Above all Addams believed that each person had an ability to contribute to society and that if society did not give them a proper chance to develop their skills, human life would go to ruin. Her political views are very simple to understand. She was a socialist. Dictionary.com defines socialism as any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy. It also defines it as the stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and commu

Unlike Addams, Bellamy distances himself from the radical views of socialists. One of the biggest criticisms of his work is the keeping of gender barriers in the society. Women and men are still divided in his utopia with women being critiqued by women and men being critiqued by men. There are individual laws for each but do not apply to the other. He believed in the sanctity of marriage and that women were there to run the household and take care of the children. Women were allowed to work, just not the same jobs as men. Women were now being critiqued by women and men by men. He believes a government remains intact to keep social order and that his society is the "perfect" one for America because the publicly owned capital allows people more options with their life.

This idea of an extreme socialist society, almost a communist society has worked before. Fidel Castro has done wonders for Cuba under his communist regime. Lenin was very successful in transforming socialism into communism, even with traces of Marxism. Lenin accepted Marx's governing ideas: that capitalism exploited the workers and it produced and preceded socialism. Lenin drew on Marx ideas and advocated them which resulted in Leninism. Marx believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat would represent the wishes of a great majority where Lenin realized that great majority would never come and that this "great majority" would have to be influenced by the extreme few that impose themselves on it. False names, invisible ink, codes and forged documents, all of which were early nineteenth century western ideas, were used by Lenin because Lenin knew what he was facing in Russia, Marx did not. The mix of Marx's western ideas and Lenins' Russian Revolutionary tactics developed a communism in Russia, a necessity for Lenin.

nism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved. She is not only a womens rights activist, Nobel peace prize winner, distinguished public o

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