Karl Popper

may indulge me or not, but I am resolved to provide an extensive review lest my countrymen be under the misconception that The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx will amount to any sort of revolution–Proletarian or otherwise. As I am sure you are aware, this news publication has been a vehicle to countless articles from the prolific socialist mind of Karl Marx; he provides the workingman a voice of lustrous intellect and strength…

In The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels argue that “These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity” (Marx and Engels 18). Respectively, a working person, according to them, becomes a commodity once they start selling their work and compete with other laborers for the buyer. By its definition, a commodity is an inanimate noun and usually applied to objects that are for sale. Therefore, the comparison of a human being to a commodity means the deprivation of one of their…

Picaros are traditionally wanders, slaves to whomever provides for them at the time. In Grimmelshausen’s novel, Simplicissimus, the protagonist of the same name takes on a much different position than seen in other picaresque novels. Simplicissimus himself becomes a master, employing his own servants and gains a legitimate position in society. In the novel Lazarillo de Tormes the protagonist is always serving someone else’s interests. Lazarillo never has complete autonomy and must rely on others…

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a book filled with hope, heartbreak, poverty, and manipulation. It was an awakening to Americans all over to the adversity that the lower-class had to go through. It depicts the corruption and crime on the streets and in large food companies. This novel follows a man named Jurgis Rudkus as he and his wife Ona travel to America with their relatives during the Gilded Age. Upton Sinclair wrote this in attempt to push socialism, but instead enlightened the readers to…

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is an accurate presentation of United States history during the early twentieth century because it correctly depicts the exploitation of the poor working class and eventual shattering of dreams by the wealthy capitalists through: the political corruption such as the party bosses’ constant rigging of elections, the harsh labor conditions and cheating of wages put on workers, and the constant injustices and swindling that the working class endured. Sinclair…

Karl Marx defines another condition necessary to the rise of communism as the intensification of social polarity, and the class antagonisms that follow. The presence of these two conditions is essential to the rise of communism over the ashes of capitalism. Thus, he explains that our age of capitalism “has simplified class antagonisms” and “society as a whole is more and more splitting up… …into two great classes facing each other: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat” (Marx 15). With the…

Name Tutor Course Date Karl Marx and Social Media Ideologies In their paper “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas,” Marx and Engels argue that the nobility or the highest social class present determines the ideas of a particular society. These ideas enable the few members ruling class to control the large masses of the working people. Additionally, Marx and other socialists believed in total control of the media to disseminate only government-approved information. However, such control also…

Marx Alienation was a central concern for the young Karl Marx. Discuss the dimensions of this alienation in connection to Marx’s critique of capitalist society, and comment on the contemporary relevance of this concept. Karl Marx was a philosopher and sociologist in the 1800’s. His Ideas and theories about society and the economy are some of the only ideas that have stood the test of time and are still relevant in modern society. Marx in particular was interested in alienation, especially of…

Karl Marx was the type of man that believed in what he stood for because there was always an issue with the people that wanted to be a capitalist instead of being communist and being equal an sharing all the good that came about being in a community that…

Human nature is a way to describe the characteristics of individuals, which relates to the formation and organization of society because of the morals and desires fueled by dominant voices, or collective voices. Human nature, with a Marxist viewpoint is a way for individuals to view themselves as a member of a species, within a society that follow certain guidelines and rules in order to sustain the binary of society. The binary of society exist within the work of these theories to conceptualize…