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Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism. Fascism ultimately becomes a term to describe governments that follow:

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Totalitarianism

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  1. Totalitarianism

  2. Fascism ultimately becomes a term to describe governments that follow: •  a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism,  regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and  often racism (Hitler adds this attribute). Anti-democratic and anti-constitutional.

  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOv-Ncs7vQk

  4. Commando Supremo

  5. ... in Mussolini's fascist salute

  6. Invasion of Ethiopia violated League of Nations so he dropped out.

  7. Lenin’s take on Marxism • Human leadership more than historical laws would bring about the moment of revolution • Only violent revolution would destroy capitalism, denounced a peaceful evolution • A proletariat is necessary but peasants can be used if a last resort…which in Russia it’s all last resort! The rest of Europe where communism will soon spread can be the capitalist phase. • An elite worker’s party is necessary to keep the revolution going in the long-term.

  8. Promises of Peace, Bread and Land attract the peasants. • Does he deliver?

  9. CHEKA and war communism

  10. Open your doors to share your house • Banks taken over • Stock market shut down • Foreign debt abolished • Inflation wild on purpose to abolish money • New western calendar • Divorce made easy • State and church separated • Legalized abortion

  11. No more private property • Supreme Economic Council plans the entire economy • All travel free-but trains didn’t run • All mail free-but no mail • Water and electricity free-but no heat • Rent abolished • Outlawed vodka! Huge blow to economy without the taxes so had to overturn • Redistribution of all food, workers get most • Extraordinary Revolutionary Tax: if someone has something you don’t, take it

  12. results • 1921 Russia’s production was at 13% compared to 1914. • People flee cities to countryside where the food was • No quality control since bosses and experienced people gone. • Black Market thrives • CHEKA incredibly active.

  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLqplbwD644

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