Market socialism

The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned for much of his life by Mussolini, took these idea further in his Prison Notebooks with his widely influential notions of ‘hegemony’ and the ‘manufacture of consent’ (Gramsci 1971). Gramsci saw the capitalist state as being made up of two overlapping spheres, a ‘political society’ (which rules through force) and a ‘civil society’ (which rules through consent). This is a different meaning of civil society from the ‘associational’ view common…

Health and Sanitation, Local Emergency? The health and safety of a countries citizens must be one of the highest priorities in any respectable country. Well apparently in our society, that is not quite the case. Over the past few years many diseases have made appearances all over the United Kingdom. Cholera and Typhoid have all featured in outbreaks over the past half decade. Furthermore, as peasant folk move from there lowly farms to the big cities, and populations increase, these diseases…

“The conditions of the working classes of England” was published by Frederick Engels in the year of 1845 in Germany, 1887 in the United States, and 1891 in England. He spent his time writing from September of ‘84 until March of ‘85. Engles decided to learn about the conditions of the working while he was working in his a factory with his father at the age of 24 in Manchester, England. “Conditions of the working class of England” was written to help people around the world have an idea of what…

with very little in between. The lack of equality and expansion of cities filled with the new working class resulted in the desire of people for more. Following the French Revolution came the first signs of modern socialism and a growing demand for equality. In its purest form socialism calls for a even distribution of wealth and equal rights of all men. From 1815-1848 Britain and France experience strong developing socialist movements that would demand in policy changes and help in getting the…

Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 Italian film that follows a poor working-class man named Antonio Ricci. Antonio lives in Rome in the post-World War II era. Antonio, a family man, is desperately looking for a job, like many other men. He is finally offered a position that brings hope to his family which is comprised of his wife Maria, young son Bruno, and his infant baby. The hope of his family is soon diminished when Antonio’s bike was stolen from him on his first day of work. Most of the movie…

In 1910 Ricardo Flores Magon, a prolific Mexican anarchist, foretold the coming of the social revolution in his article titled “A La Mujer”. “She [the revolution] carries death on her breast… Her fists are the invincible fists of a people in rebellion. She does not offer roses or caresses; she offers an axe and a torch.” Magon 's prediction was published in his magazine Renegeracion less than a month before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. He used this platform to educate women on their…

Both Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx examine the social change that nations go through either as a result of democracy diminishing Aristocratic ages or because of the wide spread of industrial capitalism. However, Marx and Tocqueville observe the impact of these social changes on the community differently. Marx writings are about how the European world was changing during his lifespan. He observes how the beginning of the Industrial Revolution creates an increase in the level of economic…

the flexibility of change, depending on experience, is needed. For example, toy companies know from experience that when Christmas comes around, toys are in more demand, meaning their production should also increase. This unregulated form of free market allows for healthy competition, not only between companies, but between the producers and the consumers. They are constantly competing for a fair price, where the producer makes the money they need, but the worker is not alienated from the…

communism. More specifically, many ideologies that had emerged from this era revolve around the idea of socialism. Ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism in Russia or Maoism in China crop up and create new foes of democracy. Many of these socialist ideologies hold their appeal to groups in the Global south due to their high levels of poverty. Many of these people are stricken economically and find socialism as an escape from poverty as well as promise of security. Despite the democratic victory of…

(Cortez, 2016). However, with such innovations came dramatic effects that impacted the labor force. Through his book, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, well-known Karl Marx, a “German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism” addresses some of the issues that take place. Born into the Jewish middle class, Marx has the opportunity to express his “mainly humanist ethical and philosophical concentration of ideas…[that] foreground the notion…