Phase 3: Achievement of utopia. This phase has never been attained because it requires that all noncommunists be destroyed in order for the Communist Party to achieve supreme equality. In a Marxist utopia, everyone would happily share property and wealth, free from the restrictions that class-bas...
Jinxiu has a stone tablet from 1951, inscribed with a unity pact signed by local ethnic communities under the auspices of the central government. As early as 1934, the Red Army during its Long March had introduced an ethnic policy in Guangxi, calling for equality and solidarity among all eth...
Jinxiu has a stone tablet from 1951, inscribed with a unity pact signed by local ethnic communities under the auspices of the central government. As early as 1934, the Red Army during its Long March had introduced an ethnic policy in Guangxi, calling for equality and solidarity among all eth...
Today, communism and socialism exist in China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos and Vietnam—although in reality, a purely communist state has never existed. Such countries can be classified as communist because in all of them, the central government controls all aspects of the economic and political sy...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, on the other hand, is an entirely different kind of public monument. It uses stark simplicity — a black, semi-reflective wall etched with names — to honor and mourn the sacrifice of the nearly 60,000 American men and women who died in the Vietnam War. ...
Even so, in the case of the Vietnam War, journalists still did not challenge the overarching Cold War framework: as Hallin argues, “As intense as it was, however, the conflict between the administration and the press over Vietnam must be kept in perspective. It was a conflict over tactic...
The American-Vietnamese War–1956-1975—The Communist North Vietnamese and the southern Viet Cong engaged in a long war to overthrow the pro-American government of South Vietnam. The U.S. and other allied nations sent troops to aid the Saigon regime. The last U.S. combat troops left in...
Work for the civil rights of an oppressed group is always an ongoing process, and the Stonewall riots were just one part of the long and difficult process of expanding the rights of LGBTQ people in the U.S. But the riots are considered a pivotal and instrumental event in that process. Ne...
It also delayed a French return to northern Indochina long enough for the DRV to get what it needed to keep France from ever reestablishing full control over Vietnam. Subsequent French efforts to regain full control led to war at the end of 1946. The commencement of American aid in 1950 ...
task. But one of the most important reasons is often overlooked, underreported and certainly under-appreciated: the Party's personnel system. This is the purview of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, which has long operated outside the glare of the media or publ...