Anti-capitalism

Americans shared a set of three core beliefs in the 1950s known as the Liberal Consensus. Firstly, all social problems can be solved through economic growth under capitalism because everyone will benefit. Secondly, it is the duty of the United States as a democratic society to stop the spread of communism. Finally, pluralism prevents authoritarian government takeover. Several circumstances reinforced these attitudes: The Baby Boom of the 1940s and a subsequent increase in GNP; the spread of…

normalizes planned economic reforms based on neoliberal capitalism in favor of big business by marginalizing the nature historical events critiquing the negative aspects of capitalism. For instance, within the plans for the Canadian Museum of History by the Conservatives to celebrate the centennial of the Great War, the Canadian Museum of History were not given any plans to recognize struggles against the precived inequalities of capitalism; amoung these struggles was the upcoming centennial of…

Marx’s theory of social development is also known as ‘dialectical materialism.’ Marxian materialism implies that ideas, institutions, philosophies, religions, etc., all are determined by real material condition of life and social classes. Marxian materialism simply means that men's economic activities are fundamental and they determine the general way the character of everything else they do. Marx got the idea of ‘dialectics’ from the German philosopher Hegel. According to the dialectical…

concept of owning private property, such as wealth or land, leads to slavery and abolishing this concept will stop the enslavement of the proletarian. This quotation is important in understanding the Marxist ideology and the Marxist perspective on capitalism because it shows the bourgeoisie enslave and use the proletarians for their own selfish needs. Frederick Engels statement shows how the bourgeoisie have all the power and wealth but it is due to the enslavement of the poorer proletarian…

as a whole. The controversial ideology of socialism has been a topic of discussion for decades. America has been so passionately anti-socialism that they were in an arms race with Russia for decades because of it. The threat of no free market is such a terrifying notion that America and Russia threatened to blow up the whole world because of it. Americans value capitalism as if it is a social more, but in reality, it goes against the most sacred values of society. The brainwashing that America…

As any American teen that has been exposed to pop culture or any form of political media knows, Communism is the root of all evil. Many people would laugh at that statement while also acknowledging that there is some truth to that – at least in America –. The very fact that it 's this widely understood notion that teens do not even question it says something about its depth in American history. So, it’s time to understand Communism and its impact on American society and politics. However, since…

that it has overcome. Basically, overcoming these partial wholes/ moments to reach the whole defines Hegel’s dialectical process. Evolution of ideas takes place through the dialectical process. Every idea, every thesis incubates its opposite – the anti-thesis. The conflict between the…

Throughout history, humans have been using political ideals as a means to gain power and keep people from living in complete chaos. In the course of human history, we have seen political ideologies evolve in ways that have propelled nations to greatness and in the same way plunged nations and civilizations into ruin. However, many of these ideologies, in idealized societies would be able to flourish and sustain the populations with minimal complication. I believe that of the ideologies that we…

and Vietnam17. Although these countries were all self proclaimed Marxist nations, they all operated in their own different Marxist form. Once the 21st century took off, many Latin American nations decided to make a change and elected socialist and anti-imperialist parties into their governments. This change in governments across Latin America has adopted the name, the ‘Pink Tide’18. This trend was heavily dominated by the election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and later the election of Rafael…

however, are coming to realize that the state of our democracy, founded in ideals of freedom and equal representation of our votes and voices, is a lie. Thanks to the historic campaign of Bernie Sanders and his growing social justice movement, an anti-establishment political revolution has begun to uncover the corruption, greed, and inequality that is embedded into our political system. A system designed and ran by the capitalist elite for the benefit of the capitalist elite.…