Chapter 12-- Promise & Performance in the Command Economy Flashcards

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after this, much of the world’s population came under the dominance of governments that hindered the growth of free markets

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Bolshevik Revolution in 1917

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the promotion of one’s own nation and government regardless of moral considerations

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nationalism e

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an economic system based upon public ownership and governmental control of the production and distribution of nearly all national resources

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Communism

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Father of Communism

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Karl Marx

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published by Marx in which he outlined classic Communist philosophy and described the steps he felt were needed to establish Communism worlwide

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The Communist Manifesto

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formulated the basic ideas of Communism and advocated the overthrow of free market

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Karl Marx

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Marx’s famous book

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Das Kapital

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property owners that needed to be overthrown in order to achieve Communism according to Marx

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bourgeois

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the common working class that that would be strictly ruled by officials who would act on behalf of the people according to Marx

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proletariat

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the perfect society

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utopia

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the professed aim of MArxist economics is

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complete equality of condition

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