The Three Major Philosophies Established During the 1900s

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While discontent increased during the 1900s three major philosophies were established. The three major philosophies that were established were socialism, communism, and fascism. Socialism was never officially promoted, but the Bolsheviks, the elite group when Lenin was in power in Russia, thought socialism could be achieved by moderate reforms such as higher wages, increased suffrage, and social welfare. Communism was promoted by Lenin, his successor, and Stalin. Lenin developed the New Economic Policy, or NEP. Lenin just saw the New Economic Policy as a temporary retreat from communism. His successor put the Soviet Union back on the road to “pure” communism. Stalin developed Five-Year Plans while the Soviet Union developed a command economy, where the government made all basic economic decisions. A command economy is communist. Fascism was promoted by Mussolini and Hitler. In 1919 Mussolini organized discontent Italians into the Fascist Party. Mussolini quickly gained power, by 1925 he had taken the title II Duce, “The Leader.” Mussolini preserved capitalism and created his “corporate state,” where representatives of business, labor, government, and the Fascist party controlled industry, agriculture, and trade. Hitler made Germany become Europe’s second fascist state. Mussolini and Hitler were allies. Stalin relied on Lenin to further implement communism and the Soviet Union because they both shared the same goal, to generate worldwide revolution that Marx had predicted and Hitler relied on Mussolini to further implement fascism by copying Mussolini’s idea of preserving capitalism.
The major reasons why the philosophies were developed was because of discontent. Socialism has many different theories of origin and ha...

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...st change the implementations to gain more power. Stalin followed some of Lenin's implementations but did not follow all of them in order to gain more power for himself. Stalin and Lenin both had the same major goal, to create worldwide revolution that Marx had predicted but Stalin also went against Lenin like how he terminated all other political factions, such as the Bolsheviks which Lenin had organized. Hitler followed some of Mussolini’s implementations but went against some of them as well. Hitler and Mussolini both preserved capitalism but Hitler brought big businesses and labor under government control. As a result both supporting leaders, Stalin and Hitler, were more successful. Hitler almost took over the world! This demonstrates that in order to learn how to gain more power you must keep some to the old leaders plans and create some of your own as well.

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