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Communism is done
Yimkum
2013A2TS008P
3.11.2016
The End of History?
And this is probably true because a poor state could not have
in the right frame of mind played war games with the United
States of America during the Cold War.
2. The second is the desire for recognition told by 5Plato
himself. Men are not merely economic animals. It does
not require much thought to know that during the
totalitarian regimes of Stalin in the Soviet Union, there
was no way this could be appreciated.
Death of a symbol:
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the most important contemporary problem is that the
political form of the party does not equate with the certain
organization and the creative transformation of the communist
hypothesis.
So, having said all these the answer should be that the
problem with communism has only been our failure to
disassociate the authoritarian symbols of communism with the
event of communism? The bigger questions then are what
would be the scenario if authoritarian symbols such as Stalin
had not existed. Going by Badious philosophy, communism
might be doing well right now had it not been for such
individuals but still there is the argument from Fukuyamas
perspective of the inherent handicaps in this system that stifle
rights, recognition and to a certain extent economic progress.
Let us just wait and see what happens to China.
Citations:
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Fukuyama, Francis. Introduction to The End of History and the
Last Man. The Free Press,1992
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Fukuyama, Francis. Contents of The End of History and the Last
Man. The Free Press, 1992
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Fukiyama, Francis. Part I AN OLD QUESTION ASKED ANEW, the
Weakness of Strong States II. The End of History and The Last
Man. The Free Press.1992
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Fukuyama, Francis. Introduction to The End of History and the
Last Man. The Free Press,1992
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Li, Eric (2013,July). Eric Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems.
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0
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Yasheng Huang July 1, 2013 (12:12 p.m.), Why democracy still
wins: A critique of Eric X. Lis A tale of two political systems,
http://blog.ted.com/why-democracy-still-wins-a-critique-of-eric-x-lis-
a-tale-of-two-political-systems/
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Badiou, Alan. Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? Miguel
Abreu Gallery New York.2008.
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Badiou, Alan. Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? Miguel
Abreu Gallery New York.2008.
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Kuhn, Thomas.Part X. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.1996
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Badiou, Alan. Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed?
Miguel Abreu Gallery New York.2008.
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