The following sections of this article deal with criticisms that are specifically raised against Marxist theory, the ideological foundation of most communist thought. Criticisms of communism - Historical materialism. Historical materialism is normally considered one of the intellectual foundations of Marxism. It looks for the causes of developments and changes in human history in economic, technological, and more broadly, material factors, as well as the clashes of ma ...

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Criticisms of communism, Criticisms of communism - 20th century Communist states, Criticisms of communism - General critique of Communist states, Criticisms of communism - Communist and Left critique of Communist states, Criticisms of communism - Marxist theory, Criticisms of communism - Historical materialism, Criticisms of communism - Labor theory of value, Criticisms of communism - Relevance of the Communist states for Marxist theory, Criticisms of communism - Other views of Marx and Marxists, Criticisms of communism - References and bibliography, Criticisms of communism - References, Criticisms of communism - Bibliography

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Anarchist communism, Anarchist communism - Philosophical arguments, Anarchist communism - Criticisms, Anarchist communism - People, Anarchist communism - Books

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Communism is a social system that abolishes private property, social classes, and the state itself. As such, a "communist state" would be an oxymoron. No country or government ever called itself a "Communist state"; however, various states gave the Communist Party a special status in their constitution and laws[1], while claiming to be heading in the direction of communism. The term "Communist state" has been coined and used in the West to refer to s ...

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Criticisms of communism, Criticisms of communism - 20th century Communist states, Criticisms of communism - General critique of Communist states, Criticisms of communism - Communist and Left critique of Communist states, Criticisms of communism - Marxist theory, Criticisms of communism - Historical materialism, Criticisms of communism - Labor theory of value, Criticisms of communism - Relevance of the Communist states for Marxist theory, Criticisms of communism - Other views of Marx and Marxists, Criticisms of communism - References and bibliography, Criticisms of communism - References, Criticisms of communism - Bibliography

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History of communism Schools of communism Marxism · Leninism Trotskyism · Maoism Council communism Religious communism Communist parties Communist International World Communist Movement Communist revolution World revolution Communist states The Soviet Union People's Republic of China Cuba · Vietnam Laos · North Korea Related subjects Socialism Planned economy Historical mater ...

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Communism - Early Communism Communism - Marxism Communism - The growth of modern Communism
Communism - Soviet Marxism
Communism - Cold War years
Communism - Maoism
Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union Communism - Criticism of communism Communism - Comparing Communism to communism
Communism - Schools of communism Communism - Organizations and people

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Proponents of communism in capitalist countries tend to challenge the accuracy of anti-communist claims. A common rebuttal of anti-communism is that communist countries had created a new, non-proletarian ruling class and thus were not in fact communist. This is a view first put forward by left communists in the twenties and Trotskyists in the 1930s, and today it is accepted by the majority of western communists. Indeed, most modern communists do acknowledge failings on the part of communist governments, say ...

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Anti-communism, Anti-communism - Background, Anti-communism - Types of Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Fascism and Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Anti-communism in the United States and Cold War, Anti-communism - Repression and Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Criticisms of Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Contemporary anticommunism, Anti-communism - Objections to Communist theory, Anti-communism - Anticommunist histories, Anti-communism - Economic performance of communist governments, Anti-communism - Anarchist anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Anti-Communists who are also Anti-Fascists, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communist Dissidents, Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Statesmen and Military Leaders, Anti-communism - Leaders of the Russian anti-Bolshevik White Movement, Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Terrorists

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Proponents of communism in capitalist countries tend to challenge the accuracy of anti-communist claims. A common rebuttal of anti-communism is that communist countries had created a new, non-proletarian ruling class and thus were not in fact communist. This is a view first put forward by left communists in the twenties and Trotskyists in the 1930s, and today it is accepted by the majority of western communists. Indeed, most modern communists do acknowledge failings on the part of communist governments, say ...

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Anti-communism, Anti-communism - Background, Anti-communism - Types of Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Fascism and Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Anti-communism in the United States and Cold War, Anti-communism - Repression and Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Criticisms of Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Contemporary anticommunism, Anti-communism - Objections to Communist theory, Anti-communism - Anticommunist histories, Anti-communism - Economic performance of communist governments, Anti-communism - Anarchist anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Anti-Communists who are also Anti-Fascists, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communist Dissidents, Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Statesmen and Military Leaders, Anti-communism - Leaders of the Russian anti-Bolshevik White Movement, Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Terrorists, Anti-communism - External link

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Their coverage is often claimed to be very poor by their competitors, but it covers (according to their website) over 90% of the population, and a recent deal with Siemens AG will see them cover almost the entire country by 2005. However, in the interim, they have an internal roaming agreement with mmO2 which means that when out of Meteor coverage, a Meteor customer can use O2's network at no extra charge. On some handsets, this creates the interesting effect of having coverage ...

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Meteor Mobile Communications, Meteor Mobile Communications - History, Meteor Mobile Communications - Award of Licence, Meteor Mobile Communications - Launch, Meteor Mobile Communications - Acquisition by eircom, Meteor Mobile Communications - Roaming Partners, Meteor Mobile Communications - Outbound, Meteor Mobile Communications - Criticism

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Anti-communism is the opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either an ideological or pragmatic basis. Anti-communism is a catch-all phrase which defines any opposition to communism as a philosophical basis for a political and social alliance. The term came to have a global meaning during the Cold War, when the powers of Western society sought to coordinate an opposition to the apparent militarist expansion of the Soviet Union. For much of the period between 1950 and 1991 anti-communism was one of the ...

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Anti-communism - Background Anti-communism - Types of Anti-Communists Anti-communism - Fascism and Anti-Communism Anti-communism - Anti-communism in the United States and Cold War Anti-communism - Repression and Anti-Communism Anti-communism - Criticisms of Anti-Communism Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists Anti-communism - Contemporary anticommunism
Anti-communism - Objections to Communist theory Anti-communism - Anticommunist histories Anti-communism - Economic performance of communist governments Anti-communism - Anarchist anti-Communism
Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists Anti-communism - Anti-Communists who are also Anti-Fascists Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communist Dissidents Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Statesmen and Military Leaders Anti-communism - Leaders of the Russian anti-Bolshevik White Movement
Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Terrorists

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Communicating sequential processes - Synchronous channels. Some people believe that the decision to use synchronous channels to represent communication in CSP introduces problems. Two specific objections to synchronous channels are typically raised: Implementing synchronous channels may introduce problems with starvation, livelock, and efficiency. For a description of this perspective see issues with synchronous channels. However: CSP is intended as an abstract mathematical theory, rather th ...

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Communicating sequential processes, Communicating sequential processes - History, Communicating sequential processes - Informal description, Communicating sequential processes - Primitives, Communicating sequential processes - Algebraic operators, Communicating sequential processes - Formal definition, Communicating sequential processes - Syntax, Communicating sequential processes - Formal semantics, Communicating sequential processes - Examples, Communicating sequential processes - Criticisms, Communicating sequential processes - Synchronous channels, Communicating sequential processes - Lack of mobility, Communicating sequential processes - Related formalisms

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Communication studies is the academic discipline that studies communication; subdisciplines include animal communication, argumentation, speech communication, rhetoric, communication theory, group communication, information theory, intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, intrapersonal communication, marketing, organizational communication, persuasion, propaganda, public affairs, public relations and telecommunication. At many institutions, separate schools of Mass communication share an interest in communicati ...

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Communication studies - History Communication studies - Criticism

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Socialism Part of the Politics series History of socialism Democratic socialism Christian socialism Communism Libertarian socialism Social democracy Egalitarianism Democracy Equality of outcome Class struggle Proletarian revolution Marxism Anarchism Trade unionism Internationalism Utilitarianism Mixed economy Socialist economics Social ...

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Marxism - The Hegelian roots of Marxism Marxism - The political-economy roots of Marxism
Marxism - The liberal challenge
Marxism - Class analysis Marxism - Marxist revolutions and governments
Marxism - Marx's views on the structure of communist society Marxism - The October Revolution
Marxism - Criticisms
Marxism - Other articles about Marxism

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives P ...

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Anarchist communism - Philosophical arguments Anarchist communism - Criticisms Anarchist communism - People Anarchist communism - Books

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In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory has two quite different meanings with different origins and histories, one originating in social theory and the other in literary criticism. Though until recently these two meanings had little to do with each other, since the 1970s there has been some overlap between these disciplines. This has led to "critical theory" becoming an umbrella term for an array of theories within academia. This article focuses primarily on the differences and similarities between them. C ...

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Critical theory - Critical theory social theory Critical theory - Critical theory literary criticism Critical theory - Relationship between the two versions Critical theory - Overlap between the two versions of critical theory
Critical theory - Within social theory Critical theory - Within literary theory
Critical theory - Language and construction
Critical theory - Language and communication Critical theory - Construction

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Willow Creek Community Church is a large American interdenominational church located in the suburb of South Barrington, Illinois, near Chicago, Illinois. It was founded on October 12, 1975 by Bill Hybels, who is currently the Senior Pastor. The church has three weekend services with approximately 17,000 attendees. Willow Creek Community Church - History. Willow Creek Community Church started when Bill Hybels was inspired by the success of the South Park Church’s youth ministry, of which he was a leader, a ...

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Willow Creek Community Church - History Willow Creek Community Church - Beliefs Willow Creek Community Church - Church Organization Willow Creek Community Church - Willow Creek Association Willow Creek Community Church - Criticisms of Willow Creek Community Church

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Some have criticized Willow Creek for the focus on seeker-sensitivity and emphasis on church growth. Those who criticize this aspect of Willow Creek and other megacurches assert that this puts more focus on catering to a person’s possibly self-centered wants rather than their true need for Jesus Christ. Others criticize the church saying that it focuses on extravagant, entertainment-based services and neglects biblically sound expository preaching and exegetical teaching. A Business Week article discusses how the business models of churche ...

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Willow Creek Community Church, Willow Creek Community Church - History, Willow Creek Community Church - Beliefs, Willow Creek Community Church - Church Organization, Willow Creek Community Church - Willow Creek Association, Willow Creek Community Church - Criticisms of Willow Creek Community Church

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Advocates for Children's Health Affected by Mercury Poisoning (A-CHAMP), is a United States political activism group, founded by parents, which advocates on behalf of children they believe were injured by mercury in thimerosal containing vaccines. Its mission, "To be a strong and unified voice for children with neurodevelopmental and communication disorders so that each child may be provided the support necessary to live a full and productive life." The organization is strictly non-partisan with the intent of representing the d ...

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A-CHAMP - Political agenda
A-CHAMP - Legislative agenda
A-CHAMP - High profile campaigns
A-CHAMP - Criticism

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Fruitarians (or fructarians) are a subgroup of vegans who eat only the fruit of plants. This includes not only what one typically thinks of as a "fruit" in the culinary sense such as apples and oranges, but also other foods that are botanically the fruits of flowering plants (that is, the seed-containing reproductive parts), including berries, nuts, seeds, capsicums, tomatoes, squash, beans, peas, and so on. There are different variations of fruitarianism. Some fruitarians will eat only what falls (or would fall) naturally from ...

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Fruitarianism - Motivation Fruitarianism - Famous fruitarians Fruitarianism - Biblical fruitarians Fruitarianism - Fictional fruitarians Fruitarianism - Criticism Fruitarianism - Fruitarian online community

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Communism - Soviet Marxism. In Russia, the 1917 October Revolution was the first time any party with an avowedly Marxist orientation, in this case the Bolshevik Party, obtained state power. The assumption of state power by the Bolsheviks generated a great deal of practical and theoretical debate within the Marxist movement. Marx believed that socialism and communism would be built upon foundations laid by the most advanced capitalist development. Russia, however, was one of the poorest countries in Europe with an ...

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Communism, Communism - Early Communism, Communism - Marxism, Communism - The growth of modern Communism, Communism - Soviet Marxism, Communism - Cold War years, Communism - Maoism, Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Communism - Criticism of communism, Communism - Comparing Communism to communism, Communism - Schools of communism, Communism - Organizations and people

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As the Soviet Union won important allies by victory in the Second World War in Eastern Europe, communism as a movement spread to a number of new countries, and gave rise to a few different branches of its own, such as Maoism. Communism had been vastly strengthened by the winning of many new nations into the sphere of Soviet influence and strength in Eastern Europe. Governments modeled on Soviet Communism took power with Soviet assistance in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania. A Communist government was ...

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Communism, Communism - Early Communism, Communism - Marxism, Communism - The growth of modern Communism, Communism - Soviet Marxism, Communism - Cold War years, Communism - Maoism, Communism - Communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Communism - Criticism of communism, Communism - Comparing Communism to communism, Communism - Schools of communism, Communism - Organizations and people

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Anti-communism - Objections to Communist theory. The central part of Karl Marx's communist theory is historical materialism, a methodology for studying history using dialectical reasoning which concludes that human society has grown or evolved through several historical stages due to the contradictions inherent in each stage, with each transition to the next stage involving the overthrow of the existing socioeconomic order. This idea was first theorized by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, but Marx used it to justif ...

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Anti-communism, Anti-communism - Background, Anti-communism - Types of Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Fascism and Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Anti-communism in the United States and Cold War, Anti-communism - Repression and Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Criticisms of Anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Contemporary anticommunism, Anti-communism - Objections to Communist theory, Anti-communism - Anticommunist histories, Anti-communism - Economic performance of communist governments, Anti-communism - Anarchist anti-Communism, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communists, Anti-communism - Anti-Communists who are also Anti-Fascists, Anti-communism - Notable Anti-Communist Dissidents, Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Statesmen and Military Leaders, Anti-communism - Leaders of the Russian anti-Bolshevik White Movement, Anti-communism - Anti-Communist Terrorists, Anti-communism - External link

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