Marxism People Flashcards

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Russian Marxist ruler who said “one death is a tragedy a million is just a statistic

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Joseph Stalin

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Spanish American writer ; “those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it

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George Santayana

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British statesman : “when bad men combine , the good must associate : else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle

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Edmund Burke

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Historian :the development of the United States was an enlightened move away from communist ideals and toward greatest justice and equal opportunity

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Federer

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History professor : the greatest corruption in American history came from government intervention in the economy, not from the free market

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Burton Folsom

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The Hoover institution:socialism is the former Soviet Union

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Arnold beichman

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Feminist author , Violence and pain in the world are the result of overemphasis on planning for the future

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Bell hooks

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German philosopher “thesis>antithesis>synthesis. Conflict creates a spiral way of thinking

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Hegel

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German philosopher : in our evolutionary conception of the universe , there is absolutely no room for either a creator or a ruler

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Frederick Engels

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Russian writer : the problem of communism is not an economic problem . Th problem of communism is the problem of atheism

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Fyodor dostoyevsky

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11
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Cuban dictator

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Fidel Castro

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12
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Ruthless overseer of 1st Cuban prison camp

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Che Guevara

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13
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Khmer Rouge , Cambodian dictator

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Pol pot

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