Incorporating Sources Effectively Lab

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Carlos Franqui once said “[He] believe[d] that the communist system’s strength and power [laid] in its unlimited capacity for total destruction” (175). He stated in his journal article Strengths and Weaknesses of Communism that this was because communism destroys the riches, culture, and other things a society has acquired, destroys opposition, and then puts the society in a state of non-renewal (175).

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Frederick Engels, one of the founders of communism, had the belief that there is something called the proletariat. He defined a proletariat as “that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital.” According to Engels in his 1947 writing The Principles of Communism, originally published in the Vorwärts, a German socialist newspaper, proletariats hadn’t always existed, but in fact “originated in the industrial revolution, which took place in England in the last half of the last (18th) century, and which has since then been repeated in all the civilized countries of the world.”

Communism identifies an enemy called the Bourgeoisie.  Engels defines the Bourgeoisie in the Principles of Communism as the “big capitalists, who, in all civilized countries, are already in almost exclusive possession of all the means of subsistence [sic] and of the instruments (machines, factories) and materials necessary for the production of the means of subsistence.” According to the German Philosopher Karl Marx in his work the Communist Manifesto, “[laborers] are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker [sic], and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.” Engels and Marx regarded the bourgeoisie as the class that owned capital and had the ability to use it for profit. The laborer or proletarian could only gain profit from the bourgeoisie through labor.

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Hoare, Marko Attila. “Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia Before and After Communism.”                          Europe-Asia Studies 62.7 ( September 2010): 1,193-214. EBSCO HOST. Web. 3 February                  2015.

Rummel, R. J. “Megamurders.” Society. 29.6 (Sep./Oct., 1992): 47-52. EBSCO HOST. Web. 3                     February 2015.

Tarifa, Fatos. “The Poverty of the ‘New Philosophy.’” Modern Age 50.3 (Summer 2008): 226-      37.           EBSCO HOST. Web. 3 February 2015.

Peet, Richard. “Inequality and Poverty: A Marxist-Geographical Theory.” Annals of the    Association           of American Geographers 65.4 (December 1975): 564-71. EBSCO HOST.          Web. 3                      February 2015.

Boshier, Roger, Huang Yan. “Hey there Edger Snow, what happened to The Red Star over                              Yan’an?” Convergence 41.4 (2008): 79-101. EBSCO HOST. Web. 3 February 2015.

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 “Year by year death toll of the century’s atrosities [sic] .” Chart. White Matthew, 2010. Web. 3                     February 2015.

Cambell, Neal. Photo of North Korea at Night from Space. Dec. 19, 2011. Nealcambell,com.

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Karl Marx. N.d. Library of Congress. Web. 3 February 2015.

Vladumir Ilyich Lenin. N.d. kowb1290.com.Web. 3 February 2015

“Global GDP Leaders.” Chart. Dorfman, John. Time, n.d. Web. 3 February 2015.