Communist Party of Cuba

Democracy The roots of Democracy can be traced back to the year 508 BC, when Cleisthenes, put in power by the people, put into effect major political reforms in Athens. In 462 BC a Direct Democracy was introduced by Pericles to the Athenian people which allowed them to vote and participate in the administration of the state. Direct Democracy has two preconditions, “The community must be small enough for citizens to be capable of attending debates and voting on issues. And its economy must give…

In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals. In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. The Soviet Union, China, Russia, Ukraine are some of the old communist countries throughout history. China, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba are still a communist countries today. Communism is considered negative because there is a strong government control, little motivation for individuals to…

divide postwar Europe. The Soviets controlled Poland and most of the Balkans while the American and British forces had liberated Western Europe from Scandinavia to Italy. The Russians were concerned about past invasions and were intent on imposing communist governments loyal to Moscow. The United States believed in self-determination and that the people in each country should freely elect their own rulers. The Soviets felt that if European governments were elected by the people they would be…

willing to leave his ideologies behind for the good of Communist Russia. The New Economic Policy was more of a capitalist policy as it allowed for some private ownership of small businesses and it reformed agricultural policies (Wood,5,5). Leonid Brezhnev was a communist…

America. The great battle for power between the United States and the USSR was a global conflict and ended up raising tension between the United States and Latin American Nations. An excellent example of this is Cuba who began to follow many Marxist tendencies and utilize the communist agenda to bring in a new Cuban future. With the practically self appointed Castro at the helm and the Russians eager to get an upper hand we get the Cuban Missile crisis that distress US Latin American…

1. Harry Truman a. Harry Truman was president during the Cold War. He had a hand in preventing the spread of Communism to other countries. Truman saw that, with the Iron Curtain dividing Europe in half, communism would spread quickly and what he wanted to do was help countries that were threatened by Communism and this is what the Truman Doctrine consisted of. He asked Congress for 40 million dollars to fund Greece and Turkey, who were threatened by Communism at the time. He figured that if we…

the most people during this time, it lead to the general understanding of the American public that the USSR was getting in position to attack America. This made the view very American, as no one wanted to check out why they had moved the missiles to Cuba. The American people during this time were much like students in a classroom. When a teacher is explaining a subject the student expects the teacher to be…

Fidel Castro was a Cuban politician who became Prime Minister of Cuba in 1959 until 1976 when he then became President of Cuba until 2008. Castro was an infamous dictator of Cuba and managed to serve as president for 32 years. Castro has been the influence of many political decisions around the world and he has quite a bit to offer as a leader. Though Fidel Castro’s name alone rings a bell of bad intention, he managed to have a support system that was loyal to him until the end. One question…

An important image in the film The Motorcycle Diaries is when Che jumps into the river which separates the Leper colony from the land of the normal inhabitants. He swims from the island where there’s a party on his birthday to the Leper colony to celebrate his birthday with the individuals who have leprosy. He attempts to overcome the stigma imposed by society of isolating the individuals with leprosy as they were infected with an ugly disease. From the moment that Che arrives at the leper…

creations of individual nations become common property, and national one-sidedness and limitations are no longer possible. He believes that communism will create a classless society and equality of all individuals and explains the first goals of the communist parties: formation of the proletariat into a class level, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat, and not the abolition of property in general, but the abolition of bourgeois property. In this…