HISTORY 3CG3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Armoured Warfare, Civilizing Mission, The Saturday Evening Post
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One of most important political theorists in the world. Theory: productive forces (technology, material resources, labour) determined economic relationships. Class conflicts would continue until communism was established. Conditions of workers under capitalism would grow worse. These ideas did not succeed in the end. Like leninism, stalinism, marxism ideology was eroded with the collapse of the soviet system. Socialists in europe and us want to replace capitalism. Want to replace by votes not by violence. Common/public ownership of the means of production. Learned emotional loyalty that individuals direct toward a group with common bonds to them (ex. from the same country, religion, history) One of most dramatic events in 1900. Small number of industrial nations extended economic/political control over rest of world. British took over suez canal as trade route) Imperialists believed that west would dominate world forever. Entire societies in africa, asia, latin america were modified or destroyed.