Marxism

of college that were tremendously more wealthy than me, however, not only were they getting the same education as me, the ones that were lazy or did not posses good work ethic failed in comparison to everyone else, regardless of financial status. Marxism seems to believe that every single thing in society is driven by money which creates power and thus creates divides. This seems overly deterministic to me in terms of trying to plot exact reasons as to why there are inequalities such as in…

Patrick Jake O’Rourke (1998), who is an American political satirist, journalist, writer and author, stated, “The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen”. Capitalism has affected in the way that modern states develop in terms of business, economy, and politics. In addition, it has several forms, such as enterprise capitalism, social capitalism, collective capitalism, and so on. The definition of capitalism is “a system of generalized commodity…

Philosopher, novelist and literary critic. He was born on the 21st of June, 1905. During his life, he was one of the important figures in the philosophy of existentialism and also one of the prominent individuals in the 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy which is basically centred on the analysis of existence, freedom and choice. It is the understanding that humans define their purpose in life and try to make coherent decisions although they…

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…

Sociology is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture (Craig Calhoun (Editor). 2002, Dictionary of the Social Sciences). This discipline, which we were introduced to in High School, was presented to us as emanating from Western Europe. However, due to enhanced knowledge we have come to realized that sociological thoughts can be traced back to the continent of Africa. Noteworthy, to this discussion we can look at the…

Within the past century, various technological advancements have made their impressions on communities all over the world, but the advancement that seems to have stimulated the greatest impact in today’s global society is the digital camera. Constructed in 1975 by Steven Sasson, the digital camera has been utilized as a stand alone product, within cell phones, watch towers, police cars, and in many other industries (“Who Invented the Digital Camera”). The digital camera has managed to reshape…

One of the most popular ones is Marxism, which supports that education reproduces the inequalities and social relations of production of a capitalist society, which is a society controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. (Kellner, 2006). Marxists view the ruling…

planned economy allowed Stalin to hone in on specific goals for Russian. Stalin pushed heavily for increased industrial production, which had been lacking in his traditionally agricultural society. This need for industrialization comes directly from Marxism, where socialism is seen, particularly by Bolsheviks, as an advanced industrial society where the means of production are owned by the workers. Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture was too a step away from capitalism, eliminating a sense…

The Bolshevik Revolution or the Russian Revolution is the name for the pair of revolutions that took place in Russia during 1917, in which took down the Tsarist totalitarianism and prompted the destined rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire had fallen with the surrender of Emperor Nicholas II, and the old administration was replaced by a new short term government during the first revolution of February 1917. In the second one that happened in October, the Provisional Government was taken…

If one were to have asked a Russian peasant what revolution means to them, they might answer samovol’shchina, or, translated “doing what you want.” In Sheila Fitzpatrick’s book The Russian Revolution she traces three broad themes through the course of the revolution that existed before 1917 and would continue until about the time of 1934. She examines the class struggle that was an important part of the revolution as well as the leadership that lead the Russian citizens through these tumuloous…