Karl Guthe Jansky

that improve their own lives and the lives of their families. However, our wants are never quite satisfied because “in the place of old wants, satisfied by the wants of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction” (Marx and Engels, 17). One of these persistent “wants” present in society is the desire for money; even Jesus saw that the “idolizing of money had killed the nobility of the human heart” (Kuyper, 31). Not only did greed and the desire for materialistic wealth…

The era of post-Civil War can be described as an industrial turning point for America. From 1875 to 1900, America began to grow in hopes of becoming a world power in industry. Capitalists laid the foundation to help America develop into an industrial power. There is a common misconception that these venture capitalists were corrupt “robber barons” because of how they were able to get away with making millions of dollars and escaping government control. However, based on actions of capitalists…

Affective Theme Anthem by Ayn Rand is a book exploiting the evilness of collectivism as a whole. The overall theme of the book is individualism. The book follows a young man in the society (Equality) that feels this draw to be something more than what he is told, he is an individual, not a part of the collection. He himself throughout the book explores new ideas and invents and discovers new things, by himself as an individual going against the collective society. Throughout the book, this…

feelings, thoughts, and experience of another without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience full communicated in an objectively explicit manner.” This emotional bond can connect a person to anything, not exclusively a fellow human – in the case of Karl Marx, he experienced this relationship with his homeland of Germany. Although Marx is ruthless in denouncing his home country throughout “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” it does not necessarily follow that…

Marx and other conflict theorists believe that we need inequality to survive, and struggle amongst social classes is normal. The conflict theory is divided into groups with different resources that often exploit and struggle with one another. In the movie Divergent, it showed a lot of scenes throughout that represent conflict theory. In this essay; will point out scenes in the movie that demonstrate conflict theories. First, example of Conflict theory is when the Erudite (the intelligent)…

The liberation movement I am about discuss is the gay liberation also known as LGBT. This group has faced many challenges over the years. The gay liberation main agenda is to repeal discriminatory laws and to gain access to opportunities previously denied to them. Another one of gay liberation movement goals is to overcome mistaken beliefs about and attitudes towards gay people. Also know as homophobic beliefs. The gay liberation also wants to “from a larger, broader and more diverses group of…

You have to know what you would like your result to be before deciding whether to choose Socialism or Capitalism. Capitalism focuses on rivalry and individuality and Socialism is controlled by equalitarianism. They are always pros and cons to everything. These two methods were developed with great conceptions. However, policy maker tends to forget or not see that these systems do not provide control or the freedom it supposes to. Capitalism and Socialism core is on the concept of equality.…

the afterlife, making them feel better about being oppressed and therefore easily manageable by the bourgeoisie. “Marx argued that religious ideology that urged people to obey authority and work hard for salvation in the afterlife was a way in which superstructure justifies the base, because it generates an acceptance of one’s conditions as they are.” (Cole, 2014). Marx argued in one of his most famous publications ‘The Communist Manifesto’ that if religion was no longer evident or at least not…

In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx states, “The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.” In other words, one can say love has been stripped away from intimate relationships, and has been turned into business matters only. One can find themselves under the impression that society has impacted their lives so much that they have forgotten how to live their own everyday life. Based off of evidence from novels…

John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx are two of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time and while they share a few similarities, they are, for the most part, very different. Marx was totally different from just about everyone that had come before him while Mill, on the other hand, did take the basis of his beliefs from Jeremy Bentham, and his father, James Mill but just the basics, as he made major changes and found many flaws with the initial idea of utilitarianism. Mill did agree on…