Sociological Contribution of Karl Marx Essay

Chapter I Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Eugen Berthold Freidrich known as Bertolt Brecht was born on 10 February 1898 in an upper-middle class family in Augsburg. The director of paper mill, Brecht’s father believed in Catholicism. The interesting fact is that his parents had a mixed Catholic-Protestant marriage and Brecht was mainly brought up by his mother’s Protestant faith. He attended elementary school and grammar school in Augsburg and his patriotism soon changed into pacifism in 1914 when…

John Steinbeck was a communist during the Great Depression. Communism is the idea that the working class shall rise up, in order to establish a society of all people equal in wealth and power. Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men takes place in the Salinas River Valley, California. The story follows the journey of two ranch hands during the great depression. Ranch hands are people who move ranch to ranch working during the season to help ranches. In his novel, Of Mice and…

committee to investigate the matters; the committee later found evidence supporting Ricardo’s claims (Spengler, 2017). However, concern over the matter was already fading as inflation ended and deflation became the new pressing issue, so Ricardo’s contributions were largely brushed…

Throughout history many people have seen how governments change and those changes affect the citizens. Some believe in democracy, others in communism and because of this different believes wars have been made. The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand is a symbolic representation of the author’s beliefs towards Communism. Rand’s childhood experiences influence the plot and structure of the novel. The main character Equality 7-2521 struggles for self-determination in a collectivist society. Rand wants to give…

Power struggle Leads To Tragedy: William Tweed, an American politician from the 19th century, once stated, “The way to have power is to take it.” Tweed implies people must take power from others to be successful. Tweed’s quote connects to the literary theory involving an imbalance of power. Marxism is a literary theory which involves an inequality of power. An application of Marxism to “Ponies”, “Lamb To The Slaughter”, and “The One Who Walk Away From Omelas” reveals imbalance of authoritative…

There are many differences between the structure of the enterprise and the way employees work because two companies come from different countries. First, the difference between power distance. Power distance refers to the degree of centralization of power and the degree of dictatorship in an organization, we can interpret the distance of power as the extent to which members with weak power in an enterprise expect to be unfairly distributed. Daimler is from Germany, where the company pursues a…

By using the Marxist lens to analyze The Great Gatsby, special attention is devoted towards who has wealth, what do they use this wealth for, and what is the result. In the novel, Jay Gatsby is one of those characters with wealth/power. However, Jay Gatsby comes under a different level of wealth/power, he is referred to as one of those people that have “New money” which means newly earned money. By using the Marxist lens to analyze Jay Gatsby’s character, it made me notice that having a plethora…

Can social class affect the outcome of how a person will be in the future? In “Discontent” Michael McGerr focuses on the differences between the upper-ten, the middle class, and the working-class in order to see the differences between each. Wealth is the determinant of how a person is raised and how they will live the rest of their lives. First, the wealthiest class was the upper ten. McGerr writes, “The ‘upper ten’ were no more than a tiny minority, a mere sliver of the nation. Wealthy…

The purpose of Cassirer’s writing of “The Myth of the State” is to clarify how myth was able to capture great significance in the political discourse and thought from Europe and particularly from Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. Needless to say, this occurrence was not an accidental one according to Cassirer. He affirms that myth is not a clump of mistakes, but a way of thinking and symbolizing which remains at the origin of human culture. Cassirer’s own conclusion on myth may…

Eugene Heath, a Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York, reviews the historical development of famous intellectual’s and society’s perception of the relationship between commerce and virtues. Heath introduces his argument by first defining a market and all the aspects and activities associated with it. In Heath’s argument, it’s important to establish this definition in order to analyze and determine how morals relate and function within a market. Next, he asserts that morals have…