Communism

a. How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegory? Be specific and provide examples from the text to support your statements. The farm is an allegory to the soviet union. The first example is in the first paragraph of the story and is talking about animals in the farms lives not remembering the times before "the rebellion" started but meant the people in the soviet union don't remember what it was like. The farm being enlargened refers to the oppressed russian people having to work for stalin. b.…

Socialism: What It Means Socialism needs to be clearly defined because the meaning of socialism gets confused with many other different classes of economic systems. The main mistake people make about socialism is that people confuse it with communism. Some people even think it is part of a capitalist form of economics. A good example of a socialist government, is the government of Cuba. In Cuba, the government owns the businesses, however the state hires the employees. As stated by Richard…

In Suzanne Collins ' The Hunger Games, the Capitol serves as the nation of Panem 's government. By instituting a division of power, demonstrating their power, and establishing a police force, The Capitol 's ideals of a utopia became corrupt and, as a result, were transformed into an oppressive system of government. The Capitol, like most totalitarian governments, initially had pure intentions and wanted nothing more than to see their citizens prosper and flourish under their rule. It was only…

Havel are similar in their ideas because they both adamantly support the use peaceful and verbal actions versus violence or coups. Konrad’s approach is also non-violent. However, Konrad believes that the creation of a new political party to overtake communism is not the answer. Konrad believes the lives of the people would…

1984’s Warning to the World The original intent of communism was to form a utopian society where there is no government or centralized power, and the whole population is equal. However, history has proven that countries which attempted to achieve this goal usually ended up with a powerful dictator who exercised complete control over society. More specifically, this occurred in 1924 when Joseph Stalin gained control of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union and eventually became the nation’s…

The words communism and socialism in today’s world (and especially during the Cold War), had an extremely negative connotation, but for the working class living a century earlier, it seemed ideal. Karl Marx and his close friend Frederick Engels were both men beyond their years with radical ideas composed into their book The Communist Manifesto, which influenced revolutions across Europe throughout the Nineteenth century. Analyzing the key points Marx lays out and how they relate to the…

This document is a political pamphlet which is an essay. The authors are Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels. They are telling me about the industrial revolution and communism. Karl Marx had earned a doctorate degree from the University of Jena in 1841. A couple weeks later he got caught up in the atmosphere of social revolution in his hometown. Friedrich Engels was an upper middle class German in Manchester, England. He wasn’t like majority of the factory owners that he was working with. He was more…

After reading Churchill’s speech I conclude that he thought the Soviet Union was trying to spread communism throughout Eastern Europe and the rest of the world which could possible lead to a third world war. From what I understood Churchill’s method to stop this threat of war from happening was to rely on the United Nations Organization, because he believed the organization be vastly improved compared to the League of Nations and more efficient. To begin the definition of self-determination is…

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” (Orwell, 1949) George Orwell is a well-known propaganda writer that spoke against communism, especially the Soviet Union. In his novel 1984, he wrote about a government spying and using cruelty against its own people. This type of fictional propaganda of communism highlighted some of the many why the United States and so many other countries were distrustful of the Soviet Union. Although the people of the Soviet Union were strengthened…

When it comes to the Namhee Lee’s article, it is hard not to dismiss the undongkwon activists as communist sympathizers. Regarding their main goal, do they want to bring democracy or communism to South Korea? After reading the article, this response argues that their true motive involves spreading communism in South Korea. First off, when it comes to the intellectual undongkwon activists (students), it is clear that they heavily despise capitalism. According to Lee, they see capitalist…