Eco-socialism

Adam Smith was an economist from the mid-late 1700’s and he was able to explain the knowledge of Capitalism; elaborating on how to make money from the free markets that was influential to survival at that time. He wrote a book, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which describes the origins of Capitalism in great details with petty examples of this logic set in motion. On the other side of the spectrum, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels both produce a collaborative piece…

The internet, while initially being created by the United States military has changed into a consumer based system creating the most competitive market the world has ever seen (Barbook, 2005). This competitive marketplace introduced has radically changed modern day capitalism with the growth of new and alternative economic models. These models largely being introduced in Web 2.0 and advancing into the current Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 (Aghaei, 2012). The internet has allowed consumers to have more…

Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada studies four historical epochs through the stories of ordinary Canadian citizens (Friesen). Print capitalism, the third epoch, occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and was the time of several technological innovations – the telegraph, railway, the daily newspaper, sound recordings, the photograph, radio, and film (Friesen 108). The print capitalism era, told through the stories and experience of Phyllis Knight…

251) contends, is based on a premis that a peaceful society can only be achieved through socialism, as communist societies maintain that they are often opposed to war, even though the creation of communist states has often been as a result of violent bloodshed. Malešević (2012) refers to Marx view of capitalism as a ‘coercive system’ which would…

Legal scholars have long studied the interconnecting systems of oppression. The imbalances of equality in society have been a difficult concept to comprehend. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze how law and subjectivity intersect with the working poor and unemployed individuals in society. This essay’s aim is to broaden the understanding of the ways in which the notions of law and poverty overlap in society to ultimately reproduce the flaws in the law’s promise to equal justice…

During the 19th century, the world (specifically Europe) was experiencing a massive growth rate within its working class due to industrialization. A new age of freedom had dawned at last, but with it wrought struggle by the European dictators to draw in the reins of the people, while also balancing their considerable advance in wealth. In England, Karl Marx and his followers were fascinated by the question of struggle within the classes—as the gap existed all across the world. This fascination…

Freidrich Engels explores Michel Foucault’s ideas about the organisation of social space through the relationship between social and spatial mobility. In The Condition of the Working Class in England (1945), Engels suggests that social class is dialectically linked with one’s ability to freely navigate urban space, arguing that the city space of industrial Manchester during the ‘hungry forties’ worked as a mechanism of the capitalist state to control the socio-spatial movement of the working…

of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole’ (History of Socialism, Laidler 1968 p.152). Another flaw in capitalism is its chaotic nature. Capitalism is seen as chaotic and unpredictable as it is controlled through a free market and government cannot control every aspect of the economy. Due to this, Marx makes the argument that socialism is a better system as every aspect of the economy is controlled by the government and therefore little to…

tend to think of communism and socialism as synonymous. When either of these ideologies is mentioned, it invokes a certain sense of fear. Much of this fear stems from lack of understanding. Parker, Fournier, & Reedy (2007) defined communism as a society where the community jointly owns all the property and means of production instead of the individual, with the goal of abolishing states and social classes (p. 54). Parker et al. (2007) similarly defined socialism as the belief that the…

The origin of the family, Private Property and the State In the 1884, Frederick Engels write The origin of the Family, Private Property and the State base on Marx 's note. This book illustrate how the change of the “family” meaning, in which the women position in the society transform. He emphasis when a man “take” a woman, and then, he live in the woman clan, it does not a sign of women subordination. Yet the economic power of women. In community, the pairing is not only a matrilinear but…