AP European History Help?

dreamingawake25
Thu, 05 May 2011 19:54:44 +0000

For enlightened absolutism a main ruler was Joseph II. Most of the leaders agreed and supported enlightened reforms, but they didn’t want to loose the support of the nobles, and if they instituted the reforms then they would loose noble support. So it was more of a “theory” almost a politique-y thing. None of them actually did anything with their Enlightened beliefs, except I think that Joseph II freed the Prussian serfs, and that didn’t end well…

Socialism and communism are alike in that both are systems of production for use based on public ownership of the means of production and centralized planning. Socialism grows directly out of capitalism; it is the first form of the new society. Communism is a further development or “higher stage” of socialism.