Anarchism

Introduction Every revolution has to bear a semblance of nobility with regards to the slogans that characterize it. By extension, every person who claims to be a revolutionary, according to Fitzpatrick (2001), “dreams of creating a new world out of the old one, where injustice, corruption and elements of apathy are forever removed.” In this respect, it is, therefore, justified to insinuate, just as Fitzpatrick (2001) continues to afford, that revolutionaries constitutes enthusiasts and…

On October 1st, 1949, communist leader Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China, naming himself as head of the state. The declaration ended over six years of bloody civil warfare against the Guomindang (GMD, Chinese Nationalist Party) led by the Chiang Kai-Shek, whose eventual unpopularity and corruption drove them to flee China altogether. Chairman Mao’s popular revolutionary vision for the People’s Republic Of China aimed to favor the peasantry, whereas the redistribution of land…

1) What, according to Marx in The Communist Manifesto, must one understand in order to understand the course of historical development? What, in other words, is it that moves history along? The Communist Manifesto opens to the reader by stating, “The history of all hitherto societies has been the history of class struggles”, meaning that there is a perpetual tug-of-war struggle between class status between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (Marx, 1). Marx states that the bourgeoisie are those…

Maximilien Luce was a impressionistic painter and anarchist from Paris. He was known as a French neo-impressionist artist. Neo-impressionism is defined as a late 19th century movement in French painting. He was very well-known for his paintings, engravings, and graphic art. Maximilien focused on painting, rather than engraving or graphic art. He began as an impressionistic painter, then went on to pointilism, then back to impressionism. Maximilien Luce is praised for the magnificent pieces of…

cooperatives, mutual aid, planning and social welfare services (e.g. the co-operative movement); 3) A set of arguments for social and economic organization based on ownership and control by the community (e.g. in syndicalism, guild socialism and anarchism) 4) An ideal model of society based on cooperation and equality (e.g. Owenism and utopian socialism); 5) A critique of industrial society, opposing selfish individualism (e.g. Christian socialism), and 6) A range of values, rather than a…

In most situations whether they are life-threatening or non-life-threatening, there are always individuals who receive the job of being a leader. People who are leaders take on the responsibility of keeping their society and the people they are supposed to lead from falling apart. Leaders tend to require traits that allow both themselves and their society to succeed and thrive. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph becomes the designated leader of the society after he is elected into the role by the other…

Chapter 25: The Joint Meeting of the Two Bureaus of North Kalimantan Communist Party Central (August 1972) In August 1972, the Secretary of the North Kalimantan Communist Party Central 2nd Bureau, Huang Ji Zuo came to the First Division coastal area. All members of the Party Central 1st Bureau, including Lin He Gui, his wife and I, came from Matang forest area to the coastal area to meet him. There would be a joint meeting between the Party Central 1st and 2nd Bureau. The meeting was…

During the Cold War Era (1947-1991), the content of the film industry was severely influenced by the threat of a nuclear war the spread of Communism into the United States. Various film panels such as the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA) were created in order to regulate the content of the film industry by censoring anti-American substance. Because the growth and evolution of the McCarthyism, or the…

work to this end. The ‘Public Security Preservation Law of 1925’, during the Kato Takaaki government, was one such law that hindered the human rights of the subjects of Japan. This law was aimed at stemming the spread of socialism, com-munism, and anarchism by labelling anyone who would wish to change the national structure of the government as a criminal. This meant that the government could therefore label any dissent against the structure as illegal, creating a muzzle on the freedom of…

The Red Scare was the widespread, overwhelming fear that communists were trying to overthrow the American government in the early 1920’s. The recent end of World War I and the Russian revolutions, along with various other communist revolutions around the world helped promote their paranoia. This paranoia led to those in power at the time taking advantage of the people’s frantic state and exploiting their rights and freedoms. They did this simply to further their own agenda, even though many…