Capitalism Versus Communism

Discover the power of Governments, proponents and critics of Capitalism as well as the frameworks of State and Democracy. Students will also explore the origins and leaders of modern Communism, Eurocommunism and Marxism. Our ready-to-use activities have simplified language and vocabulary. These concepts are presented in a way that makes them more accessible to students and easier to understand. Complete with reading passages, student activities, color mini posters, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz, and test prep. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

**This is the chapter slice "Capitalism Since the Cold War Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Capitalism vs. Communism"** Discover the rise of Capitalism from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Our resource explores the differences between a Capitalistic, Communist and Globalization economy. Step into the Dust Bowl era and experience the hardships of the Great Depression. Explain how the New Deal helped the United States recover during this dismal time. Travel back to the Industrial Revolution and find out why people became more interested in Communism as a result of these changes. Recognize that the Cold War was a war between Capitalism and Communism, and discover how Capitalism changed throughout the world since this conflict. Experience what it's like to shop at the mall in a Communist country, and how this would affect your own lifestyle. Explore the dangers of monopolies in a Capitalistic economy. Find out about the Inca culture and how it is similar to Communism. Get a global view of the world economy by seeing how businesses benefit from world-wide partnerships. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

**This is the chapter slice "A Communist Political Economy Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Capitalism vs. Communism"** Discover the rise of Capitalism from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Our resource explores the differences between a Capitalistic, Communist and Globalization economy. Step into the Dust Bowl era and experience the hardships of the Great Depression. Explain how the New Deal helped the United States recover during this dismal time. Travel back to the Industrial Revolution and find out why people became more interested in Communism as a result of these changes. Recognize that the Cold War was a war between Capitalism and Communism, and discover how Capitalism changed throughout the world since this conflict. Experience what it's like to shop at the mall in a Communist country, and how this would affect your own lifestyle. Explore the dangers of monopolies in a Capitalistic economy. Find out about the Inca culture and how it is similar to Communism. Get a global view of the world economy by seeing how businesses benefit from world-wide partnerships. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

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‘An Age of Progress?’ is an advanced examination of major twentieth-century global developments regarding subjects as diverse as violence, capitalism, socialism and communism, imperialism, racism, nationalism, westernization, globalization, international finance, freedom and human rights, physical and mental environmental changes, culture, science, education, religion and social criticism. This momentous study also explores the ways in which the twentieth century made significant progress – and the ways in which it did not.

What is Communism? is a small book comprised of three essays by Paul Mattick written from 1934 to 1936, What is Communism?, Capitalism and Planning, and The Inevitability of Communism. In these essays, Mattick, of course, examines what communism is, what planned economy is, and gives a critique of Sidney Hook's understanding of Marx's Capital (Das Kapital) to give a lens into what communism is. Born in Pomerania in 1904 and raised in Berlin by class-conscious parents, Mattick was already at the age of 14 a member of the Spartacists' Freie Sozialistiche Jugend. In 1918, he started to learn as a toolmaker at Siemens, where he was also elected as the apprentices' delegate on the workers' council of the company during the German revolution. Implicated in many actions during the revolution, arrested several times and threatened with death, Mattick radicalized along the left and oppositional trend of the german communists. After the 'Heidelberg' split of the KPD(Spartacus) and the formation for the KAPD in the spring of 1920, he entered the KAPD and worked in the youth organization Rote Jugend, writing for its journal. Paul Mattick died in February 1981 leaving an almost finished manuscript for another book, which was laler edited and published by his son, Paul Mattick Jr., as 'Marxism - Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie?'

The conflict played out between communism and capitalism for most of the second half of the twentieth century came quickly to be termed the Cold War.