Anti-capitalism

” by Hans Weingartner is a drama about three young activists who believed that something needed to be done to bring awareness of the growing disparity in wealth between the rich and the poor. Similar to Karl Marx’s analysis of class struggle in capitalism, Jan, Peter, and Jules blamed their poor living conditions, and those of the lower class, on a greedy and exploitative capitalist system controlled by the wealthy; where low-wage labor is used to produce products that reap high profits for…

Philosophers have given various propositions as to how society as a whole has changed throughout the course of time. Engels first lays out the fundamental warfare between socialism and capitalism and then explains what he calls “Material conception of history” (Engels 1939, p. 292). In his materialistic history, he claims that the trade of products and their production is the basis of every social order (Engels 1939, p 292). Engels states that in every society that has permanently appeared of…

In the excerpt from Anti-Duhring, called Theoretical, through his historical materialism approach, Friedrich Engles explains that the capitalist mode of production has a fundamental contradiction and by using examples of social and economic struggles, he further validates his position for the basis of the contradiction. By examining these social and economical examples, Engles attempts to demonstrate that over time, capitalism will fail and socialism is the favorable choice. In his article,…

have the power to police states when choices like that are made. Federalism is important in being the voice and power of reason. Some choices that are not infringing on other’s rights and only need to happen at state level make sense in supporting anti federalism, but there needs to be a balance between the two just as there is the problem with antifederalism there are holes in federalism. Balance between power each government has…

Capitalism has become the dominant economic system after the fall of the Soviet Union and its communist government. This has led to capitalism becoming engrained into our society as something that should not be questioned. Time after time, capitalism is seen as the good guy, as something to fight for. The Cold War was not just against communism but it was also for capitalism. The Cold War can be seen as a pro-capitalist fight against the supposed evil of communism. Although the Soviet Union did…

reader a variety of key themes in examining what border imperialism is. She describes borders as having characteristics of territorial, political, economic, cultural and social control (p. 22). Borders are a means of displacing individuals due to capitalism,…

2017 Theoretical: Engels In the excerpt from Anti-Dühring entitled “Theoretical” Engels takes an historical materialist approach. He indicates that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally contradictory and from this he traces a series of social and economic conflicts that follow inevitably from this basic contradiction. In this paper, I will focus on Frederick Engels views on what historical materialism is and the contradictions in capitalism. This paper will also discuss the…

uniting their markets, societies and cultures, through a series of social, economic change and policies that give them global perspective. Globalization is often identified as a dynamic process mainly caused by the societies living under democratic capitalism and liberal democracy, and have opened their doors to the information revolution, reaching a significant level of liberalization and democratization in political culture in its legal and economic national law, and international relations.…

book, The Communist Manifesto. Their views are pro-communism and anti-capitalism. Communism is when the means of production is equally owned by everyone. Meanwhile capitalism is the complete opposite being private. According to Marx and Engels the nature of capitalism is necessarily exploitative. Marx and Engels both believed that the Proletariat, the working class, was getting stomped on by the Bourgeoisie, the middle class. Capitalism is shown as exploitative by low wages, workers having no…

From the production of fear to advance capital gain as described by Naomi Kline’s work, Mills explains how the notion of capitalism describes the modern man. His classification is the homo Oecnomicus, a form of human who only looks out for himself at the expense of everyone else to reach ultimate gain. In that sense, the creation of the other to maintain the production line of labor as later argued through Marx, reflects the dehumanization and exploitation of the worker. Such belief and…