Marxism

America is and still the number one richest and powerful country on earth beside China.China is the world 's second-largest country in terms of his economy and his population. Nowadays chinese influences are everywhere.Can China rise peaceful?Can America maintain it number one position in the future? what will be the relationship between America and China?If China become number one will most of the world be communist countries like China or will they still be democratic countries? Can one day…

social and economic relationships and how it contributed to production. It was Marx’s belief that the ideal achievement of socialism led to equality and liberation. Weber contrasts to Marx by concentrating on status and rationalisation, believing that Marxism meant that the state had too much control and it potentially could lead to loss of freedoms for the individual. Rationalisation (or motivation capitalism) was a means to increase profit which Weber linked back to the development of a…

The theory of alienation is ‘the intellectual construct in which Marx displays the devastating effect of capitalist production on human beings, on their physical and mental states and on the social processes of which they are a part’ (Ollman, 1996). Marx’s theory is based on the observation that within the capitalist mode of production, workers invariably lose determination of their lives by being deprived of the right to regard themselves as the director of their actions. Alienation refers to…

Marx believed that there were three phases to achieve a communist Utopia. First the current government must be overthrown. Second, the new regime must take over all facets of private life and that of the countries citizens. Finally the Utopia would be achieved once every citizen was on a level playing field with each other. The third part of the equation has yet to be achieved by any communist regime. Marx also created the ten tenants of communism that were necessary in order for a…

Introduction The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels is the formal document that attempts to comprehensively consolidate the aims and ambitions of Communism and explain the underlying theory that drives it. It argues that all historical developments have class struggle as a driving force. Class struggle has been defined as the exploitation of one class by another. The process of “March of history” is introduced which focuses on the growing incompatibilities between class…

Mao Zedong had trouble gaining power and rising through the ranks of the Communist Party in the early nineteen thirties. With Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist army closing in on the Communist forces, the Chinese Communist Party was in need of a new leader. The Long March was the event that made Mao Zedong the clear leader of the Chinese Communist Party and later the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong, or Tse-tung, was born in a small, isolated village in Hunan Province on December 26th,…

are learnt through socialisation. Socialisation is talking to other people. There are two types; primary socialisation which occurs in the family and is the first form of socialisation encountered, and secondary socialisation which progresses beyond the family in various social settings such as nursery, school, and work. Therefore, norms (how people are expected to behave) are created. People are expected to have the right values and beliefs. Values are things that we believe to be important.…

Liberalism is together with realism and Marxism was one of the three core theories that dominated IR throughout 20th centuries or at least up to 1990s. Liberalism had however a very bumpy entrance into the field. As we’ve seen in the previous lecture, the first debate between realist on the one hand and liberals on the other are basically blablabla liberalism for the former idealism, starting out to studying the world, how we would like it to be rather than how it really was like, etc. And the…

stimulus is typically the opposition to the conventional political, and hence legal, status quo. Though, this revitalisation has proven itself a double-edged sword. Much as the academic community remains resolute in its assertion of the relevance of Marxism and its indispensable critique of the political and legal system, the wider population has often mistaken populist ideologues for genuine anti-establishment dissidents. This is the imposition of a false consciousness propagated by capitalist…

WE LIVE WITH TENSIONS OF CONSTRAINING STRUCTURES AND CREATIVE MEANINGS. SOCIOLOGY SEES THIS TENSION EVERYWHERE. Explain the theory of class and class struggle through Marx's interpretation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The question of class and class struggle is central to the study of sociology. Whether it is at an individual level or at society level, it has always been a main social issue around the world. In attempts to…