Pacifism

The first half of the twentieth century brought many new political ideologies to the forefront, among them fascism. Fascism was born out of Italy, and eventually took hold in Germany, Spain, and a handful of other countries. It fueled the Second World War, and was responsible for the deaths of millions, both the lives of the proponents and those fighting virulently against it. Fascism remains a relevant topic of exploration today, as it is important to understand how these ideas took hold, and…

the perils of the last war. So how did fascism lead to WWII? It was the ideology that contributed the most. As Mussolini explains, “Fascism… believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism … War alone…

lived as equals in these communities and shared their collective wealth with each other. However, the idea of the separation of church and state helped guide the way for religious toleration and inspiring (Blosser, Anabaptist), for the most part, pacifism. However, because they did not follow popular doctrine and criticized Catholic practices, they were labeled heretics and persecuted. One man named Balthasar Hubmainer who turned to Anabaptism said that the burning of heretics was immoral; “Now…

during the late 1970’s following the start of the original punk music genre. Although more recognised bands such as the “Sex Pistols” used anarchism as part of their shock value, bands such as “Crass” may have been the first to take anarchism and pacifism as a socio-political ideal seriously thus remaining authentic to the commonly accepted ontological assumptions of the genre. Scholars such as O’Hara (2003) states that Crass were pacifists and did not believe in using violence to get their…

Revenge for Racism Racism has been around since B.C. times, so it only makes sense that racism would be found in Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein from the very beginning. In the start of the novel Walton and fellow shipmen are exploring when they see a “being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic structure” (Shelly 17). This does not sound racist in any way, however, the follow-up comment they make…

After World War One, there were many types of new government that emerged from the chaos of the war. But, the two major governments were dictatorships and democracies. In Germany, Italy and Russia, the dictators Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin came to power after the fall of democracy in each country. There were many reasons for the change to dictatorship, including inflation, unemployment and a lost sense of trust in democracy. These dictatorships ruled for many years during the…

Woolf was deeply committed to pacifism and fully opposed to fascist thought, and her strong beliefs bleed into her creative work. It was not enough to merely denounce the rise of fascist politics as violent and domineering. Woolf perceived hidden aggression and a desire for domination…

force, there was a lack of legislative cheating, there was a lack of bully politics by the remaining major power in the world to enforce any of the League of Nations decrees. Instead, the framers went the complete opposite direction; they advocated pacifism and the United States withdrew from any type of military/peacekeeping commitments in the region. The remaining power that was the U.S. should have gathered up the remaining military forces and occupied every major city as a peacekeeping…

In 1888, Otto von Bismarck remarked that “the next great European war will probably come out of some damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” (Massie, p. 82) At the time, he was referring to the aftermath of the Serbo-Bulgarian war, which managed, in a series of resonating blows, to shatter the Ottoman Empire’s tenuous grasp on the Balkans and splinter the League of Three Empires. Over the next forty years, the ever-fluid situation in the Balkans ebbed and flowed, but never strayed far from a point…

The Civil Rights Movement was a movement to protect equal opportunities and rights for African Americans as a U.S citizen. The movement created impacts that have affected the U.S for a lifetime; such as the people that died and the laws created. At some points, members of the movement faced violence and even deaths. There were deaths of young children; such as Emmett Till. . Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who was tortured and killed because of the accusation of “whistling” at the white…