Communism Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Both the theologian James Cone and the existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre looked at the world and were unsatisfied with the status quo they experienced around them. This dissatisfaction led them to know ideas and perspectives with which to see the world. These ideas resonated with others, which gained them the notoriety they have today as important philosophical/theological figures. The Public Broadcasting service (PBS) did a profile of James Cone in its series “This far by faith” which explains how the social and political tides at the time shaped his view of the world and his ideas for how he thought ...

In his 1994 book The Massacre at El Mozote, Mark Danner offers a clear description of the the massacre of hundreds of men, women and children by the El Salvadoran army, who were trained by American consultants and military advisors. He also provides excellent background and analysis of the political background that encouraged the massacre. At the time, the story of the massacre was covered-up, ignored or minimized by the right-wing anti-communist El Salvadoran and U.S. governments for political reasons. There were also practical diplomatic, communication and journalistic obstacles and mistakes which made the story ambiguous, opaque and hard to ...

According to the Communist manifesto the happenings in the future is mainly influenced by what happens in the present. Specters are things that are dead and this can be evidenced from the situations brought forth by Derrida in the Communist Manifesto (Bartlett 62). Spectrality can be a haunting phenomenon in that it can spur an individual into action mostly on the political aspect. For instance, Marx came to identify that communism should be considered dead like a specter in order to replace it with what was considered to be a living communism. This shows that this specter from the past is bent ...

“America” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in the 1958. The poem revolves around the life of the speaker, who feels overwhelmed by life in U.S. Specifically, the speaker is dissatisfied with the level of capitalism in the country, which makes him admire his communist upbringing. He also conveys his admiration for Marxism. Although there are several literary strategies (put forward by different theorists) on the best means to interpret a text, none would be more appropriate than Michael Foucault’s in analyzing Ginsberg’s poem.
In his articles “The Archaeology of Knowledge” and “What is an Author?” Michael ...

Communism is an idea, an ideology that strives to establish a classless society in which every individual is the same, based on common ownership of production. It can be seen as a branch of the broader socialist movement. However, communism as a political goal is the superior form of future social organization. Communism is a term commonly used to clarify the embodiment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the political and economic power of the Communist Party regime.
At the end of the 19th century, Marxist theory has encouraged the formation socialistic parties across Europe; although later their ideological platforms were ...

- In an essay, explain the process of global decolonization starting with India in 1947. Discuss whether the great colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands "gave" freedom to their colonial subjects - in this regard think of contrasting "struggles" like the French in Indochina and the British in West Africa. Describe the temporary approaches of the British and French to keep their colonies tied to them. Finally explain how the United States and the Cold War effected decolonization.
In India, the nonviolent methods of Gandhi like the famous Salt March of 1930 were instrumental in ...

POLITICAL HISTORY

What is the relationship between country size and trade and will existence of many small countries promote or inhibit trade?
Country size is a highly relevant factor as far as trade is concerned. A large country will entail more internal trade. Presence of many small countries will promote external trade as the small countries will seek goods they do not produce (Palmer, p.134). The existence of countries in large units will promote both internal and external trade as these countries will be able to produce a wider variety of goods for example North American countries.

Definitions of communism socialism and capitalism

Communism is a socialist movement based ...

John Locke wrote ‘The Letter Concerning Toleration’ among all people. At the time, there were diversities exhibited by people especially in matters regarding religions and faith. The letter called for toleration, bearing that Catholicism was taking root and becoming strong in Europe, especially in England. Due to the fact that there were many religions in the world, and all of them claimed to be the most powerful, and have a majority of followers, Locke saw that the only way to a peaceful coexistence would be through toleration of each other, regardless of which faith a person subscribed. Christianity was ...

Part 1 Question 1

The Vietnam is also commonly called the American War in Vietnam (Rosenberg, 2012). This war was fought between 1959 and April 30, 1975. Most of the American citizens were opposed to the war and they felt that America should not have gotten involved in the muddle. They felt that there was no need as to why the nation could lose much of its resources and soldiers in fighting a war which, in their eyes, was not bound to deliver any benefits to the nation. For the purpose of this paper, it is important to look at the cause of the ...

It often happens that the reader experiences some sort of uneasy fear along with the longing of going deeper in the text and reading between the lines. This uneasiness comes from the desire to avoid seeing more in the work than the author designed originally. However, literary criticism allows to appreciate literary works beyond just admiration of the form and the elements of sense which lie on the surface. A mindful approach to a literary text allows to go beyond the obvious and uncover sometimes small, but usually very specific elements. These elements add up considerably to the overall ...

“IDOL” 1979

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Collection of the artist
Exhibited:
Asia Society Hong Kong (May 15 – September 1, 2013).
“Blooming in the Shadows” China Institute Gallery New York (September 15 – December 11, 2011).
“Wang Keping, Works from 1979-2006” organized by He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (Oct 25th until Nov 23rd, 2008).
National Art Gallery, Beijing (August, 1980)
“The Stars Outdoor Art Exhibition” Beijing (27 September, 1979)
Born in Beijing, China in 1949, Wang Keping became one among the most influential modern-day Chinese. He has been a provocative artist during the late 1970s and the 1980s, as he called for protests that ...

Introduction

Since the republics in the Soviet Union proclaimed independence in 1991, there have been significant changes concerning the ethno cultural, and demographic situation. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the major reason behind the creation of the Russian Diaspora. More than twenty-five million Russian citizens found themselves in the midst of newly and freshly created states, which were often redesigned as their new political dwellings (Beissinger, 2008). After some time, the displaced Russians were compelled to either assume a fresh political identity, or to return to the Russian Federation, which was newly created. Assuming fresh political identity would ...

Introduction

While this crime has happened decades ago, it still haunts the minds of investigators, experts, and historians. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the mysteries that has remained unraveled until these days. Myriads of conspiracy theories linking together the CIA, FBI, KGB, Cuba, and Lyndon B. Johnson, were the result of, as experts admitted, an ambiguous and negligent official report. The assassination of JFK was particularly sudden and shocking for the American people, which required a close and meticulous examination. On November, 1963 President of the U.S. Lyndon B. Johnson has created a special commission for ...

WANG KEPING (b.1949)

“IDOL” 1979
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WOOD

57x30x15
Collection of the artist
Exhibited:
Asia Society Hong Kong (May 15 – September 1, 2013).
“Blooming in the Shadows” China Institute Gallery New York (September 15 – December 11, 2011).
“Wang Keping, Works from 1979-2006” organized by He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (Oct 25th until Nov 23rd, 2008).
National Art Gallery, Beijing (August, 1980)
“The Stars Outdoor Art Exhibition” Beijing (27 September, 1979)
Wang Keping was born in 1949 in Beijing, China, and is one of the most significant contemporary Chinese sculptors. He is known as one of the founders of the ‘Stars’ group (Xingxing), which ...

“For Marxism, literature does not exist in some timeless, aesthetic realm as an object to be passively contemplated. Rather, like all cultural manifestations, it is a product of the socioeconomic and hence ideological conditions of the time and the place in which it was written, whether or not the author intended it so. Because human beings are themselves products of their socioeconomic and ideological environment, it is assumed that authors cannot help but create works that embody ideology in some form.”
-Tyson, Critical Theory Today.
War of the Worlds, the novel about the Martian invasion on earth is ...

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Freire

Introduction:
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire is one of those classic texts where the author attempts to examine the relationship between teacher and student who ends up as being simply an absorbent of knowledge in every respect. Basically the book is based on Freire’s own experiences in attempting to teach Brazilian children to read and write in conditions which are rather repressive as well as being compared to Marxist education. The author does not mince his words in this respect and for him the situation is one which is rather problematic as children who come ...

What has been the evolution of development theories since the “linear stages” period? Have these theories added value to the understanding/explaining the causes of underdevelopment? Give reasons for/against your position.

Among the many fundamental questions that continue to confound economists today, is the issue, what are the causes of economic growth and decline? Economic theories have emerged to locate, understand, and thus, develop the reasons behind the successes and failures of economies. While the original answers for this question were in the form of simple theories, nowadays, the complexity of this question has been better understood as these theories ...

C. Wright Mills; The Sociological Imagination p. 355-358 in Lemert, C. (Ed.) Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings. 3nd ed. (37-41) (2004) Boulder, CO.: Westview Press.

“Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of continent-wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a person is employed or unemployed; when the rate of investment goes up or down, a person takes new ...

Totalitarian political system is based on the unlimited authority and power to ‘rule’ every dimension of the social and even private life of the individuals, which is in direct contrast of democracy. Such governments maintain their rule by regulating a comprehensive propaganda campaign that is communicated through the television channels and print controlled by the state. Public at large is the major party that has to go through the tyrannical control of the state over economy, media, surveillance, and freedom of speech and thought.
The use of terror is common and widespread in totalitarian states, to keep the opinion ...

IHRM

Introduction
Firms that do not have the quality human resource face challenges in managing its operations globally and in attracting quality human resource (Farndale, Scullion, and Sparrow, 2010). Therefore it is critical for firms to manage their human resource. For this reason, the practices of human resource management are decisive in the success of the organization. As firms expand their operations to different countries, organizations have to consider a lot more factors than they have to when they are managing an organization that operates in only one country (Adler, 2002). Therefore, the role of international human resource management practices ...

A Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy.
A Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy.
U.S. foreign policy is directed by the need for homeland security and defense. It also seeks to protect its national interests overseas. Non-intervention in global affairs, while maximizing U.S. interests had been the constant factor in U.S. Foreign policy ever since the country’s birth. The United States interacted with foreign countries like France and Spain to counter the British, whom it distrusted for a long time after independence. Foreign relations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were also limited to expansion ...

China’s market potential indicator is the best compared to that of the countries in Asia. The current account for china has about $3306028 73.459. The country is always associated with high economic growth rate due to the fact that, its speculated account favors it in competition with the other countries hence becoming the best performer in the field of economy compared to the countries in Asia. In Europe, Switzerland is ranked on the top on the basis of market potential indicator. Japan has a very strong economy compared to some other developed countries such and France and United ...

In politics, one of the main problems found by most leaders or public servants is to weigh ends and means. Sometimes, even in the most homogeneous societies, where most people would tend to share a common view on what ends their government should pursue, people will often disagree on what policy should the government adopt to meet their demands.
For example, many people would agree that poverty should not exist on this day and age. Some might say that the solution is to take part of the wealth of the richest portion of society, which would be discriminative and ...

English: Critical Thinking

The first reproach is an invitation to the people to dwell in quietism of despair as if all solutions to a problems are barred, all actions in this world would be declared ineffective. This is a lead to the contemplative philosophy and as the contemplative philosophy is a luxury, this is another bourgeois philosophy and the reproach made by the communist. Another reproach that is ignominious in the human situation for neglecting things that possess charm and beauty and belongs to the brighter side of human nature. A man is considered in isolation in both the reproaches and the reason as per ...

Question 1

Most non-governmental organizations are movements that are aimed at improving the welfare of individuals. These imply that they improve democratic conditions of the nation by either forcing the government to implement some actions or rejecting others.

Question two

On health this organizations play a large role in providing protection measures mostly through vaccination and immunization on the world’s affected region. The donation of condoms in an effort to reduce spread of HIV by these organizations is a critical example. In an effort to reduce poverty several governments seeks assistance from these organization

Question three

This is a type of government in which the power of ...

Introduction

Juvenile court system is a parallel criminal system provided for juvenile delinquents. Criminal justice system realized that juvenile offenders have special needs as compared to adult criminals in that they are young, and have great future to pursue; therefore, the main objective of the juvenile justice system is to rehabilitate them. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) asserts that, the objective of the juvenile justice system is to “encourage a process of behavioral change by helping the child or young person to feel accountable for his or her actions and understand their impact on others, and foster integration ...

In Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the philosopher denotes the main problems with private ownership, political economics and capitalist society. In short, those with property are the bourgeoisie, and those without property are the workers - the proletariat. Workers are frequently impoverished and alienated from their own world, most due to their inability to relate to the products that he creates. By making these products for other people, he is giving of himself to others without getting anything in return; he does not own any of the world that he gives his life to. Work is ...

Arguably, the Great Depression was the worst international crisis in the 20th century. This crisis began in America following the decline in the value of the capital market. This was on the fourth day of September, 1929; a day that later came to be referred to as the black Tuesday. During the great depression, many political leaders held different ideas on the way out of the appalling economic situation (Boezi, 2005). The need for an economically pragmatic leader saw Franklin Roosevelt elected to power. The leader, whose election was a sign of relief, had many philosophies relating to the social, financial ...

Parenting forms quite an integral part as far as the upbringing of a child is concerned. The environment under which a child is brought up and the parenting style in place greatly influences the behavior as well the emotions of a child. Collectivism and individualism are cultural models that have been seen through out the years to have a major impact on the style of parenting (Triandis and Harry 2001). Parenting styles that young children are exposed to in different cultures and different scenarios in their stages as they grow determines their perceptions about life and how they relate with other people. Culture ...

According to Peter Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society (1993) [Lustig], the communist analysis on the capitalistic system consists in concentration on the thesis that wage-laborers are being subjugated by wealth holders and in return obtain only part of the profits of their labor; and with the accumulation of capital the dissimilarity of earnings between laboring poor and non-laboring rich tends to boost. The Marxist resolution in this case suggest confiscate the capitalists’ property and expose them to the same situation as wage-laborers, so that everybody can turn to an employed person and get paid according to his skills. The general work ...

Communication Styles across Ethnic Groups

Introduction
The paper reviews three articles that are aimed at analyzing communication across ethnic groups. The three articles reviewed are based on: non-verbal communication, contrasting communication styles, and strategies for therapist to view diverse people as individuals.

Non Verbal Communication styles across ethnic groups

The article by Vrij, Dragt, & Koppelaar (1992) is very useful in examining the various non-verbal communication styles across ethnic groups. The article tries to discover why there is high employment amongst ethnic minorities in Western European countries. The case of Netherlands is highlighted and it was discovered that the Dutch (minority) were more likely to be employed compared to ethnic minorities— ...

World War 1 began in July 1914 and ended in November 1918. This war began in Europe and later spread to the rest of the world. The key players in the war were from the European nations. They included two camps. The triple alliance included Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Germany with the opponents, the triple entente, including Russia, France, and Britain (Sanders et al., 2006). The war began because of an assassination of an Austro-Hungarian citizen (Sanders et al., 2006). A Serbian activist assassinated Franz Ferdinand. Hungary then asked Germany for support to attack Serbia and then Russia decided to ...