Baradat’s Framework of Communism

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Baradat’s framework of Communism
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BARADAT’S FRAMEWORK OF COMMUNISM1
Baradat in his work “Political Ideologies: Their Origins and Impact” evaluates various
developments in the systems of democracy, socialism, communism, fascism, and national
socialism by considering their historical and philosophical aspects along with the process of
institutionalization in the various governments of the world along with the various stages of
evolution (Baradat and Phillips 2019). In doing so, he brings the attention of his readers to the
various political structures in terms of them being conservative and liberals. In his discussion, he
includes socialism and communism in the light of their origin that is dated back to the 19th
century and the condition that dominated Europe and the Industrial Revolution. The roles played
by Marx, Engels, French Utopians, and Russian Anarchists have been analyzed according to
their relation to their origins of Communism and Socialism along with revisiting the thoughts of
Marxism (Snelgrove 1979). Marxism is also applied to the Soviet Union b dividing it into four
parts; namely the NEP era, the mobilization of the country after the Civil War- these were also
institutionalized by Lenin but become bloody under the governance of Stalin. Yugoslavia,
Maoist China, and Cuba are also analyzed under the Communist lens.
In explaining the basic principles of Marxism, Baradat explains the ideals of Karl Marx
who had fostered the major factors that have characterized Europe of nineteenth century. The
and foremost factor was the Industrial revolution that led to the creation of unimagined amount
of production in Europe, although methods used for production as well as distribution of wealth
were extremely biased (Baradat and Phillips 2019). For which the fruits of hard work and toil
was enjoyed only by the elite class, whereas the workers lived their lives on minimum wages and
deplorable conditions. Although it was mentioned that the workers had left their unsustainable
life in the countryside and moved to the urban pockets of the cities, they were greeted with
utmost humiliation that marked the depersonalized sweatshops along with extremely squalid