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Western and Eastern Communism
Western and Eastern Communism
Correspondingly, it was following World War II, Marxist ideology, often with
Soviet military backing, spawned a rise in revolutionary communist parties all
over the world. Some of these parties were eventually able to gain power, and
establish their own version of a Marxist state. Such nations included the
People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam and others. Many of these self-
proclaimed Marxist nations eventually became authoritarian states, with
stagnating economies.
In some cases, these countries did not get along just like the rifts happened
between the Soviet Union and China. Elsewhere, the Bolshevik Revolution
brought this to the China. This revolution influenced by Mao Zedong, for it
utilized communism as the most doctrine where they accepted as a
arrangement in elevating the economy, and it spread to other nations around
the Asia.
In addition, the communist ideas are deeply rooted by the national emotions,
and in the Asiatic countries, by a source to the Confucian tradition.
Nationalism and to some degree racism are evident in the self-reliance
ideology of the so-called Juche in North Korea. Scholars support the thesis
relating the stability of communist notions and their significance for the
forthcoming form of human relations, an alternative to capitalism. As a key
question, they are giving scrutiny to the achievement of an egalitarian society.
As a rule, this rhetoric averts an appreciation of communist ideas encouraged
in the ‘real socialism’ countries.
Taking everything into account, what commenced in Russia, came to be a
global revolution, taking root in countries in Asia. Western communism was
influenced with the ideology of Marxism, interpreted by Lenin that believed to
centralized command economy with a vanguards one-party state to realize the
dictatorship of the proletariat. On the other hand, eastern communism
asserted, its the peasants who will lead the revolution. It is evident that
communism has seen a series of surges and declines. It been a more complex
and contested doctrine. This is because of the distinctions in cultural aspect
inclined that resulted to non-parallel interpretations and application of the
said doctrine.