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WHAT IS COMMUNISM?
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The elimination of private property and markets - leads to more equality as eventually the state withers away
because it no longer needs to exist because do not need to protect the rich Emphasis on Class struggle - priortize the lower class as the rich exploit the poor in order to get ahead in capitalizsm Vanguard Party - led by intellectuals who know theideas of marx as workers do not have the time or intelligence to see how they are being exploited so they lead the revolution |
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Base and Superstructure
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Economics is the core of human relationsbase is the means of production and the relationshuip of production (i.e. technology and class) Superstrucutre: the relatinship of values/norms of society base determines the condition (superstructure)
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False consciousness
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Superstructure blinds us to to the truth of explotiation religion for xample prevents people from takng action against the state
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Marx and development of histroy
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Histroy has been an ongoing strubble between existing order (thesis) challenge to that order (antithesis) and social economic and political change to that orders (synthesis)
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Marx's view on feudalism
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It is built upon means of proudction: agaraniaism primary class: serfdom and aristrocracy superstructure: divine rights of kings
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Marx's view on capitalism
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Means of production: technology and machinery primary classes: proletariet and bourgeoise superstrucutre: democracy and nationalism
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Lenin's innovation to communism
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Vanguard party must lead proletarietalliance of the workers and the peasants result instead of government withering away it acutally becomes stronger
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Mao's innovation
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Weak capitalist state so used the rural and peasants
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Communist party rule
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Government is controlled by communist rule = the state is embedded throughout society and all executive positions are held by communists. there is a small vanguard party nomenklatura: is the ideas that politically sensitvie jobs are held by party members
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COMMUNIST POLITICAL ECONOMY
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Private property eliminated and markets eliminated government control of labor (assigned a job) communist economy - 1 big firm central planning where the government decides how much to produce for how much and where so the goods and services are not distributed by markets but by the state
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Societal institions under communism
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Communism has monopoly on all forms of govenrment including civil society. any organization outside the govt is illegal and potential harmful - there are some organized groups by the government (women federation in china) but govenrment uses them as transmission belts to send out the belies that they shoudl be follwin gnationalism in ethnicity is downplayed and advocate a communist intenrationalism suppress relgion
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Political institions in china
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Nat'l Party Congress: meets every 5 years and is very large they discuss changes in constition they selectCentral committee about 200 pppl and meet once every 1-2 years and selects the Politburo and the 9 members of PSC (standing committee) are the top poltical leaders of china they meet weekly headed by the general secretary of hte party (president who is currently Jintao) governing cabinent
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Natgional peoples congress
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Legistlative body which is parallel to the natl party congress meet once a year not much activity give summaries of their sectors highest organ of the state govenrmetn the
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The state council
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Executie branch led by the PM who is currently jiabao
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Collapse of communism; why did it fail?
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New CW: the su was unable to keep up with the US spending and when the US was investing in the arms race, Gorbachev could not keep up because it was too expensive (1980s)Economic Stagnation: lost legtimately New political leadership: Gorbachev came into power and he wanted to reform, this same reform undermined the communist rule. Glasnost (openness) and perestrokia (eocnomc reform) shows the flaws in the system
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