History of communism

He called this the five stages of economic development. What comes first is primitive communism. Under primitive communism there is shared property, hunting and gathering, and proto-democracy (tribes are led by the best warrior if there is war, the best diplomat if they have steady contact with other tribes and so forth). The second stage is slave society…

1949 Revolution and 1989 Tiananmen Square protests Throughout history, there has been many revolutions or rebellions that sought to make changes in societies. One of the common changes people fight for is their country’s form of government. World-widely, uprisings calling for democratic ideas were more typical than which call for communist styles of government. However, cultural movements towards communist path have been more successful in China. Two of the events that took place in China,…

Throughout history, in literature, and even in today’s modern world, a myriad of revolutions have occurred to overthrow harsh powers. Certain people take the role to initiate these revolutions to change the style of living for those not living a privileged lifestyle. Any situation requires one who is not satisfied with the status quo, and feels the need to take the extra step further to improve the life for those around them. Leon Trotsky helped to initiate the Russian Revolution, and should be…

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. " [Nixon]. In order to understand this event, one ultimately needs to examine the cause and every possible perspective of that cause. After World War II, the Vietnamese people anticipated reunification and democracy away from French rule. The Vietnamese were hindered heavily by French colonialism, resulting in the increasing popularity of communist revolutionary, Ho Chi…

communist totalitarian Soviet Union; state-controlled Soviet communism clashed with both American free market capitalism and representative democracy. When Ho Chi Minh and the communist Vietminh defeated the French army in Vietnam in 1954, Americans believed that the Vietminh were offshoots of monolithic Soviet communism, which is the idea that all communist countries were controlled by the Soviet Union. Thus, in order to stop the spread of communism, the United States installed the…

Communism is an interesting ideology that seems great theoretically but is very difficult to apply in the real world. From the Soviet Union to China, communism has always been a part of human history. Rather than looking at either of these, this essay will look at communism that unravelled in a small island by the name of Cuba and will try to determine if Cuban communism is an ideology. Before this can be delved into, ideology must be first understood and must set the conditions in which an idea…

whom are actually Hmong. A lot of the grandparents of the Hmong students fought for the US in Laos during the Vietnam War. It’s a pretty small community. Speech Outline “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” ― Aldous Huxley (project on screen but do not comment on) Introduction: I am here to tell you why you should care about the Vietnam War. I will give a small, not complete synopsis, of some of the…

Marx emphasized for a “peaceful revolution if possible”. This deviation is due to Mao’s characteristic of using violence. There were multiple causes that could have led to such a characteristic or belief within Mao. Firstly, it is the fact that the history of China is tainted with one bloody revolution after another, establishing dynasty after dynasty. This could result in the mentality of using violence once again. This is ironic when seeing how Mao greatly looked down upon “old culture”.…

The work force has been altered throughout the course of history, largely due to changes in government form in the extensive worldwide nations. As wars have occurred both within countries and between them, imposed governments have changed the working class. The labor force has suffered the consequences of governmental changes such as China, USSR, North Korea, and other communist countries. For the future, more warfare is bound to occur, thus altering the government forms of countries. All…

11, 2017 After World War II, an anti-communist movement emerged in the United States. This period, which was known as the Red Scare, emerged after the war in the mid-1940’s and lasted into the 1950’s. During the Red Scare, the fear of communism was prevalent both within the government and among private citizens. There were a variety of factors, both international and domestic, that led to the post war Red Scare, and the phenomenon ultimately had a negative effect on civil liberties in…