Government, Democracy, Or Authoritarianism - 1552 Words

A government’s role in society is to rule over a community. It accomplishes this through setting laws or policies and there are several different types of government. However, the most powerful and prevalent world powers have all had one of the major types of government, democracy, communism or authoritarianism. All are very different in how they try to achieve the same goal of ruling over a group of people. A democracy is â€Å"a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections†. (â€Å"Definition of Democracy†). A democracy is a form of government that relies heavily on the input on the people it governs.†¦show more content†¦It was in 1958 when the democratic government that is recognized as modern day France, the 5th Republic, was created. (â€Å"France History†). France has always leaned towards creating a democratic government, and this is evident because the goal of the French Revolution was to install one such government. However, they have been plagued with a structurally weak government, overly powerful rulers, and extreme military conflict. All these reasons prevented France from creating a stable and strong democratic government. Communism is a fairly new idea of government. It was created by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels and they discussed it in their book, The Communist Manifesto published in 1848. The idea of communism was to eliminate social classes and stop the oppression of the working class, proletariats, by the people who owns the means of production, bourgeoisies. All private ownership will be abolished and there would be no more class conflict. (â€Å"Communism and Computer Ethics†). An example of a communist nation was Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. In the 1900’s, Russia began to industrialize. Because of this, they had a very large working class. The current ruler, Nicholas II, was already an unpopular ruler. After Russia lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, the government split into two political parties, the communist Bolsheviks and the moderate Mensheviks. When World War 1 occurred, Russia was in a crisis. Their economy had collapsed soon after and they