influence of the National Liberation Front (NFL). The most important reason as to why the United States became involved in Vietnam was the long term cause of the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory was the belief that once one country had fallen to communism‚ its neighbours would do the same. It was devised by John Foster Dulles‚ the US Secretary of State‚ during the 1950s. The Domino Theory would be a an obstacle for the Americans if they were to win the Cold War‚ as they had to keep as few countries
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replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. Most revolutions are developed from philosophical ideas. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Chinese Revolution of 1949 were developed from the idea of Karl Marx‚ communism. Communism is the advocating of war‚ leading to a society in which all property is owned publicly and each person works and is paid according to their abilities. Although both based off a philosophical idea they were widely different and changed history
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farm and started taking care of themselves. Orwell employs the ideology of animalism to allude to communism‚ this allegory between communism and animal societies is central to the text since the animal’s most important law is “all animals are equal” (Orwell 90).The issues that Orwell attempts to portray in Animal Farm can be considered to some extent representatives of the failings of communism. Communism is a structure that promotes equality‚
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seemed to be the one of spreading ideology to communism by his speeches‚ slogans and other forms of propaganda. On the other hand‚ Trotsky was more of a realist. He took care of the action the Bolsheviks had to take in order to be successful. He‚ assumingly‚ led the Bolshevik riots in the July days and defeated the Provisional Government. He was also the one to have led the Bolsheviks to victory in the Civil War. Lenin’s ideal way of spreading communism was mainly by brainwashing the Russian people
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in the 1920’s USSR. The NEP‚ abbreviation for the ‘New Economic Policy’‚ was a number of policies deployed by Vladimir Lenin to improve the conditions of post war USSR. The NEP replaced the system of War Communism which was used between 1918 and 1921. The main motive for the War Communism policy was to support and supply the Red Army with food and weapons during the Russian Civil War. However‚ after the war the country was in turmoil and the majority of the Soviet Union’s population suffered hardship
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Liberalism was a philosophical system that produced capitalism as an economic system‚ Marxism was a reflection of the problems that existed in a capitalistic society. Therefore‚ Marxism was the idea behind two new economic systems‚ socialism and communism. Liberalism is the idea of universal human rights‚ equality and the protection of private property. Capitalism grew from this private ownership of capital and machines and has become the dominant economic system today. On the other hand‚ Marxism
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Karl Marx Was Right We can’t say Karl Marx didn’t warn us: capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. In their chase for ever higher profits‚ the capitalists shed workers for machines. The higher return on capital means that the share of profits rises and the share of wages falls‚ and soon the mass of the population isn’t earning enough to buy the goods capitalism produces. And that’s exactly what’s been happening over the past four years of the Great Recession: ever increasing income
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However‚ this is just the beginning of a long journey to establish communism. Because once the ‘dictatorship’ of the proletariat is installed‚ the working class will go towards the total abolition of social differences. Ideally‚ the communist society will not be presented as a structured by class social organism‚ but as an
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the Cold War where capitalism just triumphed over communist Russia. Once the western world successfully promoted capitalism and democracy over communism‚ the battle essentially is over according to Fukuyama. Liberal‚ pluralist democracies withstood the threat of communism. Although this view has decent general understanding of the battle between communism and liberal‚ capitalist democracies‚ it lacks a diverse worldview. Fukuyama has a narrow vision of the world as either democratic and liberal
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“The Fog of War” documentary highlights the experiences of Robert McNamara as the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson. The film covers McNamara’s involvement in World War 2‚ the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ and the Vietnam War with regards to his position and the lessons he’s learned after being put into the century’s most conflicting situations. McNamara implements these lessons into the historical wartime occurrences in the U.S. he’s able to witness
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