Historiography - Communism, Fascism, and Democracy


Based on Hegel’s perspective, the political views of Communism, Fascism and Democracy are all clearly individual beliefs. However, in separate ways, they are both created to counter the other system, and are also the fusion of elements they both share.


Communism is the extreme left wing on a political spectrum, because of liberal ideas. But these “liberal” ideas are not enforced with the freedom they promise, as the policy is totalitarian, and often very oppressive, authoritative rule. In this way, communism is both the antithesis and synthesis of both Fascism and democracy. It is a government that rules for the people, but also does just that: it rules for them. With the merger of banks, for instance, communism takes away the individual freedom of the people and enforces its own legislature, as anything less will lead to its antithesis: capitalism. And where competition exists, there will inevitably corruption and the emergence of a bourgeoisie. Therefore, it must be governed with high control so that the society can meet its ideal standards. In this way, communism is a synthesis of democracy’s motives and fascism’s methods.


Fascism is the antithesis of communism in the way that it presents itself. While in the communism the government exists to ensure a fair people, in fascism, the people exist only to serve their government. There is government is a higher power for which the spirit contributes to. Yet, it also is a synthesis of communism and a standard monarchial system. As in communism, fascism rules through totalitarian means, keeping the ropes on the people tight. It also believes that it represents the people in a new way. Classical liberalism of choice and reason only existed to fight old regimes, but that movement is now expired, as the government inherently supports the people. Therefore, it is the people’s job to strengthen their nation, so they can have power through it.


Democracy does is an antithesis to both fascism and communism in the most part, due to its room for choice, change, and individuality. However, through small ways, it synthesizes with both fascism and communism. In fascism, it shares the belief that government is for the people, and that it should exist to protect them. But like fascism, it also believes there is a duty from a person to their government, through their voting and selection, to make their country stronger. Yet there is a reason that Democracy cannot fit in with these regimes. It values the individual too much. It is the antithesis to the other two ideals simply because they only refer to and treat “the people” rather than each person making up that people, and what they contribute to a society. They are treated not as a collective or tool, but as different entities with different goals that can coexist for a common goal. And that is something communism and fascism do not share



Resume - Tycho Brahe


Skills:

  1. Relating science and religion
  2. Making observations by the naked eye and with limited equipment
  3. Carrying and training apprentices of the craft
  4. Versatility spanning astronomy, physics and astrology


Accolades

  1. Creating the Tychonic System
  2. Training Johannes Kepler, who created the Laws of Planetary Movement
  3. Creation of useful herbal medicines
  4. Accurate portrayals of planetary and stellar measurements
  5. Creation of Observatories and research centers such as Uraniborg
  6. Degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen


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  1. Scholar
  2. Astronomer

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Chapter 12 Essential Questions

1. The reformation set the entire stage for Religious wars. When Europe was a united Christendom, it had never needed to integrate rules or regulations on religion into it's politics, because there was no opposing side. With the reformation, leaders all of a sudden faced struggles with people and countries of different beliefs, and they were unprepared to handle it. Along with several forms of corruption influencing the scale of the wars, this strange and unknown feud made wars almost a formality of the disagreements.

2. Calvinism was appealing to France because it gave the government a substantial ability to manipulate their allies and enemies of foreign politics through their religion.  For example. though they remained Catholic, their amount of Calvinist minorities showed other European allies their opposition to the Spanish Habsburgs.

3.  The 3 stages were the rise of Catherine de Medici, the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, and the reign of Henry IV of Navarre.

4.  Most leaders in the French Wars of Religion were either in it for their own agendas, or were politiques who wanted to preserve the government at all costs. An example of the prior would be the manipulative Catherine de Medici, and example of the latter would be Henry of Navarre, who conceded his beliefs and changed his terms several times during his life in order to sustain the French people and monarchy.

5.  The people of the Netherlands all felt so oppressed by the Spanish and the forceful, military rule over the lands that they bypassed their religious differences to unite. This allowed them to become a power resistance, secure major allies, and thrive economically.

6.  Political leaders would often change their beliefs and views in order to secure and control a certain type or person, or create a monopoly of propaganda. This same tactic is used today in America and elsewhere by politicians during their elections campaigns.

7. The periods were the Bohemian Period, the Danish Period, the Swedish Period, and the French/Swedish Period. The first was a struggle between Ferdinand and the Bohemian Protestants. Then Christian IV of Denmark entered it but failed to do anything. Gustavas Adolphus II of Sweden, a pious Lutheran then fought back and changed the tide of the war, eventually leading to the Peace of Prague in 1635. However, in the final period, the war continued to devastate Germany as other nations wanted something out of the war, ending in the Treaty of Westphalia, and 1/3 of Germany dead.

8. The Treaty of Westphalia (1648), ended the Age of Religious Wars. It not only ended all violent hostilities and was completely written in French, but set a new standard for all treaties after it by being negotiated and signed by diplomats of many large nation-states.