Interplay between Hegelian Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism G.W.F. Hegel proposed that “dialectic” concerned itself with the process which went into knowing the “whole” of anything. Hegel equated “whole” with “totality”. According to him, only the whole is true. The whole is composed of moments that are partial wholes. The relationship that existed between these partial wholes is of prime importance. The whole contains within itself all the moments that it has overcome. Basically,…
Starting with production, companies only need to produce what will be bought. With the “need” being the “cause” and the “effect” being “production,” we will look at the basic economics seen in a capitalist system. Since we gain our knowledge of cause and effect form experience, having a governmental system in place that allows for…
Majoring in film production will allow me to learn everything there is to know about the different positions and aspects of a film production. In my experience, most film production majors dream of becoming the next big director or cinematographer. For me, my dream career is to become a production designer and maybe even a producer along the line. What I love most about production design, is that you help bring the story to life. It is not just actors standing around reciting lines from a…
According to the capitalist, human beings are in essence gluttonous, self-interested beings who can only be forced to act with the assurance of financial gain. This understanding has it that free market capitalism is a natural side effect of this avarice, this social-Darwinist hunger for supremacy and materialism, and that any system that disregards this imperative “human nature” is censured to proletariat misery. When we remove the capitalist industrialist lenses, Marx says that we can examine…
would eventually collapses and revolution would ensue. From this ‘revolution’, Socialism should prosper, where we are in an egalitarian communist society where human need would be motivation for production, not money, and the very nature of ‘class’ will be eliminated. The state would own the means of production, and would equally distribute resources to all persons. Ralf Dahrendorf’s “Class and class conflict in Industrial Society” (1959) comments on Marx’s writings and worked to develop Marx’s…
English teacher, and Clara Marie Allen, an art teacher, went to work at Consolidation on the swing shift on a B-12 production line. On their summer vacation, Bowman and Allen learned not only the idea of true physical labor by how much effort was put into every individual Liberator, but they also witnessed a change in the way they, as women, were viewed by society. In working on the production line, the two teachers were able to see the demand for women involvement while gaining a sense of…
In the world of economics, the scenario is always given with the following words, “with all things being equal”. There is nothing equal about one man owning another man. It is a false connotation when it comes to labour power and how it was conceived. Those who loathed for power, craved it, and aspired to beat everyone else with the same goal became extremely rich. Those who only wanted to get by, with food in their stomachs and a roof over their heads became poorer. The fine line between the…
Significant changes have occurred in the means of production since the time Marx wrote about class and capitalism. A subset of these changes involves the development of the sharing economy, a group of apps and websites which serve as a platform for individuals to contract services directly from one another. This may seem like either an emerging sphere of communist exchange within the capitalist economy, with individuals providing goods to one another without the mediation of the extractive…
The Industrial Revolution had many effects on society economically and socially from 1750 to 1900. Economically, people could become skilled workers, technological innovations increased efficiency of trade and communication, and production shifted to factories; Socially, new class divisions formed, new living standards were made, and new forms of education were promoted The economic effects of the Industrial Revolution were tremendous. Many people worked in factories instead of farms at this…
rest of society. Karl Marx understood that production is not an individual effort, but a collective one. The division of labor was divided into…