Was the main motivation for the Europeans Diamonds
After their respective revolutions, both China and Russia worked towards developing Socialist societies that worked for the poor.
Early Maoist thought was closely to aligned to Russian Marxism, but later on diverged towards a more 'peasants revolution' compared to Russia's 'workers revolution'
The Chinese Communism also lasted far longer than Russian communism , which experimented with a market based system early on.
The year 1969 (not 1968) in the united states brought the beginning of a new political era and dealignment. The result of dealignment in the contemporary era voters, realignment do not seem to be as straightforward as they formerly were, partly because of the phenomenon of dealignment. Over the previous fifty years’ party credentials seems to be weakened among American voters with more desiring to call themselves as independents. Not only take ties to the two major parties declining in recent years but voters are less eager to vote a straight ticket or upkeep all candidates of one party for all positions.
