Futurist Manifesto

Published during the height of the European revolutions in 1848, the communist manifesto remains one of the world’s influential manuscripts in politics. Its authors, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were not only social scientists, but also political and economic theorists. The manifesto provides a clear summary of the basic ideas of communism. It has also had a deeper effect on the world’s intellectual and political history than any other pamphlet since its publishing. It provided the necessary…

Since the initial publication of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto in 1848, his work has sparked a variety of reactions and debates around the world. Deemed as one of the most influential and still relevant pieces of political propaganda today, the Communist Manifesto inspired nation building and affected social, political, and economic policies throughout the world. The Communist Manifesto outlined Marx’s vision of a socialist society, where everyone was equal, class hierarchies were abolished,…

works that have been published ever since. This progress is best exemplified with Breton’s original manifesto and Anais Nin’s more recent novel, House of Incest, where there is a similarity in content but a separation in structure. Nonetheless, this progress is undermined by an inherent failure to express the ideas in surrealist thinking efficiently by both Nin and Breton. Within Breton’s manifesto and Nin’s novel, there are a number of similarities…

Wanderlust The work of art titled “The Tilled Field” by Joan Miró is an excellent example of a work that is part of the Surrealist movement. An oil painting on canvas completed in 1924, the work is possibly the most important and well-known work by the Spanish born artist. After being his career painting working on mare traditional still-lifes and landscapes he later transitioned into more contemporary styles of art. Never openly affiliated with a specific school of art, he produced pieces that…

and critiqued these families and individuals because he believed as property owners; they would need to hire people in order to operate the property. His idea of discarding the middle class was revealed in the third idea of his book The Communist Manifesto. It states, “Abolish of all right of inheritance” (Marx and Engels 124). If this were to happen, those with inheritance to receive would not quietly sit by, as no one would voluntarily hand over his or her wealth. Marx assumed this would be a…

John Steinbeck was a communist during the Great Depression. Communism is the idea that the working class shall rise up, in order to establish a society of all people equal in wealth and power. Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men takes place in the Salinas River Valley, California. The story follows the journey of two ranch hands during the great depression. Ranch hands are people who move ranch to ranch working during the season to help ranches. In his novel, Of Mice and…

education so things had to change. Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto so that the world could hear what he has to say about how owners of the factories and business men could become rich. The Communist Manifesto let the employees see that they needed to start a group (Unions) to be getting the benefits they wanted. They got higher wages, better conditions, and got their children out of the factories and back in school. The Communist Manifesto said “Free education for all children in public…

At the time of the publication of the manifesto, Europe was still reeling from World War I and art was very much political. Breton and other surrealists wanted to break free from the conventional art of the times and express the imagination as revealed in dreams. Thus, the Manifesto of Surrealism came about, in which Breton discusses the importance of merging dream and reality. Though at its inception the movement…

Life in the Iron Mills exemplifies the struggles that face many “have-not” citizens that authors throughout history have been discussing. Life in the Iron Mills is a tragic yet poignant story of the effects of a man’s socioeconomic status. Although set in the nineteenth century, the story is all too familiar. The short story begins with a reflective narrator begging the audience to read the story with an open mind not tainted by the ideals of high society (Davis). The narrator suggests the…

Of course, Pateman goes on to tell us why, elaborating on the implict agreement in a social contract which privileges men in society to formulate the social contract; that implicit agreement, that ‘contract-within-the social contract’ (so to speak) is what Pateman calls the sexual contract. It is the unspoken agreement(s) about the place of women in society, as decided by men that Pateman tries to elucidate, much like Mills in discussing racism and the racial contract (implicit in the social…