BPP’s Organizational Analysis 1. Mission and Vision: “The Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP) strives to be a leading artistic force in the production and encouragement of new plays. The BPP provides opportunities for development, education, and production for promising and established writers and theater artists in a professional environment.” Values: “We are an advocate for playwrights and new plays and believe firmly that they are not only important but absolutely vital to the future of…
the “means of production” in the hands of those who are the sole producers of the materials and wealth, the proletariat (Brians, “Marx and Engels the Communist Manifesto). This brings society into a positive direction because it allows each person to work according to his ability and needs and makes everyone part of the same working class. It also allows society to function with a reward system that properly motivates workers and makes room for public ownership, planned production, and more.…
(Economic) In any kind of economy, it is the factors of production that hold all the control, which include land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. In capitalism, most of these means of production, like the capital, are kept private. This means that rather than the government owning a specific business, individuals own it. Another way of putting this is that capitalism is a free market-based economy. The company itself decides what goods and services to provide and how they are going to sell…
of the most influential and insightful analyses in modern intellectual history” (p. 384). During the height of the Industrial Revolution, Marx and Engels challenged the structure of capitalism. They argued that the people who owned the means of production…
According to Marx, the proletariats are exploited by the bourgeoisie since the bourgeoisie have exclusive control over the means of production. This mistreatment of the proletarians was a direct result of Marx’s conflict theory and the idea that the dominant group, the bourgeoisie, will mistreat the subordinate class to maintain control of the power and means of production. The alienation of the workers then leads to a workers’ revolution which then results in what Marx would consider the…
rest of society. Karl Marx understood that production is not an individual effort, but a collective one. The division of labor was divided into…
when the production or operating cost does not increase linearly without increase in the output levels and all the fixed costs can be spread over a large number of output units produced. Also true, when operating efficiency increases as training and workers experience improves as well any existing quantity discounts are available for raw and other input material purchased (Russell and Taylor, 2014). The firms increase in capacity using latest machines, technology and more efficient production…
Inequality refers to the existence of unequal access to opportunities and availability of wealth within a society. Unemployment is both a cause and symptom of this problem in the sense that individuals who are unemployed are inherently disadvantaged in their place within a society whilst economic inequality also produces the inability to find work. Economic inequality should be viewed under the scope of class, the implicit (or sometimes overt) hierarchies or social forces in societies that…
contradictions of liberal capitalism (Leedham). He believed that capitalism lead to the subjugation and alienation of mankind (Leedham). Capitalism, for Marx, was defined by the mode of production, or the economic system (Leedham). In capitalism there is a small group of owners, known as the Bourgeoisie, who control the means of production as well as the labor force (Leedham). This labor force, the Proletariat, must sell their labor to produce objects that will be sold on the market (Leedham).…
Zall Hirschstein Bard College Chilton - FYSem 3rd Essay Marx/Locke; Labor <-> Property? Communism has certainly been through its dramatic rises and falls throughout the last century and a half, but likely its greatest power was held in the writings of Karl Marx. Marx used economic and sociopolitical investigation to critique and investigate both the systematic evolution of the capitalist system and the role of class struggle in economy. This is especially demonstrated in his text The…