>3000 word essay on the influence of Christianity on the fall of Communism due tomorrow
>haven't started
kill me por favor
Will you resort to plagiarism, OP.
>>7945141
no i'll get failed
that's a stupid assignment since christianity and communism are the same thing (communism with a different metaphysics of course) while Islam and Judaism had more role in undermining it, but what really happened was communism became its opposite in display of dialectics, baby!
>>7945152
u wot m8
>>7945152
Wow, so smrt
>>7945167
Is that you, doge?
>>7945167
>boohoo i can't write ten pages on a gay topic that confirms the beliefs of the dominant ideology
no sir u r very smart i bet ur school costs a lot too
>>7945176
Not even OP. The fuck are you on about.
If this is trolling, you can make it better by being coherent.
>>7945189
>Internet tuff guy
>>7945189
>writing coherently
name one important author other than nietzsche who writes coherently
>>7945136
>the fall of communism
ever heard of the long march through the institutions?
Communism vs Christianity, which is more retarded?
>>7945253
*tips fedora*
>>7945136
Christianity played a big role in many European so called Communist states.
It's only propaganda that says that they were anti religion. Same with saying they were anti nationalism. They carved out new countries (and regions within countries) just to satisfy certain peoples.
So if you can't come up with anything mainstream talking points, then go with arguments that are against mainstream.
>>7945136
That's fucking easy
Just talk about the individualism that is inherent within Protestant Christianity and how that shaped America and thus contributed to the fall of communism
Just bring everything back to America
Fuck the euros
>>7945136
We were edgy atheists (turning churches into factories n shit) and after the fall we transformed into edgy orthodoxes
Ex soviet here
bumpu desu
>>7945136
this prob my fav wojak tbf
>>7945944
i like it too
>>7945136
Just take out a bunch of books on Poland you goofball, EZ mode
>>7945136
Capitalism contributed to the fall of USSR.
Maybe look into Rodney Stark.
>pic related
You don't need to read the entire book, just the main thesis, and selective chapters.
You better get started now you procrastinating bean.
>>7945199
That guy that wrote stoner
honestly 3000 words is doable in one day. use a meaty theoretical framework and use 3.17cm side margins
>>7945136
>the fall of Communism
Marxism is alive and well
>>7945136
The purpose of an undergraduate writing assignment is less to evaluate your /original, rigorous/ skill as a writer, and more to 1) check that you don't cheat via plagarism (one of the very few things that academics can universally agree is evil), 2) can put together a cogent piece which uses a few themes using citations, and 3) use some rhetoric.
You can literally bullshit at the undergraduate level anon, and if you make it sound decent and get your sources right you can get a B or even an A if the prof likes your i-de-o-logy. Just don't make the mistake of gambling on plagarism.
I can remember a history survey where someone else got caught, and the two profs (a joint effort) spent the better part of an hour laying into "this person", who was in the room. They really really really hate that shit. I didn't notice anyone's body language shrinking near me, so the person must not have been close to me, kek
>>7945136
>fall of Communism
Interestingly I was just talking to a Chinese woman and trying to explain to her how we in the west think communism has failed. She was really quite incredulous that we could think China was not communist today. She suggested politely that we should try to move past Cold War stereotypes.
OP all you need to know is that the Soviets got the shit kicked out of them by Pope Saint John Paul the Great. Literally cracked the Iron Curtain single-handedly. This in turn brought about the revival of Orthodoxy (though the Orthodox won't admit he had anything to do with it), which led to the return of Russian Christianity, which, ultimately, means that John Paul was also responsible for the consecration of Russia, requested by the Virgin Mary herself when she appeared at Fatima.
Write about that.
>>7947014
lel, she's brainwashed by the Party. There's not an ounce of communism left in China. They're corporatist-capitalist with a dash of mercantilism. Been that way since Deng.
How the fuck can people complain about having to write essays? You probably type over 3000 words a day on this piece of shit website. How hard is it to shit out some essay? Yeah you probably won't get an A since you waited until the last minute but you'll probably pass.
Now try studying engineering and waiting until the last minute. That's true fear.
>>7946005
The guy who*
>>7947020
I hate how you guys always default to 'brainwashed' when talking about the Chinese. We were discussing politics pretty intensely before then, and I've found that in general a lot of Chinese know more about their country's severe problems than the average westerner tends to.
>>7947032
Well, yeah, they know more than us because we hear almost nothing about daily life in China. The government keeps a pretty tight lid on what goes on in the country.
The fact remains that if she truly thinks China is still communist she's swallowed the CPC's lies.
>>7947037
I meant they know more about their own problems than we tend to about ours. I work with an SOE in Guangdong, a car company, and I've met a lot of stupid Chinese who parrot Party lines but I've also met a lot who are very humble and thoughtful about their politics.
>CPC's lies
They lie about a lot but in ideological terms they're pretty honest. That shit is taken very seriously over here. I've seen fights break out over it. Even if you disagree with their interpretation of 'socialism', once you've spent enough time with Party members and representatives you realise that there's a lot less cynicism about it than we assume.
>>7947032
'brainwashed' should really be the default when talking about everyone. It shouldn't even be an insult really, it's just a reality of how people think, and where their beliefs come from.
Write about what you know.
You should have enough material to write 3000 words on how shit you are at fishing for help on your homework from 4chan.
>>7947046
Okay, fine, so they're not lying, they're just kind of nutty. Are you seriously saying that they think their economic system is still communist, even after all the changes that have been made?
They don't even guarantee health care and a pension for everyone any more. Mao's Iron Rice Bowl is dead. How is that socialism/communism?
>>7947108
To the Chinese socialism is defined primarily by public ownership of the means of production rather than by social welfare - and at my guess something like 60% of the economy is still SOE-driven, with the rest controlled informally and loosely by mechanisms such as CPC shareholders in private companies, patronage, etc. And the Party includes a lot of billionaires and capitalists but as an entity still (somehow) manages to sit apart from them, making it something very different to, say, Japanese or Korean oligarchic capitalism. A native capitalist wants to do business in China he has to either get very good at bribing folk (riskier and riskier these days) or become a 'safe' communist entrepreneur, which requires all kinds of private and public commitments that are very hard to shirk. From what I've heard the admission of capitalists into the CPC has changed the capitalists far more than the Party. I'm not saying all this as some true believer in glorious Chinese communism, mind - I'm saying this as an objective account of what I've seen.
Even if we can't call China socialist in the old Eastern Bloc sense, it's definitely not capitalist either. I'd call it socialist in the sense that the people here have a very elaborate definition of what they call 'socialism' and they (generally) sincerely believe in it.As a matter of fact I think the way it uses market mechanisms is ingenious and I hope it can be reformed into something a lot less corrupt in the future, but that's a sentimental dream of mine.
>>7947149
To me it's pure oligarchy. Hell, it might even be described as fascism. China does check a lot of the boxes off of being a fascist state, given the public ownership you've mentioned, its glorification of the state and the party, the intense pressure it puts on citizens to sacrifice for the nation, etc..
Granted, you could also call the United States a fascist nation. Maybe the US has always been a little fascist.
Regardless, I just don't feel comfortable calling modern China socialist. It's so much its own thing compared to both classic Marxist socialism and the social democracy of Western Europe. It needs a new name, if anything.
>>7945136
Why does it need a certain word count? Just seems like bullshit padding to me. Completely unnecessary if you can get your point across in fewer words.
>>7947183
The US did have pronounced fascist leaning until fascism in Europe became a boogeyman.
Then we just called our fascist leaning something else.
>>7945136
Something somethibg Max Weber..
Protestant work ethic
>>7947193
Seeing as how 3000 isn't actually all that much, the teacher might be seeing how well students can balance between detail and generality in a limited space.
>>7947183
To be fair on the Party it actually encourages a less violent and militaristic nationalism than people actually want. The Party doesn't like nationalism so much as it's wary that nationalism is a great way to undermine communist ideology (they are obsessed with the fall of the USSR). So it'd rather sit on top of it than let anyone else use it, but they don't like to encourage it too much.
>>7947211
Well they've kept the pope away, so that's one thing they're doing better than the Soviets.
flip the script and write an essay on how christianity inspired communism
>>7947211
>they are obsessed with the fall of the USSR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_National_Power
They're so obsessed that they created a power ranking chart which would place USSR lowly so they don't fall into the "Konunktur uber alles" trap.
>>7945136
Talk about Pope John Paul II.
Talk about the CIA having Italian Americans write to family in Italy to support Christian rather than Communist candidates.
>>7947015
More of this
>>7946034
communism =/= marxismespecially cultural
>>7945991
>reason
LE SCIENCE XDDDDD
>>7945268
>Christianity played a big role in many European so called Communist states.
No it didn't.
>It's only propaganda that says that they were anti religion.
No it isn't. They killed thousands of priests and nuns and imprisoned thousands more and banned religion from the public sphere. This statement just might be the most retarded one I've ever read on 4chan, and this includes /his/ trying to discuss metaphysics.
>Same with saying they were anti nationalism.
They were, you got jailed for expressing your national pride and they spent decades on propaganda against national states as genocidal constructs making up death camps with alleged millions of deaths.
>So if you can't come up with anything mainstream talking points, then go with arguments that are against mainstream.
I hope OP isn't mentally retarded like you, honestly.
>>7947149
I think it is a mistake to think China is communist as it's closer to a standard fascist totalitarian country. But than again, the line between fascism, communism and just totalitarian systems is so thin it's hard to differentiate them and an argument could be made either way.
just copypaste(trascribe) random part of books of dostoeywski what ever. who the fuck would even read that? lmao
op here, just started writing
i have 6 hours left to beat this shit out
god help me
>>7947862
damn, good luck senpai
>>7947226
This is the best way to go about it.
The way to get a solid B is to write a well researched, well written paper with clear logical formulation.
The way to get an A is to reframe the context of the paper and blow your professor's mind.
>>7947862
>>7947862
Get off /lit/ as a start maybe?
>>7947862
>>7947884
>>7947886
we steamrolling through this shit senpaitachi
>>7945136
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVW8gcse4g#t=2m15s
>>7945136
When I was an undergrad historian at Cambridge I did all of the required reading and wrote my entire essay in the twelve hours before the submission deadline. I did this every single week and I graduated with a strong first.
Get a grip you fucking pleb.
>>7945268
If this is true, why is 'Pope John Paul II Elected' a US event and not a USSR event in the popular card-driven boardgame Twilight Struggle?
>>7947887
Pro-tip: write the introduction and conclusion first so you know what to write in the middle.
>>7947900
bad tip
only 2000 left to go!
>>7947997
nice
>>7947908
That's how you're supposed to write essays if you intend to have any kind of coherence and focus in your essay.
>>7947833
'Totalitarian' is a fallacy, a Cold War buzzword. In reality there are significant differences between all kinds of 'totalitarian' (read: not liberal and capitalist) societies, so many as to make the word meaningless. Please try to read up on these things harder.
bump for update
>>7948078
falling severely behind schedule, I'm at 1.5k now and gonna start bullshitting
>>7948092
you can do it anon
>>7948047
i think you're supposed to write random shit and develop an argument as you go along then write a intro that makes it look like you had a plan going in
>>7948077
Totalitarian has a pretty strict definition in legal theory, I have no need to read up on it specifically because a retard on 4chan told me it is a buzzword.
>>7948106
this.
WE 2K NOW
>>7948110
Pretty sure there's a large number of people - not even DINDU NUFFINS, just academics - who dispute the theory of totalitarianism, Amerifat.
>>7948143
Not really, or at least it cannot be said it is accepted.
I'm also not American, ex commie country here.
The main element that is commonly accepted where the expression comes from is desire for total control over people in their private lives. So a country which is actively penalizing having children and goes out of its way to brainwash people (we had a Chinese in our school who when asked about China spoke about how great and powerful military it has and how it will win over the western capitalism) is pretty totalitarian.
>>7948198
>ex commie country
Opinion discarded. You guys are the only people more delusional than the yanks when it comes to political theory.
>>7948310
So basically you can discard half of the world arbitrarily because you don't like it?
>>7945136
>he browses a literature board
>he can't right 3000 words in one day
>>7948354
>browsing a shithole makes you a writer
Communism hasn't yet fallen. Brace yourselves comrades and let the world revolution begin!
>>7947193
yeah, why not just give the teacher a list of books on the subject and tell him to do his own research, or better yet link him to this thread
>>7948354
This. I write at least 3000 words of shitpost in a day. This post contributed to today's 3000 words.
>all these people thinking it's easy because it's just 3000 words
Have you never done an essay? The problem is the bibliography, not the amount of words. I've had a 0% once because according to the professor "the bibliography was too small for an essay that long"
if all it took was writing what you knew it'd be easy, but you have to write what you know and then attribute that to whoever said it first
>>7945136
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIbmCOm8jFs watch this
and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCcDH9Mp4w
>>7948400
this.
fuck that shit man
>>7948400
??
I never had a problem with that, I usually have about a page of references after every 5 pages. Use google scholar or books or go to a library if you have so little idea as to how to look for information.
>>7947032
But China is by no means communist. It's simply not true if you look at their economy. Communism does not mean state controlled capitalism.
>>7948428
what kind of subjects do you usually work on, though? Look at op's post, his essay is on the influence of christianity on the fall of communism
that's history. That means there needs to be pretty much half a page of footnotes per page
It's over, friends
It's all over
>>7948533
nice
what's the final word count?
>>7948543
2800
The 3K had a +-10% leeway so it's ok
>>7948569
by this thread's account, this essay took you 21 hours
>>7947820
>They killed thousands of priests
They killed priests, yes, but they were not in the thousands upon thousands. And it mostly happened shortly after the revolution. The USSR allowed the practice of religion in private. I mean, I dislike the soviets, but the way they treated religion was grossly exaggerated. There's a reason that the orthodox faith still dominates Russian culture after the fall of the soviets.
>you got jailed for expressing your national pride
again citation needed. Have you ever seen a soviet war film? or look at the Khmer Rouge. They were named after the largest ethnic nationality in Cambodia? They're all based on some form of nationalism. Hell, the Yugoslavs were federalized during soviet control based on ethnic regions.
>>7948572
no, I started writing it this morning at 10am
>>7945385
Кaк ты, тoвapищ? Mы хopoшo cпpятaнo здecь , нa caмoм дeлe . Хa ! Coвeты и литepaтypa, a?
OP. Share your essay for us to critique?
Is it true that without Christianity that the world would be 1000 years more advanced technology wise.
>>7945268
(not true by the way)
>have eight days to write essay
>currently on day 9, skipping work and probably going to get fired
>have done nothing
>masturbated 5 times already today
>>7945136
Look up Poland and Tarkovsky. Write 5 pages on each
