Communism

  • extreme version of socialism

  • violence, force everything into extreme equality

    • still inequality in socialism (correct through social safety net)

  • influenced by rousseau but takes to extreme

  • everything controlled by state, 0 private enterprise

  • everything bureaucracy

  • everyone’s needs met before wants of people

  • England mentioned oxford

MARX

violence

spontaneous revolution

anti-religious

  • believes reinforces hierarchy + control

no private property

  • even equipment

  • “From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs”

  • not really worried about individual rights and freedoms (more about economics and wealth distribution)

internationalism

  • revolution was international movement of overthrowing elites that suppress rights of workers

  • wants all workers in every country to overthrow the bourgeoisie

class

  • higher classes benefit themselves over others, he would be opposed to Burke because it allows for class

believed people were good → would help others not not just themselves

proletariat → workers

bourgeoisie → owners

. communism

scientific socialism

capitalism

mercantile system (imperialism

feudal economy

tradition

surplus-value theory

capital

/ \ → dictatorship of the proletariat

land labour

  • reactionary ideology to industrial revolution

  • rebuke utopian socialism in addressing inequalities

central planned economy (command economy) → total direction and development of a nation’s economy is planned and administered by ts government

  • government control of what is produced, how, who gets what

  • equality as the goal

  • public ownership of the means of production

  • collectivism and cooperation

  • universal social programs

  • government regulations for societal protection

  • decisions based on ____

STRENGTHS

  • equitable distribution of income - no economic “losers”

  • planning makes for a reduced waste of resources

  • steady, even economic growth

    • limited unemployment or inflation

  • essential goods produced before non-essentials

WEAKNESSES

  • requires huge bureaucracy to run

  • inflexible - slow to react to change

  • limited choice for consumers

  • limited incentive for efficiency or innovation

  • what will be produced → what society needs most

  • will be produced t benefit most people

  • people who need will receive products

bolsheviks major communist party

read the things

collectivization

  • kulaks → group from richer peasants class that resisted the idea of collectivization

    • dealt with brutally

The Holodomor

  • if price started to drop, started to sell more grain

  • 6-7 million died to famine

  • wanted to crust Ukranian nationalism, used famine to break spirit of people

  • Stalin created famine, exported all grain and famers starved to death

the great purge

  • stalin removed all opposition

  • purged all high ranking military people

show trials

  • non aggression pact with nazis

  • thought hitler was friend

  • predetermined trials → scared people

  • gulag → labour camp

Stalin

  • totalitarian state → rigid and controlled

  • better to be feared (gulag, 5 year plan, collectivization)