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    Karl Marx View On Money

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    the day before. Where can the line be drawn where a person just has too much? Greed can only cause more greed, in that case wouldn 't providing help for the common good help achieve this fair and equal civilization? This is the misinterpretation of Marx’s writings to the communist societies like the Soviet, China, North Korea. People inherently need a sense of leadership so they allow the government to have total control of production. There is this belief that people cannot maintain safety and…

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    Since the earliest writings on political thought, political society’s effects on an individual 's life has been discussed. Political theorists differ in their ideas of individuals positions in society; theorist Hobbes believes that the rights of individuals are subservient to the rights of a monarch, as a opposed to the more democratic writings of Locke which focus on individual rights. Regardless, the idea of why societies have been formed has been discussed frequently. In later writings, a new…

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    When we look back at individuals that are commonly known to have shaped the course of history, we often think of grand names of political leaders and conquerors such as Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, etc. It is easy to map out the differences they have made in the world because they are usually physical, actually altered geographical borders. However, we often fail to acknowledge the effect that lesser known names have had on the history of mankind, through ideas and…

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    Stalin changed the USSR from a revolutionary system of ideas into a conservative and authoritarian theory of state, preaching obedience and discipline as well as great respect for the Russian past. He sought to promote good relations with capitalist countries. The USSR under Stalin industrialized and urbanized rapidly. This goes against all that Marx…

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    Through the controlled personalities, celebrities’ profit off of market deals and product placements popularized because of their fame. The initial idea is to get the consumer to conform to the idea of who and how a person should be. In Marxist theory, these popular figures would be classified as the bourgeoisie and the consumers from society would be classified as proletariats. At the dawn of…

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    Human Nature and Determinism: What is the Provenance? As human intellect and history have progressed, many differing speculations of human nature and what determines it have been formulated. These types of philosophies took root as early as we can trace, with historical figures such as the Ancient Greeks forming their own deliberations concerning human nature and its motives or lack thereof. There are many conjectures on this subject, but prominent forms of determinism are historical…

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    Introduction Max Weber, born on April 21, 1864, was a German social scientist and the founder of modern sociological thought. Having a father who was an active lawyer in political life influenced him to attend Heidelberg University and to major in law, history, economics, as well as philosophy. After later continuing his studies at the Universities of Berlin and Göttingen, he managed to pass his bar examination in 1866 and he decided to practice law for a short period of time. In 1889, he…

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    Global Warming Is Wrong

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    According to Elijah Pryor in an article he wrote in the London Progressive Journal titled Climate Change and Marxism “Marx’s materialist concept of alienation can be related to that of the decline of empathy for the environment by society due to capitalism’s search for profit”(5). With the rise of industrial revolution it can explain how pollution started increasing tremendously. Globalization…

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    float in the conventional stream of social science. Burawoy was by no means a conventional social scientist, but the lack of subjectivity did constitute a significant lacuna for him. In a review of Labor and Monopoly Capital, he wrote: Labor-process theory suffered from an objectivist bias. . . . As many studies demonstrated, labor control was not only about constraint but also about eliciting consent to managerial goals. The workplace becomes an arena of struggle for shaping subjectivities—it…

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    Bertolt Brecht Influence

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    As one of the most influential figures in theatre, Bertolt Brecht has stamped his legacy in the world theatre. His search for anew kind of theatre made his theatre a modern avant-garde whichhas left its traces in postmodern theatres. This paper tries toinvestigate Brecht’s epic theatre as a modern avant-garde and itsinfluence in postmodern theatre. His epic theatre was in fact a revoltagainst the main stream modern theatre in which Brecht openlydeclares that theatre should be ‘political.’…

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