Monday, April 24, 2017

Chapter 21 


  • The communist revolutions in Russia and China were premature revolutions, and had Marx seen them he might well have predicted their failure. 
  • Marx predicted that the continued exploitation of the under class would create great resentment and would lead to a revolution against the bourgeoisie. 
  • He predicted that capitalism would inevitably be replaced by communism. 
  • China had entered the new millennium as a rapidly growing economic power with an essentially capitalist economy presided over by an intact and powerful communist party.


How did Russia and China differ from Marx Predictions on the way their communist societies developed?

  • industrialism over socialism
China:

  • Totalitarian: total control over social/economic/political (everything)
    • import and export
    • supply and demand

How did communist societies treat women/feminism?

  • laws for equality
    • work
    • education
  • rights------>
    •  marriage
    • divorce
    • pregnancy
    • abortion
  • feminism was more advanced 
  • the suffering was equal


What was the "Cold War"?


  • A clash of very different beliefs and ideology
  • state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc
Was it really cold? Is it really war?

  • no direct attacks
    • not "hot"; as in use of force 
  • not really a war more like a clash or tension
    • who had the cooler toy
MAD: MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION

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