political (defeat of the right –Bukharin), • Ideological (NEP hated by communists; class war against the kulaks; socialism in one country), • Strategic (i.e. defence of Russia)? Conclusion– Economic reasons provided one set of motives –but there were others. Were they connected? Which motives were most decisive?
This disagreement arose because of a profound difference in their beliefs of the role of the party. The Bolsheviks believed that the revolution should be organised by a small group of dedicated and skilled revolutionaries who should lead the party and make all the decisions. On the contrary, the Mensheviks believed that the Party should be a mass party with as many working class members as possible. They argued it should be run democratically, with the members electing the leaders and deciding on its policies. For Lenin, the party was to be a group prepared to seize power as soon as possible yet on the other hand, for Martov, the main purpose of the party was to spread propaganda and raise the level of consciousness of the proletariat.
Gordon Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution provided an interesting and insightful view into the changes that were wrought by the struggle to create a republic on North American soil. Wood’s central thesis was that the political reform movement ushered in by the Revolution caused a deep social revolution, which changed the nature of American society and had a powerful impact on everything that the United States has undertaken throughout its entire existence. According to Wood, the Revolution caused America to run through several different phases of development, moving from the social organization of a monarchical society to that of a republican society and finally ending up as a democratic society that ultimately distressed many of the Revolution’s leaders. Wood claimed that the political reorganization in America changed how citizens viewed one another and had a subtle, but deep and profound change on their social relationships. Further, the American Revolution was a radical movement that changed the world in a way that shook it to its foundations by challenging the concept of aristocracy in the Western World that had existed for two thousand years and completely changed the political and social landscape in the United States and the world forever.
Taxation without representation was the main reason for their rebellion. The thirteen colonies established a body of government to form individual self-governing states. The British sent over troops to regain direct rule. The colonies fought back which caused the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence. The American Revolution was the result of a series of social, political and intellectual unrest.
He advised workers to form unions that would overthrow the middle class. 6. He believed there were four steps to achieving communism: feudalism (serfs serving lords, working the land for nothing), capitalism (money exchanged for goods and services), socialism (in which everything is owned by the government, which oversees a classless society), and finally communism (a utopian
Then there were the Viet Cong, insurgents who were aided by the North Vietnamese. Finally, there was the United States who sent troops to prevent the South Vietnamese government from collapsing. North Vietnam was run by communist Ho Chi Minh. The communists were trying to force South Vietnam into communism and anyone who disagreed was killed. People in South Vietnam were the enemy of North Vietnam because they were
In addition, we will examine the impact of decolonization, in which process Asians, Africans, and the people of Latin America created new types of politics and struggles based on their own traditions in interaction with not only the cultures of their colonizers, but an emerging world culture. The state and heritage of the world's peoples, as well as our present conditions, will round out our study. Are we moving into a new world of diversity and opportunity for all, or is that ideal as far away as ever? Benjamin Barber describes the present as a struggle of "jihad versus McWorld"; in so doing, he highlights the difficulty of strengthening democracy when the world faces increased tribal and religious identification on the one hand, and the formation of a homogenizing corporate mass culture on the
There's tons of argument about the authenticity of signing statements and what it meant, and that controversy got caught up in the separate debate about the scope of executive power. A signing statement is a written pronouncement issued by the President of the United States upon the signing of a bill of law. They are usually printed along with the bill in the United States Code Congressional and Administrative news. The effect the President’s signing statement had on the torture ban left the executive branch and secretary of State in the dark. It showed that speed was more important than any other value.
Nixon was quoted in de-classified CIA documents as saying “make their economy scream (in Chile to) prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him.” The United States main goal was to get rid of the Marxist government and they had two approaches. The first was Track 1. Track 1 was to persuade Chilean congress to confirm Jorge Allesandri as
Does that commit you to oppose the Paris Commune of 1870 or the Hungarian revolution of 1956? In Salvador, the rebels want to overthrow the President, a Christian Democrat. In Nicaragua, the rebels want to overthrow the President, a Marxist-Leninist. To judge rebels by who they are and what they fight for, and against, is not a political morality of convenience. It is simple