Libertarian socialism

Throughout history, the interaction between revolution and power has been conceptualized in many ways. These theories help explain why individuals will go to such extremes to change who controls the power. But, amongst these theories, there is the resonating question of whether or not revolutions are useful. This paper will explain Michel Foucault 's theory, which shifts sovereign power to the concept of disciplinary power. Through these disciplinary constructs, power becomes the production of…

James R. Otteson has a moral outlook on why capitalism is better than socialism. He mentions a quote from Milton Friedman, “every time capitalism has been tried, it has succeeded; whereas every time socialism has been tried, it has failed.” Capitalism gives people a chance to rise higher above the poverty level and improve their lives. It also gives people the opportunity to start or grow…

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…

Martinez viewed Capitalism as the phase of the Anti-Christ, his work consistently portrayed his interest in socialism. Dr. Martinez viewed socialism in terms of a critique of capitalism, forming alliances between third world countries with rich nations, and finally as religious critique in terms of equality and inclusion. Dr. Martinez widely supported the Marist Utopian Socially…

In the essay “The Noble Feat of Nike” by Johan Norberg speaks about how the shoe company “Nike” effected Vietnam. It describes how the Nike factories use poor countries like Vietnam to gain maximum profit by paying poor wage to workers in return. In addition, they provided workers air conditioned buildings, meal plan opportunities, and insurance in case of any health problems. Norberg argues about how the company Nike isn’t exploiting the worker in Vietnam. In fact, he interviewed workers in the…

Capitalism in our country has grown and expanded to such an extent that it has reached a point of invincibility almost. Capitalism has throughout the years created groups or even categories of social economic class within the population, which has dramatically changed the way we all view each other. Along with inequality, it has created a difficult structure for the people of lower classes to be able to climb up into a higher class to be able succeed in life, which many times fails because they…

Introduction Political system is an important factor which determines the performance of transnational company. Different countries have their different local political institutions. When companies enter a country, they must invest in and seek to gain the organizational legitimacy, at the same time, they also need to consider the societal embeddedness of companies in the institutional context. To some degree, the level of embeddedness determines whether retailers can be accepted by local…

A working-class identity meant a very different thing to the elite then it did to the laborers of the working class. Class divisions between the working and the elite classes became increasingly obvious. “The laborer at wages has all the disadvantages of freedom and none of its blessings” (Brownsen 7). The elite class saw the working class as what James Henry Hammond coined as “mudsills”. The working class at this point in history began to recognize their mistreatment by the non-working class.…

Many men took stride to perceive the social change happening in society. Three men had earned the title of being the Fathers of Sociology. Durkheim, Marx, and Weber both used Sociology as a tool to help explain the idea of modern developments. Durkheim and Marx are the two founders that had vesting variations of how they respectively explained the idea of the modern development. Emile Durkheim believed in the idea of social cohesion to help develop while Karl Marx believed in capitalism and…

In the writing of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, a corrupt society that is based off of greed and self-centeredness is outlined. In this society, a class system that clearly affects how a community is governed is laid out. The political system is designed in a way that serves the leaders when it comes to industry and productivity. Marx goes in great depth, explaining the “exploitation of one part of society by the other” (16). The people of the society are simply means of production and hold no…