Eco-socialism

The mental frameworks we use to make sense of the world is known as ideology. Louis Althusser, a French Marxist, described it as “an imaginary relationship of an individual to real conditions of existence”. Althusser’s goal is to display how ideology works and for us to challenge it, he does this by splitting ideology into Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) and Repressive State Apparatus (RSA). In season 6 episode 24 of Grey’s Anatomy ISA and RSA are both used by multiple characters and both are…

Professor Shea English 101 12/10/2017 Capitalism Vs. Socialism: Which is better and which is moral? Socialism is no new thing. It is not new to mankind. It is an idea, the promise of a better life for all, that has been around of centuries. Several nations around the globe have experimented with this economic system, but although it is a system that has been tried, it is not one that is all that true. There have been great strides towards socialism and away from capitalism in recent years.…

Modern Shit The History of Shit by Dominique Laporte explores the function of waste throughout history as it plays roles in the development of language, technological development, and government laws. Correspondingly, the silent film Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, explores the consequences of the growth and use of new technologies in the industrial sphere and critiques the effect that it has on communication. Both texts reference industrialization as Chaplin analyzes the hierarchical…

In Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower the reader sees a society whose commons has been destroyed by large-scale forces such as an alternative-right wing President controlling an inadequate, neoliberal economy, a capitalist civilization which fails to maximize the ‘good’ of all citizens, and a national ideology that is built upon a rigid, outdated set of values. The large-scale failure of the commons coincides with the theory proposed by Hardin about what makes an unsuccessful or…

When reading Karl Marx’ and Frederick Engels’ The Communist Manifesto the same argument is used, they argue that capitalism is an evolution of the feudal economy and call for a proletarian revolution promising a utopia of ‘stateless communism’ once the condition of class consciousness is reached. “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society, has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of…

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a German philosopher and Marxist sociologist who was a member of The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. His works are still acclaimed by the public and they are mostly giving arguments against capitalism, modern technology and the entertainment culture amongst others because they represent, according to him, a form of social control. One of his most acclaimed work, One-Dimensional Man which was published in 1962. We have to keep in mind that he was writing at a…

Gabriel Soriano Professor Jacob PHI 2010 3 December 2017 Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto Authoritarian regimes, restricted freedom of speech, international conflicts. These are some of the factors that are often associated with communism from a modern perspective. Appropriation (and alteration) of Karl Marx’s philosophy for personal gain and quests for power by different figures throughout history created confusion a deviation from Marx’s original Ideas, which were inspired by the analysis of…

Of Mice and Men Summative Essay Life for a laborer in 1937 was a time of progressing personal hardship for many. Workers faced many oppressions while in the workforce. The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck shows the developing 1937 workforce, displaying how many people will face unemployment and competitivity, harsh working conditions, financial stress, and how the future America will establish its workforce. In the early 1930’s, the workforce was remarkably competitive. With the lack…

The film, “The Edukators,” 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…

Anarchism is the idea that all social actions exists without government interference or services. Communism, on the other hand, is Anarchism's polar opposite: it is a system in which government exerts strong control over many services—including amounts that societal members can earn. This paper will: explain both societal systems; it will then point out some differences between the two societies; finally I will argue that anarchy is not practical, and will provide one method in which societies…