Karl Guthe Jansky

Fredric Bastiat and Karl Marx thought themselves to be able to see the future, to be able to see where history was going, to where the world was progressing to. Perhaps they saw themselves to be men of vision, able to predict not only how things would become but how they should become. Whether one considers them to be visionaries or perhaps men with high and unobtainable ideals, is up to one’s self. By some they were thought to be visionaries, some took their words to heart, others would…

Although many valid points were made in The Communist Manifesto, a few fatal flaws exist in his ideology. The United States has tried communism, but it was not until this system’s failure that property rights and capitalism took hold. Although many valid points were made in Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, a few fatal flaws exist in his ideology. The United States has tried Communism, and it was not until communism failed that property rights and capitalism took hold. In 1607, 104 settlers…

Marxist Theory Applied to Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck The struggle between socio-economical classes is what pushes the future forward. Classism proves that discrimination between the oppressed and the oppressing causes division of people. Karl Marx developed a theory that explained these situations, the Marxist theory. This theory can be applied to nearly every point in history and to every culture. Through a Marxist lens everything can be explained including the discrimination between…

Living in times which Francis Fukuyama famously described as the ‘end of history’, when the last great bastions of communism fell together with the Berlin wall more than 20 years ago, is it still possible to call Marxism the ‘philosophy of our time’? Karl Marx was the philosopher of the 19th century and the situation today has largely changed. One would be in denial if not admitting that many of Marx’s predictions didn’t come true.…

During the 1960s and 1970s two schools of thought took prominence in sociocultural anthropology: development and underdevelopment theory, as well as, the world-systems theory; which, in combination with the key tenets of Marxism laid the foundation of a new critical perspective called anthropological political economy. A precursor to the modern form of “political economy”, referred to now as “classical” political economics, has been dated to the eighteenth century, this later divided into the…

economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market”. Karl Marx was a socialist, born in Prussia in 1818. He is considered by many to be the father of modern day communism. Marx and his followers were very critical of capitalism for three main reasons. This essay will distinguish and evaluate the…

Sociologist Robert Merton had a theory of people’s experience frustration. There are five modes of adaptation that Merton outlined. The first deviant reaction is conformity and this most of America. There was point in time when going to a university was not that important. The way America is now it is very important to go to school and get a higher education. So, a lot of people are conforming to the new way of society. They’re a lot more teens going to college from high school and there…

Friedrich Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class to express his view of how the middle class pictured workers in 19th century England. He argued that while industry and commerce was abundant and thriving, he realized industrialists fed on the association of the accumulation of wealth and the dwindling of wealth. When discussed upon the standard accepted definition of economic strength, it suggested Engels was fabricating his personal accounts with the concept of societal separation. The…

This paper aims to portray the world system as a primary cause of global economic inequalities. First, it will introduce Marxism, which would be used as a theoretical framework for subsequent analysis of how the world system is the primary cause of global economic inequality. It will then move to the contemporary global political economy and then illuminate the extent to which Marxism explains the phenomenon of global inequality and the relevant Marxist argument about the consequences of global…

Marx and Huxley In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World the fundamental concepts in the “perfect society” where social stability, social control, class struggle, and religion. Karl Marx a German philosopher and social critic, whose ideas about control, communism, and class structure can easily be interpreted in Huxley’s Brave New World. Marxist ideas were essential for the “perfect society”. Marxism is the theory of class struggle, economics, and materialism in any given society. In every…