Socialist state

The resumes of the Great Socialist and his cabinet colleagues in The White Tiger exemplify Bernard Shaw’s dictum. Politics has indeed become the last resort of the scoundrels. In India, it will remain so until the middle class with its acute sense of political morality starts participating in it more actively. Political thinker Pavan K. Varma observes that “politics is dirty because good people do not enter it, and because good people do not enter, politics is dirty” (154). In the Inheritance of…

Cold War was a lengthy struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that began in the aftermath of the surrender of Hitler’s Nazi regime. In 1941, Nazi aggression against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the USSR, turned the Soviet Union into an ally of the Western democracies. But in the post-war world, increasingly divergent viewpoints created rifts between those who had once been allies. The United States of America and the USSR gradually built up their…

During the Maoist era China experienced 30 years of uninterrupted leadership by one single man, that of course became almost unquestionable by the people. But after 1976 the new challenge for Chinese leaders was to leave a footprint in the country’s history during one or two mandates. It is considered difficult for succeeding leaders to have the same cultural and political influence of Mao Zedong, and the new challenge for the elites of the Chinese Communist Party was in fact to leave a clear…

During the original embargos against the Cuba by the United States in the 1960 and 1970s, the Soviet Union replaced the U.S. as a major trade partner. In the 1990s, South American nations, Russia, and other regional trade partners simply filled in the trade gap that was left by the U.S.: “The countervailing power…

recurred to covert actions against the Soviet Union. These actions were carried out within the Soviet Union, in its satellite and allied states, but also in those countries that were at a risk of infiltration of the USSR, through Communist political parties or trade unions, such as the case of Italy and France. Authorized exclusively by the President of the United States (as Kissinger involuntary had revealed), covert actions in the Cold War have included a wide range of operations, with…

principles and methods to serve the people. The United State lives under the ideals of capitalism which is a system focus on wealth and making profit. However, this ideology has caused social problems within the welfare of others, in the sense of healthcare and poverty in the country. Unlike the U.S some countries, Russia and Canada, have dealt with poverty and healthcare in a more effective way, due to their ideologies. Canada lives under a socialist system with a poverty level lower than the…

synonymous with religion, culture or geography. The downside of the media do believe that the Islamic world is a threat, when in fact extremely small groups using terrorism as a way of life (according to the FBI, 94% of terrorist attacks in the United States, 1980 to 2005 they have been for non-Muslim people, which means that it is nine times more likely to be non-Muslim terrorist a Muslim). Such a complex and diverse as it is the Middle East region is reduced to a simple stereotype eliminates…

Since I moved from Cuba to the United States, I have noticed a marked contrast between my past life in my native country and my present life here. That difference has changed in many ways my assumptions and points of views about life. First of all, my life in Cuba was full of disappointments decorated with just a few joys. It is well known that Cuba is a communist country with very narrow economic, political, and religious judgments. Since the opinions my family has had about these three aspects…

James M. Keating Dr. Paul Landow PSCI 8040 26 September 2014 Midterm Essay: The United States of an Oligarchy Introduction Based on common public discourse, left leaning circles from revolutionaries to communists love to point out the inconsistencies of democracy. The United States is always at the forefront of that conversation because of their overwhelming economic and military might (although the economic gulf that exists today is smaller than the decade following the Cold War). As the…

industrial growth. Thousands of the lower classes always struggle through hard times to make the upper classes get even richer. In the United States, thousands of workers suffered living and working with terrible conditions to benefit the richest industrialists like John D. Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie. Industrialization is a necessary evil, but the United States could have sacrificed less to achieve a substantial amount of benefits. Thousands of Americans had to live and work in horrible…