Marxism

This excerpt from Marx and Engels’ Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts centres around the concept of the inherent estrangement between the producer and the product. This dichotomy of opposites is frequently reinforced in the text, through the idea of what the two parts of society, (in simple terms, the rich and the poor), receive in reward for the work of the worker. The language of “wonderful” and “privation,” “palaces” and “hovels”, “beauty” and “deformity,” makes clear, through the use of…

All governments are created to maintain a certain degree of order. Some governments allow each citizen an equal opportunity to participate in political outcomes. Other governments restrict the ability of citizens to have any influence over their nation’s rule. Both cases fall within the scale of government types: from oppressive regimes to anarchist factions. Although these types can differ dramatically, the same goal of all governments remains alike. That goal is to provide direction and…

Weber is one of the three Fathers of Sociology and studied in detail the sociology of religion, politics and government. He looked at the social behaviour in terms of tradition. Meaning that he believed people act accordingly to those who lived before them. The way in which people lived was down to what was acceptable within in society in which they learnt from older people. This is not really the case in today’s modern world as people in society now love to rebel. Weber believed that before in…

himself from being overthrown and criticized. His resort to terror as a mechanism to keep people on his side validates a need to be superior, and a creation of classes throughout Russia with the extremely high being untouchable. This strive is against Marxism because rather than a leader uplifting the workers to become conscious, he represses workers and allows for the stratification of classes. Similarly, glorification through the forced work of artist and writers, Stalin created a false…

According to Dante Aligheri’s Inferno a person must do something good in life to go to heaven in death. Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, or as he is most often known as, Leon Trotsky deserves to go to one of the levels of hell. And based upon Aligheri’s criteria Trotsky belongs in circle nine, the bottom level of hell where traitors go and where Satan resides despite his divorce from Aleksandra Sokolovskaya for his lover Natalia Ivanova Sedova which would place him in circle two, the circle for the…

This historical analysis will define the influence of the French mandate in the development of socialism in Syria through European education and development of the League of Nationalist Action (LNA) and the Ba’ath Party in the nationalist movements of the 1930s and 1940s. The rise of socialism in Syria was primarily organized by young men that sought a modern nationalist platform through the LNA in the 1930s. The fervent nationalism against the French mandate provided a conceptualization of…

Part II: Nihilism and its Relation to War, Modernism, Religion, Socialism, Marxism and Communism War and Nihilism While war can be profitable to those in power as a way of strengthening their power and auhority, but its outcomes is nothing but misery and poverty for the people. The loss of lands, the establishment of new territories, displacement, depopulation, separation of the family members, death and devastation, the destruction of economic and social structures of the country, famine,…

to toy with value and the feudalistic system in the beginning of the play and how that is dangerous to everyone around him and eventually himself. William Shakespeare wants the reader to recognize that in economic situations where capitalism and Marxism are present, that power can undermine itself and that the play is rather a discussion of society’s relationship with poverty from the time when Shakespeare was writing. King Lear and Cordelia have been taken prisoner by Edmund and together they…

Marx’s Alienation The social theory that is drawn from the article “Making Ends Meet on Low Wages” is Marx’s social theory of alienation. The article examines the financial peaks different size families must reach in order to meet the standard of living and explains the LIS (Living Income Standard), a development by the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center that estimates the financial peaks families need to reach to afford basic needs. The overall perspective one may conclude, if thinking about…

Saint Joan of the Stockyards, play by Bertolt Brecht attempts to represent drama of life with regard to financial issues of 1930’s. He makes an attempt to dramatize the complex economic situations with the help of his study of Marxism and capitalism. This play portrays the depths of suffering which has a moving effect on audience. In Saint Joan of the Stockyards everything eventually comes down to the question of meeting ends and means. It also portrays the socio-economic difference in classes…