Eco-socialism

The Roman Empire was an empire that expanded by wars and conquers places. Therefore, the State had many slaves in addition to a steady flow of new people acquired by the conquests to put them to work, and their economy was on exchange of goods and agriculture. The Roman Empire used to collect some sort of taxes from its people to boost its economy in many ways. Those collected taxes were spent for the military expenses at first, and the rest of them were spent at Rome. The Roman economy had…

During the turn of the 20th century the Age of Industrialization was taking place. Monopolists rose to power using many methods to gain control. Most of the working class was abused and taken advantage of and they were treated unfairly. Many people immigrated to the US due to persecution, better financial and political opportunities. While America as a whole would eventually benefit from new inventions and labor unions’ protest, monopolists took advantage of the working class. The new…

Urbanization is a major part of the cutting edge world, without it, we would all be lost. While nations are developing at a quick rate, the once "old" urban communities of the past are growing onto already un-involved grounds and even in some cases making new towns and urban areas. Rural areas of urban areas spring up everywhere throughout the world constantly, and populaces develop with them. Real territories or urban communities of nations are generally center points of monetary criticalness,…

According to Mao Zedong, for China to reach its goal of becoming a communist system it must first undergo a series of reforms which will lead to the creation of a socialist system--the stepping stone of becoming a communist system. Through the implementation of socialist reforms, China will begin to create an equal and just society resulting in the mobilization of China's population--the main actors that furthered the strides to a communist system. There are three essential reforms that China…

A factory is built out of necessity. There is a certain demand for a good or service that influences a wealthy bourgeois man to invest in the means of production of those goods. A factory creates a demand for labor, and the proletariat were eager to fill that demand after they'd been stripped of their previous occupations and traditions. The proletariat lived in overcrowded, filthy, and often dangerous and unhealthy conditions as Engels witnessed. On top of that, the factory owners and their…

Karl Heinrich Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek are the most effective economists. They are also the representative of the Socialist, Keynesian and Classical school of thought. Keynes and Hayek both are the capitalist, but they have totally different ideas on the whether the government should intervene the market. In Keynes’s opinion, government needs to intervene the market and cannot leave the economic drive by itself. Hayek entirely opposed attitude that the market needs to be…

Peter Cooper and the Steam Locomotive The steam locomotive, now known as the train, is very important to life as we know it. The train has has been around for a long time and made life easier for us. Peter Cooper who invented the steam locomotive started the growth of america. This essay will explain everything about the steam locomotive, how it affected America, and the inventor and his life. Peter Cooper was born to a Dutch family in New York on February 12, 1791. When he was young he didn't…

In the reading by Karl Marx “The Grundrisse”, he elaborates on topics like capitalism, machinery, and automation. Also, Karl Marx discusses how machinery is taking over laboring. He states that the production process has ceased to be a laboring process in the sense of a process dominated by labour instead of machine. In addition, Karl Marx makes a comparison between the machine and the worker. He says that the machine consumes coal, oil, etc. while the worker consumes food, to keep up its…

Based on the research I found throughout Thoreau’s writings, as well as the textbook, I have come to the conclusion that the public during this era were very materialistic, and dependent on the concept of industrializing. There was a select few people who called themselves Individualists, that believed “…modern society stifled individual judgment by making men “tools of their tools,” trapped in stultifying jobs by their obsession with acquiring wealth.” The Market Revolution was a time period of…

Though not directly discussion it, Michael Wolf’s picture series clearly illustrates Karl Marx’s ideas of alienation of labor. Marx argues that a worker “does not feel content but unhappy” (6) when he alienates himself from its labor. Wolf exhibit a collection of images of toy factory workers whose working conditions and salaries are insufficient to cover even basic needs. Thus, the illustrates what Marx argued that when a worker alienates himself from his work, “his labor is therefore not…