seen as the "founding fathers- of Marxism. The simplest expression of what Marx and Engels thought of the state is contained within the "Communist Manifesto". In this they state: "...the bourgeoisie, has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of ... the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourge...

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... is equality. The rise of communism caused a series of events that led Americans to fear communists around the world, in their own country and the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.  Karl Marx, who founded the idea of communism, had a theory that socioeconomic systems are holding human societies' progress through class struggle: a conflict between ownership class and laboring class. Surprisingly, this idea ... . To stop this fear caused by the Soviets on February 1946, George F. Kennan an American diplomat in Moscow proposed a policy of containment. This policy's purpose was preventing...

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... of credit history, job history or assets. Not all governments, however, stress the importance of individual goals over the goals of society as a whole. Communist and socialist beliefs stress the equal distribution of wealth to all working members of society. Ironically, these views have been labeled throughout history as being anti-American ... complex problem with no simple answer. This problem, however, does not exist only in America, this problem also exist in European countries as well. Karl Marx, who is considered by The Wall Street Journal to be one of the three greatest modern thi...

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... micro level the specific government ideoalogy surrounding war in Vietnam. The Vietnam War was about control, or containment of, the communist ideology in the world. North Vietnam had become a communist country, a satellite of the communist motherland the Soviet Union, and the communist ideology was quickly spreading to the democratic South Vietnam. The democratic United States feared this spread, thinking that once South Vietnam ... hell, animal vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays" [p. 59]. Not only did Herr recognize errors specifically in...

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... institution which goes against the popular view. "At most colleges, it is the administration who sets up the codes. Because there have been racist or sexist or homophobic taunts, anonymous notes or graffiti, the administration feels it must do something. The easiest way to demonstrate that it cares is to appear to suppress racist, sexist, homophobic speech (Hentoff 353). To show ... the first amendment because hate speech is seen as harmful to minorities because the thirteenth amendment enforces the idea of equal protection of all under the law. However , Harvey Silvergate notes that "U...

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... , opposing that which he believes in. Ginsberg is concerned that America breeds greed, and instead believes in more communist approaches. In "America" he admits to being a communist when he was "a kid" and declares that he is "not sorry". He also states that he reads "Marx", a philosopher and sociologist who believed religion only to be the "Opium of the masses", a tool of social control ... ...

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... stand-off between East and West, not only in Europe but throughout the world. However, it could be defined as the following. "From 1945-90 Communist Russia and the capitalist west confronted each other in what was known as the Cold War - Cold because there was no actual fighting,""1. Another definition is ... military-political alliance or blocs.""2. It has also been described as "the shifting struggle for power and prestige between the western powers and the communist bloc from the end of the World War II until 1989-3. Each side was of the opinion that they were superior to the other a...

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... journalists." (79) Most tabloid writers are very accomplished and professional journalists. Among tabloid writers many have won journalistic awards. Bill Sloan, author of " I Watched A Wild Hog Eat My Baby!" even notes that "one Tattler writer had been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, and a couple others had been nominated for journalism's most coveted honor". (14) Most tabloid writers were lured to tabloids for either ... even more financially attractive." (15) Of course, this attracted many of journalisms best to the tabloids like metal to a magnet. Not all journalists were attracted solely ...

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... books were considered popular culture because Americans embraced what he was writing about, since Americans were swept away by anti-communism. Subsequently, since Spillane's fiction was filled with anti-communist ideals it is obvious why it was so popular among the American public. Additionally, books that would normally be considered politically incorrect, and even offensive became very popular, simply ... because they were anti-communist. For example, in Mickey Spillane's novel One Lonely Night, the main male character, Detective Mike Hammer " realizes that Ethel Brighton has continue...

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... to get out of the ghetto and make something of themselves, have been subject to much scrutiny from record labels and companies, as Marx suggested, "Men make their history, but they do not make it just as they please" (Marx, 1968, pg 96, orig pub 1852) cited in Sociology In Perspective,1997, pg 27). In a musical genre believing in the ultimate freedom ... commodities. In a culture obsessed with material wealth these people have been prepared to give anything in an attempt to fulfil their material desires, in some cases even their own lives. Marx believed capitalism has an impressive abil...

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... - Now days the Truman Doctrine is thought to have become an "ideological shield - by which America could explain any threats to the Western system as communist inspired not as a fault of the system. However the Soviet's saw this as a very aggressive move. They also thought the Marshall Plan was a ... Russian response to the Marshall plan while Cominform was the response to the Truman Doctrine. Cominform was designed to strengthen the ties between the European communist countries. Comecon was the economic portion of Cominform and was aimed at strengthening Cominform. These policies led t...

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... his past adventures, including some questionable tax returns, began catching up with him, he needed an issue that would obscure all this. In the 1950's he found his issue, Communist power and subversion. McCarthy, whose name has become a analogue for demagoguery, first caught the public eye during the feverish Red Scare that followed the conviction of the former State ... taking in not only writers, intellectuals, movie actors, journalists and scientists, but also senior army officers and even President Truman himself. With the war going poorly in Korea and communist advances in Eastern...

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... fuel the fire more by perpetuating the "witch hunt". Joseph McCarthy burst onto the scene at the forefront of this fiasco, claiming that the United States government was replete with communist spies or sympathizers. His timely claims caught a heightened America off guard and sent the nation into a frenzied panic. The Senator was proving to be ineffective throughout his first term ... possibly even opening the door for them were two highly publicized trials regarding espionage and treason. The case of Alger Hiss in 1948 confirmed the possibility that American officials had Communist moti...

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... of a social commentary on the era of McCarthyism that swept through the America in the 1950s. Senator Joe McCarthy accused many people of being Communist and spreading Communist ideas. Many of those people were blacklisted and had their careers ended by McCarthy's wild imputations. Joe McCarthy was born in Wisconsin and ... State Department. Many people were stunned by this speech and became interested in this topic. After the speech, McCarthy ruled as "Washington's number-one Communist hunter" (196), though in his entire career he was never to catch a single one. McCarthy was named the ...

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... politicians to regulate their hiring practices, but following the HUAC hearings the "blacklists" began in Hollywood. No one who was known to be a communist would be employed (Fried, 77-78). Producers started questioning their employees on many topics including politics and affiliations. In the case that the employee ... 's answers did not fit with the Waldorf Statement which was that no known Communist would be hired, the employee was fired, or let go (Fried, 78). With one exception anyone who confessed, and gave the names of ... other "Communists" were spared (Garraty, 531). After the b...

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... speaking engagement at thee Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia he charged 205 persons in the U.S. State Department of being members of the Communist Party (Martine 8). Fear caused the American people to succumb to the preposterous charges brought forth by McCarthy displaying resemblance's to that of the Salem ... John Proctor for witchcraft and other immorality. When Joseph McCarthy announced the contents of his blacklist in 1950 people started accusing others of being communist just like in Salem 1692. This did not stop McCarthy though. In 1953, McCarthy led 157 more in...

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... of a social commentary on the era of McCarthyism that swept through the America in the 1950s. Senator Joe McCarthy accused many people of being Communist and spreading Communist ideas. Many of those people were blacklisted and had their careers ended by McCarthy's wild imputations. Joe McCarthy was born in Wisconsin and ... State Department. Many people were stunned by this speech and became interested in this topic. After the speech, McCarthy ruled as "Washington's number-one Communist hunter" (196), though in his entire career he was never to catch a single one. McCarthy was named the ...

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... faith and his patriotism in that two day conference in Indianapolis, Welch and the John Birch Society set forth on a crusade to enlighten America about the a very real Conspiracy of a Communist coup. John Birch, the organization's namesake was a fundamentalist Baptist missionary. He knew at the age of eleven that he wanted to become a missionary. The New American reported in its ... needed to strategically organize fronts against Communism. If they were to spread their resources across America, they could stop the spread of Communism that goes under the radar since, no Communist would ...

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... movement and sent in fourteen thousand troops, however, they failed to stop communism taking over Russia. In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. President Woodrow Wilson, and the United States, offered an alternative to communism. Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War ... these two great countries. America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." (Isaacs & Downing, Transworld Publishers, 1998. Pg. 44) After Britain declared it could no longer support ...

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... of King's speech is when he asks, "could it be that they do not know that the good news is meant for all men -- For communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and white, for revolutionary and conservative?" (King 854) here he compares communism to capitalism. He ... of labor for the common advantage of all members. In contrast, capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of capital. However, if both Communist and Capitalist share the same religious beliefs, are they really so different? Next he brings up children. I believe he does this to evoke com...

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... Communism, too, was spreading seemingly unrestrained through the world. America immediately became aware. Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have lists of names of people that secretly held allegiances with the communist parties, lists that often contained names of many high ranking public officials and also celebrities. The media, which was so important in the fifties, picked up on McCarthy's "blacklists ... . As a result, this began a series of showy and well-publicised raids against radicals. Striking without warning and without warrants, Palmer's men smashed union offices and the hea...

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... more money than all of Latin America combined. At first Americans gave Castro a good assessment, but President Eisenhower's government remained suspicious about communist success. The US was further angered when Castro's nationalistic speeches became increasingly anti-American. The Revolution had severed ties between the US and Cuba ... to America. They saw what happened in Russia earlier, and the success communism had there and now this just added. Dealing with one enemy communist state was hard enough, let alone having to deal with two. This hate America had for communists in a way co...

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... the economy whereas the poor practically participate. Through this symbolic contribution, the upper class is somehow valued and thus the other social and economic classes want to have their lifestyle. Marx expresses that this causes some class conflict because it is unfair that the rich continue to lead lifestyles that the poor cannot maintain due to the income gap ... (MARX). This is also what Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson were talking about in "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the ... ...

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... program called "The Alliance for Progress" (Randall 57) which dealt with communism in Latin America. The United States of America was worried about the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a communist country and had a lot of influence on Latin countries. One of the main Latin countries was Cuba. The United States was in a constant battle with the Soviet Union. The battle ... to give the Soviet Union any advantages. The Alliance for Progress program tried to bring stability to Latin America's political system. They wanted to prevent any kind of revolution especially, a communist one. They...

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... wanted to invade the North and take the fight right up to the Chinese. Truman wanted to maintain the status quo; he wanted to contain communist forces along the 38th parallel and prevent any further incursion into the south. Korea had become a conflict of opinion regarding the definition of war5. ... in Vietnam. Once night had fallen U.N troops ventured out into no-mans land under the cover of night to locate and eliminate any communist troops in the area. Things like platoon tactics and close fire support from mortars and artillery, all which became the key to survival for ... in enemy...

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