Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Communism- Taylor, TJ, Parker


A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/communism


  • Also known as “Revolutionary Proletarian Socialism” or “Marxism”
  • Two primary writings:
    • The Communist Manifesto
    • Principles of Communism


  • The Communist Manifesto- 1848
    • Author- Karl Marx
    • Recognized as one of the most revered political manuscript
    • Used by the Communist League
    • Contained Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels theories on nature of society and politics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto

http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/communism.htm

  • Principles of Communism
    • Author- Fiedrich Engels
    • A compilation of Marx and Engles own idea


Communism Ideas:
  • Replace private property and an economy that makes profit and change it to public ownership.
    • Public Owner Ship- a part or whole of something owned by the state and then controlled by a public authority.
  • Present Communist Countries
    • China
    • Cuba
    • North Korea
    • Laos
    • Vietnam
  • Past Communist Countries
    • Afghanistan
    • Albania
    • Angola
    • Benin
    • Bulgaria
    • Cambodia
    • Czechoslovakia
    • Hungary
    • East Germany
    • Ethiopia
    • Mongolia
    • Mozambique
    • Poland
    • Romania
    • Somalia
    • South Yemen
    • Soviet Union
    • Yugoslavia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state
    • Communist Leaders:
    Gracchus Babeuf

    Karl Marx

    Friedrich Engles

    Peter Kroptkin

    Herman Gorter

    Rosa Lexemburg

    Antonio Gramsci

    Vladimir Lenin

    Leon Trotsky

    Joesph Stalin

    Nikita Khruschev

    Leonid Brezhnev

    Mao Zedong

    Juang Qing

    Lin Biao

    Enver Hoxha

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Che Guevara

    Fidel Castro

    Josip Tito





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