Socialist Party of America

Politics in America have become nothing more than a pissing match between liberals and conservatives. A good example of an ideology would be socialism. Although there are several types of socialist systems, the most relevant of the set are based off the work of Marx and Engels. When discussing socialism today in America we have seen fierce debate on whether political leaders are basing their ideas off socialist ideology. One example is Bernie Sanders. He has been slammed by the Republican party…

“A fundamental problem which faced Weimar Germany was the need to come to terms with the post-war world, at a time when a large proportion of the population was determined not to do just that” (Bessel and Feuchtwanger, 1981, p.15). On the 11th November 1918, Germany surrendered, marking the end of the First World War. They had played a major part in WW1 and when they were defeated this was a huge shock for the country. Those who signed the Armistice were to become known as the ‘November…

American fear of communist attack, USSR’s fear of American attack, Stalin’s dislike by President Truman, USSR’s fear of the US’s atomic bomb, USSR’s disagreement of capitalism and aim to spread world communism, USSR’s acts in the Soviet zone in Germany, America refusing to share nuclear secrets, USSR’s expansion west into Europe as well as broken election promises, and USSR’s need for a secure western border. There was widespread…

meatpacking industry. I decided to read this book after it was referenced in class, as I had read excerpts of the novel in the past but I had never read the entire story. I thought this novel would be an interesting look at the industrialization of America in relation to the impacts of industrialization and modernization on the environment. A major concept presented…

only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programs, plays, novels to a Newspeak dictionary” (Orwell). The Inner party was just putting out all the information in Oceania but the information is the only things they want you to know. In the quote about Hitler and his totalitarian state, it also referenced that the people he ruled had no freedom of speech.…

Throughout the history of the Spain and Latin America, there have been many remarkable Nobel Prize winners for literature. All of these Nobel Prize winners each had their different twist as to why they made won the Nobel Prize in the first place. These honorary authors and poets range from such people as Juan Ramon Jimenez, who wrote about the poverty of Spain in unique set of poems in “Platero and I” to Latin America’s Gabriela Mistral, who stood out for her the way should could emotionally…

period has, the national socialistic government was championed at the time. Both From Ghost Dance to Death Camps: Nazi Germany as a Crisis Cult by John Conner, and Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz show that Germans sympathized with the Nazi party because Hitler sent a message that he could make Germany great again by solving the economic crisis through blaming the Jews. Conner 's article begins by comparing the idea that Germany became barbaric before the WWII, and the idea that the…

Stalin. ("Eastern Bloc.") Stalin viewed the Soviet Union as a “socialist island” and says that the Soviet Union must see that “ the present…

Throughout history, freedom has played a central role in American society. Freedom is an entitlement of all humanity, but America deprived some people of freedom because of their race, gender, class, and other ways. Freedom is not a birthright but it is an ideal goal which inspired so many Americans sacrifice. Since 1865, freedom was not distributed evenly in our country. It granted to some and withheld from others. Therefore, during the periods such as Reconstruction, Progressivism, and the…

defined citizenship and protected all Americans, and extended suffrage to all men. The Freedman’s Bureau/Civil Rights Act also helped blacks play a role in the governments, economies and society by allowing them to be elected to political office. White America found it difficult to accept the fact that African Americans could ever be considered their equal and during the period that begun around 1877 that picked up steam during the early twentieth century, the Black Codes gave a major…