Marxism

Between 1954 and 1975, the United States interfered with Russia’s spread of Communism in Vietnam. The book, The Ugly American, became a synonym with everything wrong with American foreign policy by telling the story of two very different American Ambassadors’ interactions with people in Southeast Asia and their styles of handling particular episodes. While Ambassador Louis Sears is unfocused, easily manipulated, and oblivious, his successor, Ambassador Gilbert MacWhite, is determined, a…

Poulantaz and Miliband additionally have a disagreement concerning ideology and the state, Poulatzas sees the state as having a gigantic part to play as far as shaping working class hegemony. Poulatzas originates from the Althusserian school of Marxism while Miliband was a piece of the New Left. The Althusserian School rejects the analysis of society that begins with the strengths of generation as it sees this as "economism" as it considers production to be a technical process rather than a…

Gender Women tend to have a longer life expectancy than men. However, some women experience high mortality rates. An example of this includes: Black African women who are asylum seekers are estimated to have a mortality rate which is 7 times higher compared to the mortality rate for White women-especially due to problems in accessing maternal healthcare. The poorer outcomes for men based on their life expectancy are getting worse by socio-economic situations. A woman who is from a professional…

The Great Gatsby is entirely built on class stratification and the idea of the American Dream, which causes people to act selfishly and behave a certain way, especially when it comes to those the individual loves. The book is set in the 1920s, a time period where people were able to become wealthy very quickly. This, however, caused many disputes between people of old money and those of new. Old money was inherited and usually passed on from one generation to the next, which is why they remained…

GLOBAL JAYA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL English Language & Literature HL Extended Essay How Does George Orwell Use Symbolism To Show Us His Ideas On Authoritarianism in his novel “Animal Farm”? Lucas Gramm Candidate Number: 002189-0025 Word Count: 3454 An essay exploring Orwell’s use of Symbolism throughout his novel “Animal Farm” in order to illustrate his views on authoritarian regimes parallel to what had happened throughout the Russian Revolution. Introduction:…

The readings by Catharine McKinnon “Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State” and Sheila Jeffreys’’ The Industrial Vagina’’ address the topics of Feminism and Marxism. Marxism, feminism, and heterosexuality are theories of power because they generate inequality. Marxism deprives one the ability to work and feminism deprives one from their sexuality and all its entitlements. As a result,these terms delineate both accounts against the conception of lack of power. Furthermore, such deprivation is…

to manipulate the rest of the farm. Orwell is not a Marxist because he shows inequality, while also showing abuse of power with his lead characters. The seventh commandment is that all animals are equal but throughout the book Orwell shows anti-Marxism when he writes about inequality with some animals who are better, at a higher lever and more privileged than other animals. Orwell reinforces inequality when the pigs are higher than the rest of the animals and have the rules…

How do you escape a racial stereotype? Soto has Mexican heritage and has lived in the U.S. as a legal immigrant as a factory worker. In the poem “Mexicans Begin Jogging”, The author shows Marxism through Soto’s stereotype as an illegal immigrant just because he is Hispanic and works in a factory. Soto is stuck in between two worlds and doesn’t know how to deal with his problems, so is forced to be stuck in this predicament where he is a Mexican at heart, but has an American culture. Soto…

Oppressive Marxism is a political and economic theories that separate someone from their group or class. The short story “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, shows a great example of Oppressive Marxism. Miss Emily is oppressed after the incident of her rich father's death. Her father never wanted Miss Emily to have a husband so when he passed away, she found a man she was drawn to. His murder, being the result of her being drawn to him. When the story kicks off, it starts off as being in…

On a fine sunny weekend day, sitting comfortably in a coffee shop and observing the employees were executing their activities autonomically , a barista making his coffee for the customers, a cashier swiftly working on the till, a manager ensuring the satisfaction of their customers. I overheard a conversation where two gentlemen where in a discussion over labor practices in Canada. Exemplifying the barista serving the drinks. The barista stood there for hours with a smile and accepting all…