IV. Differences Although both Stalinist USSR and Hitler’s Nazi Germany shared some similarities in terms of the means of their rule‚ these two totalitarian regimes differed from each other in economic and social aspects. (1) Economic Institution The USSR - Collectivization The Five Year Plan started under Lenin and continued by Stalin which enabled the USSR to develop economically but at a great cost to the Soviet people. Indeed‚ Stalin strengthened the state’s existing dominance: legal private
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were both radical socialists who lived during the industrial revolution. They strongly opposed capitalism‚ the main economic system. They wrote in their book‚ the communist manifesto‚ that capitalism has always led to two groups of people opposing each other. They used examples from different times throughout history to support their theories. Some of these examples included patricians vs plebeians‚ and lords vs serfs. During the industrial revolution‚ a time of rapid
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and cyberpunk is filled with potent imagery and symbolism‚ thoughtful use of lighting‚ colour and film techniques like camera angles to evoke his futuristic world. When exploring the texts Frankenstein and Blade Runner‚ the most dominant similarity between the texts is the questioning of unchecked scientific progress and the limits of these advancements before human nature is threatened. In Frankenstein Shelley presents us with a protagonist who‚ from a very early age is curious to the basis of
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The personages from The Jungle expended most of their wages paying debts and house insurances. Socialism was the economy system that ruled at that time where only wealthy individuals and industry owners. Those had total control over the low class people (immigrants) and abused their superiority. For example‚ in The Jungle Ona confesses that her boss
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Fascism was an totalitarian political movement that developed after 1919 as a reaction against the political and social changes brought about by World War 1 and the spread of socialism and communism. It flourished between 1919 and 1945 in several countries‚ mainly Germany‚ Spain‚ Italy‚ and Japan. Fascism is a form of totalitarian dictatorship that had ideals such as extreme nationalism‚ economic self sufficiency and military strength. The dictators abolished all opposition against them and basically
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Does Capitalism‚ in theory‚ exploit workers? Why/why not? Give evidence both from Marx’s text AND from your own independent research. Capitalism is a system based on exploitation. “Exploitation is the use of someone or something in an unjust or cruel manner.” Mostly it is used to refer economic exploitation that is‚ using another person’s labor without offering them adequate compensation. According to Karl Marx‚ a German economist and social theorist‚ Marxist theory states capitalist class as
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However‚ in spite of the many differences‚ there are similarities between the two stories. Romeo and Juliet and “Teen Couple Executed by their Parents…for daring to fall in love‚” both involve the deaths of the couples all happening at a young age‚ all of them dying before the age of 19 before any of their parents died. Throughout both stories a common factor is that the couples were forced to make adult decisions about their lives and love lives; while‚ the adults around them were making many poor
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Capitalism is a financially profitable‚ nonsustainable aberration in human development as it doesn’t completely conform to its own accounting principles and liquidates its capital and calls it income (Hawkins & Lovins‚ 1999‚ p. 5). Though this is true‚ the natural resources and living systems‚ as well as the social and cultural systems that are the basis of human capital‚ must be categorized as valuables in a system of natural capitalism due to the neglection of assigning any value to the largest
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The slave laborers were exhausted. They lived in camps infested with disease. The Nazis used gas tanks to murder the weak. There are many similarities as well as differences between The Holocaust and The Crucible. The Holocaust can be compared to The Crucible for a number of reasons. In the beginning of the Crucible‚ a scene told the audience how a teenaged girl‚ Abigail‚ helped her employer‚ John Proctor‚ commit adultery. She knew she had grudges toward some people‚ including her mistress‚ because
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Similarities between Creon and Antigone In Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ Creon was engaged in a conflict with Oedipus’ daughter Antigone. Creon and Antigone did not see eye-to-eye the entire play due to extreme differences. Creon and Antigone had many similarities despite their enormous discrepancies. Having as many differences as they did‚ it made them uniquely similar in numerous ways. The similarities that Antigone and Creon shared were independence‚ loyalty toward their views‚ cruelty and arrogance
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