Essays on Communism

As a young writer in a time of brewing class tensions, Marx studied the historical and present relationship between the classes and wrote several works, including “The German Ideology” (1845-46) and “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848). In his study of the history of society,...

Communism and Nationalism had both played a major role in weakening the ideologies of people’s thoughts, which ultimately significantly changed peoples behaviors. Due to the development of nationalism this resulted in the enlightenment, which developed the changed from an agricultural to an industrial society to...

An economic system is a system of production that deals with the distribution of goods and services within a society or a given geographic area. Two of the most popular economic systems that emerged in the last centuries, capitalism and communism, have been utilized throughout...

What Caused the Clash Between Communism and Capitalism During the Cold War? The cold war was essentially a clash between two different ideologies: Communism and Capitalism. In Capitalistic Economy the free market determines supply and demand, and prices are determined by what consumers are willing...

According to Tom Christiano’s democracy, democracy is defined as a system of government where its citizens exercise the power of voting through group decision making, characterized by equality among the participants. Citizens have the power to vote into office the public officials they want to...

Gformer reliance on British supplies (The Truman Doctrine: Containing Communism with Modernity). It can be argued that it was the combination of political and economic vulnerability that led to increased foreign intervention in Greece, which is true because the EAM/ELAS, the EDES, and the KKE...

During the late 1840s, the idea of communism had risen among the European powers. Communism is the idea of a movement that aims to overthrow the capitalist order by revolutionary means and to establish a classless society in which all goods would be socially owned....

There were many political ideologies after the war which were both good and destructive some of which had the people paranoid. Ideas like Communism, and anarchy which caused an event now known as the “Red Scare” in which the government even got involved in by...

Soviet communism shared its roots with their utopian communist ancestors regarding the orthodox family and domestic economies. Philosophers Marx and Engels have asserted that the women’s freedom should mean the elimination of private property and having an ordinary family life where the relationship between them...

Over 100 years ago Karl Marx invented communism which became influential with Russia later. He created the concept of communism as an alternative to capitalism and after Marx’s death his concept was fought for by Lenin. Lenin staged an uprising against the Russian government along...

Modern day interpretations of Thomas More’s critical and controversial Utopia have called into question his messages to sixteenth century audiences. Utopia depicts a collection of similar, ideal cities that work together in equal accordance to achieve a liberating, stress-free lifestyle. As the story has aged,...

In today’s society, the advancement of technology is due to the creation of artificial intelligence in the workplace along with the rise of many tech companies. The progression of technology has led to what many considered to be technological utopianism, a term describing how technological...

Marx’s and Engels’ book talks extensively from the Conflict perspective, which deals with the Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie. The purpose of it is to expose the viewpoint and workings of the Communist Party. The Proletariat is a group of people that work to create labor....

The gradual and horrifically strange mutation of the titular canine of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel Heart of a Dog into a ‘New Soviet Man’ provides an ideological counterpoint to the instantaneous and handsomely familiar appearance of that same model citizen in the pre-war USSR’s visual propaganda....

The Communist Manifesto (1848) clearly articulates the fundamental tenets of Communism and Marxism, expounding on historic class struggles, revolutions, counter-revolutions, inequality, industry, capitalistic exploitation, alienation and the declared war by unified workers. Set in the time of the Industrial Revolution, the manifesto outlines the role...

The Cultural Revolution was a very important event in Chinese history. The Cultural Revolution started on October 1st, 1949. It started when Mao Zedong declared China to be formally known as the People’s Republic of China or PRC. This announcement ended the civil war between...

Mao had ambitious plans, He wanted to speed up the pace of economic growth, based on industrial development and the collectivization of agriculture; and he wanted to emancipate China from the bonds of the Soviet alliance, which he found increasingly restrictive. Unfortunately, it was at...

Some claim the domino theory was the key reason for the US intervention in Asia as it halted communist progress, The Domino Theory was the belief that communism was spread from one nation to its neighbours and so on. It was based on an analogy...

The 12th of April 1927 would be the year when the GuoMinDang (GMD) would set off to try and exterminate their competition, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and setting off a brutal civil war that would last for more than a decade. However, through this...

The 20th century witnessed the rise of two opposing ideological movements: Mussolini’s fascism and Stalin’s communism. Both having a symbolic representation of their movements: Mussolini’s fascist Italy and Stalin’s communist USSR. Mussolini and Stalin both aimed to establish a totalitarian system in their country. Both...

Fear is a dangerous state of mind that can consume anyone and anything. Fear has the capacity to drive people to take extreme actions in attempts to eradicate the perceived threat at the root of their fear. The Cold War Era thrived on the western...

The country has a lot of conflict and needed someone to lead them but for Russia that leader became Joseph Stalin. When Stalin when into power he aimed to make Russia a strong communist country. He felt as if Russia needs to become more industrial...

During the American Revolution, Paul Revere warned that the Redcoats were arriving, “The British are coming! The British are coming!” Following World War II, a different red threat loomed; the Red Scare. America has gone through many unsettling events, including the Cold War between the...

In January 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushschev delivered a speech in Moscow in which he predicted that there would be a global movement towards socialism and mentioned that‘ wars of national liberation’ were instrumental in this process. He also offered Soviet support for resistance movements...