Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

If this said culture was only evident through one of his pieces, it would become clear that this opinion or constructed thought was one that was not incredibly valid. But in the case of Karl Marx, this is just simply not true. Just like the aforementioned Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology provides many interesting points and springboards that would help people think about the culture that Marx has developed through his sociological…

Selena Barreira Karl Marx Notes on: The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, and Capital Volume 1 Chapter 26: “The Secret of Primitive Accumulation” In chapter 26 of Marx’s Capital, he discusses a concept known as primitive accumulation and its role in political economy. He begins the chapter describing the process if how money is changed into capital, “how through capital surplus-value is made, and from surplus-value more capital” (461). But through this process there is a never-ending…

Everything you participate in has been given to you by society, including your anti-society music and clothing. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels offer an intensified look at how an individual’s consciousness is formed, through society. Life determining consciousness is a concept that Marx and Engels propose in The Communist Manifesto and The German Ideology. This concept is demonstrated within Lukacs’ work The Historical Novel. In relation to both works, this essay will focus on capitalist society…

The purpose of this paper is to examine Robert Gilpin’s, The Politics of Transnational Economic Relations as well as Robert Cox’s, Gramsci and International Relations Theory: an essay in method. Gilpin’s theory that transnational actors and processes are dependent upon specific patterns of inter-sate relations (Gilpin, 1971, p.404) will be compared and contrasted with Robert Cox’s understanding of Gramsci’s hegemony and how it may be adopted to understand problems of world order. Gramsci’s…

Chattel slavery is the labor of people who were seen and treated as possessions. Chattel slaves were not paid and they made their owners wealthy with the labor they provided. They were seen as money making machines without the regard that they were human just like the people who owned them. The importance of the great slave plantations was that they were the reason the South had a lot of wealth since they took care of the crops that brought money to the South. The social, economic, political,…

Despite debate over the formal qualities of “the precariat” as a distinct class, precarity is generally understood as the subjection to instability, insecurity, and anxiety related to conditions labour and citizenship. Precarity is a material struggle due to widespread neoliberal policies that limit access to forms of social security. But what is the relationship between the materiality and consciousness of precarity? How is precarity an affective consequence of neoliberal strategies, and how…

The Time Magazine article “What Is a Life Worth?” discusses how the government invented a formula to determine the monetary value of a person’s life. The author, Amanda Ripley, poses the question: “Is a poor man’s life worth less than a rich man’s?” Using reasoning and true stories, she concludes that everyone’s life is worth the same regardless of a person’s wealth. I contend the opposite. The government’s method of compensating families after 9/11 was the right decision. It may seem like…

Adam Smith, a world renowned economist born in 1723, laid out a strategy for capitalist trade through his book, “The Wealth of Nations.” The “invisible hand” is vital to our society; when a person pursues their “self-love,” the society indirectly benefits. Famous economist Adam Smith introduced the “invisible hand in his world renowned economic novel “The Wealth of Nations.” Smith explains the “invisible hand” as ‘the subtle market force that helps the supply and demand of products in a free…

Capitalist theory and communist theory have significant opposing views on two major issues; overtime for employees and the scope of government regulation. The etiological foundation of capitalist theory is centered on the free market and personal economic liberties. Capitalism embraces the amassing of revenue, free enterprise, and rivalry; giving the business owner more power and ownership. Communist theory fixates on the awareness of the contributions and influence of the working lower class…

Humans live and act depending on their moral codes. These beliefs dictate what is important in life. So to understand a person’s priorities, one must reach the root of a person’s belief. One thing that often affects a person’s beliefs is society. Specifically, people who live in places like Imperial Russia. Those people’s beliefs were highly affected by the strict class system that was based on wealth and encouraged by Russia. The people, like nobles who had the most money usually held the most…