POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels, Gotha Program
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Communism: flag of the ussr (hammer and sickle, gold star, color red) Equality: therefore on left of the political spectrum. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs (from the critique of the. Communists = internationalists who held that nations only benefited bourgeois while workers lacked liberty: no property, no freedom and power promised by liberal democracies. Both are anti-individualistic, as opposed to enlightenment individualism. Both view human individuals as expendable for the sake of those missions. Fascism and communism provide a sense of purpose, larger mission. Communists sought revolutionary overthrow of existing property to provide properties to all. Stalin split communist party from socialist party. Provided a model of a one-party state that hitler could follow. Communism has been a more important movement at the level of state power. Fascism is now on the margins after wii. Communism is a major power throughout the 20th century (ussr, china, cambodia)
