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    The Law The article portrays the French revolution after the 1848 revolution; whereas the turning point in France of socialism. The article was written over 100 years ago by Frederic Bastiat, basically describing the law, and the direct force in a society, and quoting Life, liberty, and property play a major role in a free society. Bastiat talks about the force implicated in the enforcement protecting said rights, and should the force keep all individual rights of every person? The ability to…

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    “The Ragnarök” (An Analysis of Karl Marx’ “The Communist Manifesto”) “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of all countries, unite!” Karl Marx “The Communist Manifesto” was a radical piece of literature that had little effect on Marx’ lifetime however, it sparked enormous change in the future. Within the piece Marx outlines the two major classes, the proletariat or working…

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    Bolshevik Women

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    When the communists rose up against the bourgeois aristocracy, the new government preached against the evils of western social conventions which plagued other capitalist nations. They ridiculed the polluted image of the meek western female and raised up a powerful icon of the freed Bolshevik woman. To the rank and file Soviet political theorist, the October Revolution removed the diminutive status of the working class, ethnic minorities, and women. Furthermore, the establishment of the Soviet…

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    Joseph Stalin, a prominent member of the Bolshevik party, and later one of the most important men in the twentieth century, took control of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin. From the beginning Stalin, had a clear vision of the direction the Soviet Union had to take. To Stalin, the answer to strengthen Russia was rapid industrialization. After all, Marxist theory ordained that a socialist society must be highly industrialized with an overwhelming preponderance of workers.…

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    In the novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, he writes about the many different social classes within the story and their different class struggles. The social classes in the story Brave New World share a strong similarity to the social classes that Karl Marx believes in. The social classes in Brave New World are the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, and Epsilons. However there is a difference in how many social classes there are compared to Marx’s beliefs. For example the social classes that…

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    Aldous Huxley writes in his text Brave New World of the pitfalls of a society based on classes with those in the upper classes holding more power than those in the lower classes having virtually no power. He describes this system as the caste system. Throughout the novel Huxley utilizes many examples of class struggle, power vs. powerless, and going against the status quo, which portrays the basic principles of the Marxist Theory. Donald Hall defines Marxist principles in his article Literary…

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    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 (Franks, 30). Marxists began to argue that class is the source of inequality, however, many Marxists differed as to what actually defines a class. Mario Barrera clarifies this by stating that class is a group of people…

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    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…

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    The Jungle Summer Assignment The best way to describe the situation of the working class in early 20th century America is exploitive. The dictionary definition of exploitive is to use selfishly for one’s own benefit. In early 20th century America, exploitation is in every corner of business. Jurgis Rudkus and his family immigrate to America in search of a better life. As it turns out, in late 19th century America, life is even harder. As Jurgis begins to work at his new job at the meat…

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    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…

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