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Rejections of Liberalism Flashcards

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What is Marxism?

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A theory that highlights the inherent flaws within capitalism and a communist revolution

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What is a communist revolution?

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Where a capitalist society will ultimately result in a communism and a socialist society where workers will overthrow rich owners and their company, which is now run by the workers who are getting paid by THEIR production

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Who was Karl Marx

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The father of communism; denied capitalism and exploitation even though he’s never ruled

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Does communism and socialism support women?

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Yes.

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What is communism?

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An ideology believing that through revolution, property is owned by the community and people share the production of goods and the benefits of production

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What is socialism?

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The ideology based on the collectivist values in political, economic and social life

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What is a Proletariat?

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a term used by Karl Marx to refer to the class of industrial workers whose only asset is the labor that they sell to an employer.

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What is a Bourgeoisie?

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a French word that refers to the social class that evolved in Europe during the Middle Ages with the development of cities and the growth in trade.

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Who was Robert Owen?

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An educational reformer that believed in the values of socialism, all people work different jobs, receive the same pay, and live a comfortable life

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What is an authoritarian government

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A government that is not elected and does not respect the will of the people

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What is an absolute monarchy?

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When a monarch has absolute control over his or hers rights and power, above the law

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What is an autocracy

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A system of government where one person has all control of that nation

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What is censorship?

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Restricting freedom and rights to people, and to protect the perceived goodness of the governmental system

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What is a Coup d’état?

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A plan to overthrow the government

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What is a Coup d’état?

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A plan to overthrow the government

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What is a dictatorship?

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one or a group of persons that rule over a nation, typically use force, propaganda, indoctrination to gain power and rule over the nation

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What is fascist?

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An authoritarian government that has extreme militaristic nationalism

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What does indoctrination mean?

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Teaching someone something uncritically

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What is a junta?

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A military or political group that seizes power of a nation after overthrowing it

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What is a Totalitarian government?

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A government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state

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What was the German labor front?

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German organization that replaced labor unions and went against liberal values

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What is nationalization?

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Complete government control of industries

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How did a fascist economy in Nazi Germany reject liberalism?

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How did Nazi’s use social Darwinism to prove the killings of jews?

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Social Darwinism states that some people are “better” than others and that eliminating the people who are hinderance, will make a stronger, smarter, and overall better society. Jews were looked at as weak and a hinderance to the next generation because of genetics

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What is discrimination?

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The act of separating people due to physical traits, spiritual ideology, and mental well-being and labeling them as inferior to other groups

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What is eugenics?

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A fringe science that works to improve society by reproducing those with better genetic quality in the human population

27
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What was the holocaust

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The mass incrimination and murders of European jews through WW2

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What is a pseudoscience?

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A set of beliefs that are a mix of both factual and scientific but do not align with the scientific method

29
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Who was Czar Nicholas II

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Ruler of Russia in 1895, took on his fathers values and was not a great leader, later resigned during the Russian revolution

30
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Who was Lenin?

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took up as the government during the russian revolution where he made U.S.S.R, Russia becomes a one party state and the collective has more value than the individual

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What does abdicate mean?

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renouncing ones throne

32
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What is the Bolshevik party?

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The now communist party with the slogan “peace, land, bread”

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Who are the Bolsheviks?

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Russian revolutionaries that were led by Lenin

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What is the communist party?

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Political party that promoted freedom under very strict conditions

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What was the Duma?

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An elected legislative branch made by Czar Nicholas II

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What is a provisional government?

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A temporary government until the next one can be selected

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What is a trade union?

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A group of workers who all have common goals

38
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What was the gulag?

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Soviet labor camps that served as prisons, detentions, and transit camps

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What was the KGB

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A secret police force and intelligence agency

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What is a purge?

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removal of individuals who posed a threat to Stalin’s rule and those who were a menace to society

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Who was Joseph Stalin?

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A totalitarian dictator that ruled over the the soviet union for a quarter of the 20th century

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What is centrally planned economy?

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Where the government has full control over the whole economy of a nation

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What is collectivization?

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Stalin grouping smaller farms into big government owned agriculture

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What is a command economy?

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An economy that is controlled by the central government

45
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What is a famine?

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Widespread shortage of food

46
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Who were the gosplan?

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The committee in the soviet union in charge of making all of the economic planning for the nation

47
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Who were the Kulaks?

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Powerful farmers who rejected collectivization

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What was the new economic policy (NEP)?

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Lenin’s new policy for limited private ownership

49
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What was ruble?

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Soviet currency

50
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What is the supreme soviet?

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The highest organ of state power

51
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What was war communism?

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The economic and political policy where everything became government owned (industries, farms, labor duties, food rationing etc.)

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