Why did the Communists gain power in 1949? In 1949, after a long lasting contest for leadership, the Communists were able to gain power. In 1900, China was ruled by the Manchu dynasty, however less than in half a century a completely new government came into power. The Qing government ha...
This brings to question why did children choose to join the Communist Party between the years of 1917 to 1936? In the Soviet Union between those years youth were educated to devoutly pledge allegiance as well as fight for a common cause, communism. Starting education at a young age, through...
Why did the new Republic of China fall into chaos? What happened to the emperor of China after the rise of communism? Why did feudalism fail in China? Why did the Chinese Empire stagnate? How did Mao transform the economy of China?
How do political parties gain power? Why was the Department of State created? How are political parties formed in Nigeria? Why did Scotland want devolution? Why is it important for a government to have legitimacy? Why was the anthropometric lab created?
‘Support for fascism and communism were extreme cases of this basic phenomenon: they flourished in the 1930s, during the mass-production revolution, which began in 1913 with Henry Ford’s assembly line and reached its full deployment in the welfare state during the post-war boom (1945–71)....
Given Taft’s opposition to foreign involvements, what was his position on the Cold War, NATO, containment of Communism, and so forth? Why is a self-described exponent of the old Right calling himself by the name of a renowned Stalinist?
land reform. Chiang Kai-shek preferred to support the existing order, a parasitic landlord class that separated itself from physical labour as soon as it could, and mostly did nothing useful. It’s true that there were few large landlords, but there were even fewer who did anything productive...
Quaden became the target of a scurrilous rumor. It claimed that he was an eighteen-year-old scammer who endorsed a deceptive story for his gain. Instantly, this rumor had people maltreating him for lying (Mikkelson, 2020). It’s as if we live in a society where deception is so common...
After all, someone really did carve a B in this woman’s cheek; that person just happened to be herself. This has very little to do with politics. What we are looking at is an act of self-harm. What really interests me here is the mirror, in which everything appears back to front...
oppression during working hours and not be exploited is one most anarchists would dismiss as a bad joke and, as a result, follow Proudhon and demand the abolition of wage labour (most take it further and advocate the abolition of the wages system as well, i.e. support libertarian communism...