Tuesday, February 12th • Sorry that I wasn’t here- my flight got delayed because of a

TORNADO in Birmingham- missed my connecting flight Sunday night- had to catch a flight 4:30am Monday morning= miserable!

• I am also moving this week

• Excited to be here!!!

• Collect warm ups from last week

This week• T- Communism/Capitalism• W/TR- Imperialism• F- Imperialism• THREE DAY WEEKEND! Happy President’s Day!

Warm Up

• Name three most interesting things that you learned about from the video yesterday!!!

What is Communism?

• This is the symbol of Communism – The Hammer and the Sickle

Hammer for the

Workers

Sickle for the Peasants – the

farm labourers

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

They wrote the ‘Communist Manifesto’

in 1847. It’s a short book – but billions of people have read it….

This is Karl Marx, the ‘Father of Communism’. People who believe in his ideas are called ‘Marxists’

This is his good friend, Frederick

Engels.

What is Communism?• Marx and Engels studied

the history of the world’s economies.

• This means the way that power, industry and finance are controlled.

• They saw the way countries developed in stages.

Primitive Communism

Feudalism

Capitalism

Socialism

Communism

Explain these please!

Primitive Communism

This is how humans first lived together – in small tribes. Primitive means basic.

Communism means that everything was shared– food, jobs, belongings.

No one owned land. Eventually a group comes to power – this leads to Feudalism…

Primitive Communism

Feudalism

Under feudalism, a king or emperor or chief becomes the ruler over all the people.

He gives land and privileges to ‘nobles’ who rule the people for him.

The people are kept uneducated and told that god chose the king to rule. The church helps the king this way.

As trade develops, some people get richer. This leads to Capitalism…..

Feudalism

Capitalism

The business owners get richer while the workers do all the hard work.

Capitalism creates a huge working-class of people who soon get angry at the way they are treated.

They eventually organize and demand changes.

Socialism

Capitalism

In the Socialist revolution all the rulers – kings, churches, capitalists are eliminated.

The workers take control of the country to produce things for everyone.

Because nothing is made for profit, all people benefit from education and health.

These ideas spread across the world to create Communism….

Socialism

Communism

The remaining capitalists put up a bitter fight, but the will of the people will always win.

As everyone now works together, war is a thing of the past – armies are not needed.

Sharing means no police are needed.

Everything is provided by the people – so money becomes a thing of the past.

All human activity goes towards benefiting each other.

Disadvantages: Communism

Abuse of power•Restrictions- no freedom of speech, press, no religious practices •Censorship •Against ethnic diversity •Government controls property- very little if any, could own private property •Individual doesn’t compete, in some ways lazy and does not need to strive for more

Bloody history of communism…• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIbQAvF7C5Q

Disadvantages: Capitalism

• Poverty• Not everyone has healthcare• Monopolies- control too much business• Creates inequalities (ex: rich vs poor, have vs have not)

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