Karl Jaspers

Marxism has been used to attempt to explain the capitalist conditions under apartheid in South Africa. Capitalism took the form of exploitation for profit under the oppressive apartheid system, as black labour was institutionalised as cheap, or rather, cheaper than white labor. Furthermore, the system ensured that black workers were only taught to serve their white masters, such as woodwork or gardening, while whites could receive education in any trade and thus receive higher wages. Racism is…

Isn’t it funny how as the people who created money, our society is now ruled by it? Money drives people to do irrational things, sometimes even at the cost of others. Take the example of foreign workers. Times have moved on. Society has changed. Singapore has become a more developed country. Then why are foreign workers still being subjected to such horrible working conditions? They are not any less human than us. We have families. So do they. We have to pay for many things. So do they. We have…

Michel Foucault is a French philosopher and social theorist. Some of his important ideas he put forward are ideas Disciplinary institution, Genealogy, Governmentality, Power-Knowledge relationship, Objectification of subject. Foucault says that his main goal of his work is to understand how human beings are made subjects. He says, “the goal of my work during the last twenty years has not been to analyze the phenomena of power, nor to elaborate the foundations of such an analysis. My…

Karl Marx’s economic thinking or analyses was focused on the factory system. In the first chapter, he began with a quotation from John Stuart Mill in his Principles of Political Economy: “It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being” (section 1). This quote by Marx’s point of view might imply that the use of machines can be reduce the basic value of the products. Capitalists only aim for interest rather than human rights and…

After the Bolsheviks overthrew the Romanoff dynasty in 1917, they instituted communism as the national ideology. Communism is a political theory that advances a classless society where, where property is owned by the government with each person being employed by and paid by the government according to their abilities and need, as deemed necessary by the government (Source). A heightened awareness and concern of communism began to evolve that was legitimate in theory but paranoid in practice.…

INTRODUCTION: Modern economics has overthrown the concepts of old medieval practices.In ancient days ‘work’ is considered as punishment whereas in 16th century as a means to glorify God. The period (1600-1850) can be viewed as a class struggle between landlords and new bourgeois for control of state. Classical economics was one of the elements in this battle. Classical economics refer to a period stretching from introduction of Adam smith’s book ‘The wealth of Nations’ to introduction of Stuart…

He furthermore says that capitalists depend on labour force to work in their enterprise just as workers depend on capitalists to provide their wages, this is regarded as consensus. With regards to conflict, Karl Marx says that there is conflict between different classes, this is known as class struggle (namely the Bourgeois and Proletarians. These too classes had unequal rights and resources the Bourgeois had the advantage and owned most of the lands and resources…

German Culture Culture is the norms that are socially accepted by a society within a territory. Horton and Hunt defined culture as “everything which is socially shared and learned by the members of a society”. The five characteristics that define and make up Culture are learned, social, shared, transmitted and accumulative (Farooq, 2011). Understanding a region’s cultural characteristics can assist when traveling to another region to avoid disrespecting the locals. Germany has a very…

whether you are male or female, whether you are the CEO of a company or a part- time worker in KFC, you all will be treated in the same manner. Would such a world not be the dream that everyone is achieving for? A man born into a wealthy family named Karl Marx specifically proposed the idea of communism, which exactly illustrates this concept of egalitarianism and common ownership of property. He soon became known as the Father of Communism, and was then lauded by the public for his magnificent…

Socl 3013: Sociology of Work Estranged Labour with in contemporary forms of work Karl Marx’s study of estranged labour plays a vital part in understanding today’s contemporary work place. The notion of estranged labour is the separation of labourers or workers from the products of their labor as well as the labor process, their fellow works and from their bodies and human potential. All taken away and alienated by the employers in an attempt to dominant the work force (Marx 1964:111). One of…