COLLECTIVISM

(Prerequisite: American & World History)

Collectivism PACES 133-138

A course tracing the history of collectivism, starting with the revolt of Satan and the subsequent fall of man, and concluding with a detailed look at the major twentieth-century “isms” of communism and fascism. The study is specially designed to give the student an awareness of the satanic, humanistic, and conspiratorial aspects of those ideologies from a Christian point of view.

 

133 An introduction to the origins of collectivism in the revolt of Satan, the fall of man, and the construction of the Tower of Babel, followed by a delineation of the classical and neo-classical utopian theorists.

134 An examination of the development of Continental European, British, and American socialist movements from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries.

135 A description of communism in ancient Greece and Rome, and investigation into the order of the Illuminati, and a discussion about the French Revolutions of 1789, 1848, and 1871 with a special contrasting section concerning the Wesley Revivals in England and the Awakenings in America.

136 A review of the philosophical and subversive precursors to modern Marxist Communism, and inquiry into the lives of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and an in depth analysis of the theory of Marxism.

137 A history of the 1905 and 1917 Russian Communist Revolutions, the 1912 Chinese Nationalist

Revolution, the 1948 Communist takeover of China, the circumstances leading up to those events and the men who made them happen.

138 An explanation of the precursors to modern fascism, an account of the fascist movements in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and Argentina, and a consideration of Nazism in the German Third Reich.