Autocracy

Julius Caesar is upheld as one of the most influential politicians of European history. Caesar was truly influential for every man and women of Rome. Caesar was successful in the battle field and had a large group of dedicated followers, but more importantly Caesar caused some anger and some extreme hatred towards himself. Julius Caesar was assassinated because the people of Rome stood firmly against a tyrant, rumors regarding Julius Caesar caused fear and uncertainty of Rome’s future, and…

have cast off all such ‘selfishness’, and would perfectly reflect a spirit of undifferentiated universal love (jen).” Kang Youwei agreed with the idea that there was a “fixed sequence” in human progress. With the presence of jen, he believed that “autocracy gradually leads to constitutionalism, and constitutionalism gradually leads to republicanism.” Therefore, in order for society to evolve, according to Kang Youwei, people would have to diminish and eventually…

The dehumanizing effects of bureaucratic, mechanistic, command and control organizations does not concern about occupational wellbeing, level of stress, health and safety of those working in business and the organizations. It is detrimental on the individual’s psychological well being and leads to other stress related physical un- wellness. The concept of Humanization is fostered by creating a physical and conceptual environment that encourages principles of security, principle of equity,…

In 1917, Russia went through the most drastic political change in the country’s history. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, over threw Czar Nicholas II, whose family had been in control of Russia for over 300 years. After the Bolsheviks took power, Vladimir Lenin began to rebuild Russia. His focus was primarily in the political and economic spheres of Russian Life. Lenin did not place much of an importance on the cultural sphere of Russian life. This led to a period of tolerance in which…

Democracy is a dominant concept widely used in modern government, and it is also opposed to “autocracy” in political doctrine. In the past centuries to now, the concept of the democracy and the formation process in different countries have different results, hence each country’s democratic system is not the same. As people can see that most predecessor of the democratic government were authoritarianism, thus “democratization” can be seen as a means of the citizens to resist the dictatorship. In…

Glauber Rocha’s Terra em transe brilliantly highlights the cyclical nature of traditional repression by presenting the oppressive elite of populism and autocracy as equal in failing to meet the needs of the povo and yet destined to retain power. Stamm comments that ‘Romanticism, the film suggests, is out of place in a world where the political earth is in convulsion’[ Stamm,1976, pp. 49-51]. This ‘convulsion’…

An Analysis of Intellectualism in Crime and Punishment On December 22, 1849, at eight A.M., Fyodor Dostoyevsky was roughly tied to a wooden stake and blindfolded (Townsend). An opponent of tsarist autocracy and serfdom, the young writer had joined a progressive group known as the Petrashevsky Circle. He was soon arrested for subversive political activity against Tsar Nicholas I and condemned to death. As members of the firing squad raised their guns, a courier arrived and revealed the…

The landscape that Europe was met with after the cataclysmic events of World War I was essential in both formulating emerging ideological movements and restructuring past ideas. Fascism would emerge as a tool, especially in ensuing international conflicts in the 1940s, to assist leaders in manipulating domestic nationalist bases to spread homogenous ideas to minority groups through militant and authoritarian tactics. Communism during this period would only vaguely echo the mid-19th century…

Is Japan immune to social change? An essay on similarities and differences in the: society, culture and economy of the home islands, across Doctor Akagi and Akira. In this essay I will compare and contrast the Doctor Akagi and Akira. These two films, produced respectively 1988 (Akira) and 1998 (Doctor Akagi), show Japan in a time of crises, with destruction on the horizon. Throughout both the plot each film ventures in all aspects of society, from neo-slums to tech villas in Akira; to country…

Despite stressing the importance of freedom throughout its history, America has had a record of discriminatory action in terms of granting freedom and in what volume it has been willing to grant that freedom. Since the annexation of the Philippines America has displayed a zeal for democratic justice and inalienable rights only when it has been beneficial to either a domestic or foreign agenda. The issues of allowing the Philippines to self-govern and granting citizenship to non-Caucasian…