Karl Popper

Carl Marx was, and currently remains one of the most influential philosophers in the modern world. Marx was a revolutionary communist whose works boasted great influence in the formation of the modern world through inspiring the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century; perhaps most notably, the Soviet Union. Among the many facets of life Marx philosophized, he placed a great sum of interest and influence on the very concept of private property ownership on behalf of a…

As history progresses, many theories were created. Among these many theories is Marxism, which was created by Karl Marx and his colleague Friedrich Engels. They believed that capitalism has its pros and cons when it comes to human progress, however, conservatives such as Mathew Arnold did not share the same opinion. While Arnold argues that capitalism will lead humanity to take a step backwards towards barbarism, Marx believed it will bring humans closer to socialism and away from inequality…

1) What, according to Marx in The Communist Manifesto, must one understand in order to understand the course of historical development? What, in other words, is it that moves history along? The Communist Manifesto opens to the reader by stating, “The history of all hitherto societies has been the history of class struggles”, meaning that there is a perpetual tug-of-war struggle between class status between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (Marx, 1). Marx states that the bourgeoisie are those…

Fall 2016 IPED 202 Final Exam Questions Which of the three findings in the article do you find most troubling about our economy and society? Please list and explain each briefly. (20 points) Unemployment rate increased highly so that people had hard time to find jobs. In the article, the annual survey depicts, "Unemployment skyrocketed to 10 percent and the jobless rate is still a stubbornly high 9.6 percent." Therefore, people hard to earn money if people do not have jobs. As the unemployment…

The Controversies (An analysis of Karl Marx’s book about communism and capitalism.) Who got us working with the communist idea? There are many who wrote about it, but a man named Karl Marx had a strong opinion about it. Karl Marx began studying at the University of Bonn, he had two semesters there. Then he was imprisoned for disturbing the peace, then after he went to the University of Berlin. He received his doctorate from the University of Jena and began working as a journalist. Soon that…

disciplinary power. Through these disciplinary constructs, power becomes the production of individuals. The power of discipline will then be explained through hierarchical gaze, normalizing judgement, and Panopticism. Using these concepts, I will argue that Karl Marx’s concept of class revolution and how his economic fueled revolution is far…

One might have same views, but what is different is that they approach them differently. Adam Smith and Karl marx are two economic philosophers best known for their social and economic thinking on how to drive an economy of capitalist views. These ideas in each of their works the Wealth of the Nations by Adam Smith and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx both portray their ideologies on how a society functions. These ideas still lives with generations and gives lineage to the capitalistic…

However Karl Kautsky explains that “progress is only possible through new ideas which at the outset are put forward by minorities [and] the suppression of the new ideas of minorities in the Party would only cause harm to the proletarian class struggle, and an obstacle to the development of the proletariat” (Kautsky 92). If America is putting down movements of equality and supporting the inequality of minorities then the gap between rich and poor will only widen and the class structure will…

Entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is someone to starts their own business or puts their idea into action with a risk to their own financial good (Study.com). According to the Merriam- Webster dictionary an entrepreneur is someone who creates, manages, and finances a business to make a profit. DEFINED PEOPLE Winston Churchill. He was the Prime Minister of Britain during World War Two(Biography.com). He was also part of “The Big 3” which also included Roosevelt and Stalin, they were allies in WWII…

Karl Marx is often viewed as a father of Socialism and Communism. And he was certainly influential in the German and Eastern European political transformation of the 1900’s. Much of his political theory, thought and beliefs are written down in his various works, most famously his Manifesto of the Communist Party in 1848. But his later works, including A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy(1859) specifically lay out his beliefs on liberal democracy and individual rights and why they…