Soviet Propoganda

The Soviet propoganda had an abbundance of interesting posters, but only a couple, or group with same idea, really stood out to me. What really stood out to me was that in the Soviet's propoganda they should that they have more interest in the safety and well being of the children(the nation's future) than the adults. Also they promoted excersize and fitness for the citizens. Lastly what really stood out was how the Soviets used propoganda to try and show the civilians that the US is planning to attack, or willing to attack, meanwhile the soviets "just want peace".

The propoganda posters showed an importance in the developement and safety of the youth. For example if a disaster were to occur the main emergancy response would be put towards looking for the children. Also th adults must teach the children how to put on emergancy mask incase of attack, or they have to teach them how what to do incase of an emergancy. They also made education and excersize an important aspect of a kids life. They made certain childhood groups that helped the children learn the Soviets ideas. I believe the importance of the youth in the Soviet's mind is that the youth is their future, and if socialist ideas were to succeed in the Soviet Union the children would have to be well educated.

Other propoganda posters harped on the importance of excersize. One poster in particular showed a man who would not excersize, then missed excersize classes, and then missed sports activites. At the sametime everyone esle is excersizing and playing sports. Then the poster shows him struggling to carry something that a girl is easily carrying in the front. I believe that the Soviet Union really wanted their citizens to be fight inorder to possibly get called for to go to war. Or possibly the are to be fight so they could so theyre dominance.

Socialism (Heywood)

Socialism arose in Europe as a reaction against the social and economic conditions generated by the growth of industrial capitalism. Socialist's birth has closely been linked to the development of a new but growing class of industrial workers. These workers suffered from poverty and degradation. Socialism has the idea of collectivsm stating that humans are capable of overcoming social and economic problems by drawing upon the power of community rather than individual effort. They also believe that the relationship between humans should be one of cooperation rather than competition. Socialist disagree with the thought of competition because it promotes selfishness and agression in the community. Socialist believe that social class is the deepest and most politically significant division in society. They believe that class divisions should be removed since the class system is founded upon exploitation and injustice.

I agree with many of the points that socialist bring up. I am however disappointed that groups took these ideas and sort of manipulated them into their form of government. Like the Soviet Union, they took these ideas, got the publics support, and once the government had controll the economy went on a downward spiral and the people were suffering dramatically. I feel that if a government took these ideas and did not manipulate them at all, the government can be very prosperous and the people would lead a happy life.

John Dewey

What I get from Dewey's article is that liberty is directly parrallel to the amount of power you have. If you have more power, you have the liberty to do more than someone with less power. "It (Liberty) is power, effective power to do specific things". Liberty has to do with the fact of "what a person can do and what a person cannot do".

He goes on saying that the possesion of power has to deal with the distributuion of power. Also thirdly he goes on to say how there is no absolute liberty. That a persons freedom can be taken away at any moment.

I believe that many of the things Dewey states is true, but it should not be this way. Everyone should have equal liberty, and liberty should be absolute.