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the producers with the product, i.e., the laborer is forced to make products that are required by the Producers to be supplied to the consumers to help them maintain a status. And just the way a producer lets go of the employee when he is of no use to his corporate, Gregor’s father does the same. Similarly, “A Raisin in the Sun” depicts the other part of capitalism, the urge to be different, which causes the individuals to alienate from their own selves and makes them want to become what they…

In the very popular comedy movie, Mean Girls, which was produced in 2004, there are many laughs about the high school cliques but there is also psychology throughout the film. The movie stars Lindsay Lohan who plays a 16 years old named Cady Heron whose parents are zoologist who traveled to South Africa and have returned after 12 years. Since she was away she was homeschooled and is attending public school for the first time in Evanston, Illinois. She befriends Janis and Damian who warn her…

throw that term around like we know what it means, but do we? What I have come to realize is that we really can’t have a democracy as long as capitalism is our economic system. If the majority of people in this country do not own the means of production (capitalism), then they do not own or control society (democracy). That is why it is my belief, and I have no doubt that there are other stipulations, that if the majority can somehow gain control of the means of production as socialism…

ownership of the means of production. This leads to the concept of classes, which according to him, are of two types. As he states in Communist Manifesto; “society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (Karl, 1978). He describes Bourgeoisie as the ruling class and proletariat as the working class. For him classes emerge from struggles in capitalist society, which means that the…

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber are three fundamental figureheads in the foundation of sociology who asserted that our lifestyles are products of the society in which we live. They all lived in a period of great social change, that of the Industrial Revolution, and based their writings and musings upon what they observed happening around them and extrapolated as to the condition of the future. One foundational product of contemporary societies, that truly came into existence at the time…

Patrick Jake O’Rourke (1998), who is an American political satirist, journalist, writer and author, stated, “The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen”. Capitalism has affected in the way that modern states develop in terms of business, economy, and politics. In addition, it has several forms, such as enterprise capitalism, social capitalism, collective capitalism, and so on. The definition of capitalism is “a system of generalized commodity…

lenses, Marx says that we can examine and distinguish that there is something, in fact, in human nature and the natural world itself that makes us believe that there is more to the human condition than just rapacity. Human nature, to Marx, was the means by which people change and adapt themselves to meeting their distinct necessities. Marx was not convinced that there was a set, eternal human nature. He understood that the human essence or in other words, human condition, was not chosen for…

Marx’s basic ontological assumptions about humans and the nature of society Ontology relates to the questions of being and reality. Marx ontologically assumed that humans are altruistic, material creatures and are creative in nature. He explains that humans meet fundamental requirements by creating necessities such as food and shelter out of the environment. Producing these items and structures expand the human capabilities and can be seen as a mode of self-expression. Marx elaborates on these…

For this essay, I will be answering question three. Socialism is defined as the political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. In layman’s terms, socialism is an ideology that focuses on the community and a society in which everyone contributes into making and sustaining a home for all. This is talked about widely through the political spectrum with people…

Starting off with Marx concept of alienation, alienation is the dehumanization of wage workers. There are four aspects of alienation , first workers are alienated from the product of their labor, second, they are alienated from the means of production, thirdly, their own being ,and lastly dehumanized from society. When workers are alienated we become less and less attached with ourselves”. For Marx, alienation is inherent in capitalism, because the process of production and the results…