Historical materialism

Interplay between Hegelian Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism G.W.F. Hegel proposed that “dialectic” concerned itself with the process which went into knowing the “whole” of anything. Hegel equated “whole” with “totality”. According to him, only the whole is true. The whole is composed of moments that are partial wholes. The relationship that existed between these partial wholes is of prime importance. The whole contains within itself all the moments that it has overcome. Basically,…

gluttonous, self-interested beings who can only be forced to act with the assurance of financial gain. This understanding has it that free market capitalism is a natural side effect of this avarice, this social-Darwinist hunger for supremacy and materialism, and that any system that disregards this imperative “human nature” is censured to proletariat misery. When we remove the capitalist industrialist lenses, Marx says that we can examine and distinguish that there is something, in fact, in…

Perennialism Perennialism asserts certain principles that are foundational to its educational objectives. Among them are the following: (1) permanence is of a greater reality than change; (2) the universe is orderly and patterned; (3) the basic features of human nature reappear in each generation regardless of time or place; (4) human nature is universal in its essential characteristics; (5) like human nature, the basic goals of education are universal and timeless; (6) the human being's…

Mao Tse-tung and Monique Wittig are two influential revolutionary figures whose ideas and works are largely influenced by the social revolution theory proposed by Karl Marx. Mao, just like Marx, pays particular attention to the conflicts of interests between classes and revolution movement as a manifestation of those contradictions. He adopts Marxist theory and adapts it to China, where instead of a proletariat revolution, he considers an agrarian revolution led by the peasant. Wittig recognizes…

play, The Coldest Day of the Year, Jitney, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, known as The Homecoming in its early stages. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom would be written after Jitney but would be produced after it. Ultimately, this will spark the idea of a historical cycle. However, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone established his goal to depict the influence of African roots on African…

forced to participate in, the oppressors are affected as well. Freire poses a solution to domineering structures such as colonialism and their varied forms of violence—dialogue, which, paradoxically enough, can also be the cause. Danticat’s work of historical fiction The Farming of Bones bleeds with an overshadowing of violence on its pages—emotional, physical, and mental. While oppressed characters in The Farming of Bones fight for their lives during El Corte, the massacre over an eight-letter…

In the early periods of Normalization thousands, of Czechoslovaks fled the country which seemed to be a sinking ship. As the months progressed and the Soviet Communists solidified their power in the state borders were closed off and passports confiscated. Anyone who had been in any way associated with the former Social Democrat Party or who supported a free market economy and democratic ideals were immediately black-listed and found themselves unable to obtain work or aid and at the forefront of…

How the architecture of Jay Gatsby’s house from the Great Gatsby movie 2013 is an embodiment of the “American dream”? By Anchal Tibrewal Abstract The author examined the significance of the significance of the American dream in the architecture of film. It is an analysis Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 rendition of The Great Gatsby. Analysis of The Great Gatsby reflected an Art Deco style, the period of 1920s, and the representation of characters in the film. Without the intricate and well-planned design,…

David Williamson is unanimously acknowledged by literary critics as a towering playwright in the contemporary Australian dramaturgy. His main domain is society as a structure with multiple institutions, and individual as its soul. The two entities are in close nexus and are interdependent. A society is what its inhabitants make it. The real essence of an individual lies in his social behavior. The flaws and faults of a person may stigmatize the sacred edifice of the society. Williamson as a…

Name Tutor Course Date After the 9/11 Event In his 2012 book titled, ‘Understanding the War on Terror’, Patrick Coaty discusses issues related to terrorism, especially after the 9/11 attack. According to him, terrorism emerged at the end of the eighteen century in post-revolutionary France. The initial concept of terrorism was a legitimate system of government that used terror to assert its influence. However, the phenomenon of terrorism has taken different guises since its initiation, as…