Karl Otto Koch

After returning on from studying abroad and learning about the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Pol Pot was driven to create a classless, corruption free society in Cambodia. The leader before Pol Pot Sihanouk had fought for Cambodian independence from France and received it. The economy was poor at the moment especially since Sihanouk…

The United States of America has operations that lead to its prosperous economy the nation is recognized as capitalist for its focus of opportunity. For one scarcity is highly taken in to account when distributing a product. The law of demand extends to the labor force and consumption. The most crucial concepts within the economy of the United States are scarcity, law of demand, and capitalism. Those concepts do and will apply to the way I live by limiting certain resources and making me aware…

Marx also claims that capitalism is a dehumanization process that produces alienation. The objective of corporations is to try and make as much profit as they can. More workers naturally mean obtain more product quicker. However, because of the new technological advances, they found a new means to replace hand labor with machines. Marx sustained that “Capitalist seek to replace workers with machines” (qtd, in Handout book 17). Machines like railroads, steam engine, and telegraphy made the…

Karl Marx once said, “To be radical is to grasp things by the root” (Marx, 2009). I suppose that sums up Marx’s attempt to analyze and theorize on the good, bad, and ugly of capitalism. He believed that humans had potential and that we as both individuals and societies needed to get to the root of the issue suppressing human creativity. According to Marx, the root of this suppression and corruption of human creativity is Capitalism. Capitalism is this continual clash of classes and exploration…

Poor individuals are rarely responsible for their own plight. Instead inequality in society is a key contributor to different levels of class in society. Poverty can have different meanings to different people and different sections of society. However, poverty is typically defined as having little or no money, possessions or means of support. Although it should be noted that there are different levels of poverty and people may fall in and out of poverty at various stages in their life. Poverty…

The theme of alienation, a withdrawal or separation of an individual from an object, position, or value of former attachment and from the individual’s society or family, is one commonly inserted in works of literature to describe a character and reveal the character’s motivations, fears, and desires. The alienated characters are often those who have been marginalized, disenfranchised, or oppressed in some manner, and most commonly, underprivileged. In works with such characterization, the…

1. Power is one of the most misinterpreted concepts. Baldwin, Boulding and Stinchcombe are defining the types of power and the way power functions. In their definitions, they have some similarities as well as differences. All three, see power as multidimensional, but they differ in their further explanations of power. Arthur Stinchcombe sees power as a (subset) of structural phenomena and its interested in understanding power as a social thing. (Stinchcombe, 149) Power is found through the…

Karl Marx was many things, including economist, philosopher, and revolutionary socialist who explored many different ideas. He was born in Germany, but had to move away from the country, as the government did not like his ideas. After moving around a lot, he finally settled in London, where he met and became good friends with a man named Friedrich Engels, who shared the same ideas as him. Living during the industrial boom, Marx had the idea that if factories and businesses were run by the rich…

American and German philosophies are very different in some ways, but very similar in other ways. In this research paper, we will be comparing and contrasting the lives of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Immanuel Kant as well as American and German philosophies and how they differ from one another. Kant was born in 1724 in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia). His parents were Johann Georg and Anna Regina, and they were both pietists. Although, they raised Kant in this tradition…

who had "German blood". Jews and other "aliens" would lose their rights of citizenship, and immigration of non-Germans should be brought to an end. In April 1920, the German Workers Party became the NSDAP. Hitler became chairman of the new party and Karl Harrerwas given the honorary title, Reich Chairman The KPD was efficiently suppressed by the Nazis. Thousands of Communists were imprisoned in concentration camps, including Thälmann and the party's leader in the Reichstag, Ernst Torgler. The…