Serfdom

“I am done with the monster of “We,” the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood, and shame.” (Rand, 97) The story of Anthem takes place in an unspecified future time and place where freedom and individual rights have been eliminated. Collectivism, the political philosophy stating that an individual exists only to serve the state, has taken over the society which has brought many rules and controls along with it. The only concept that people know is “We” and not “I.” Equality 7-2521, a…

of China’s rural-urban divide. It is apparent that the reformation led by Mao Zedong, a son of the soil, which has regularly been seen as devoted to believing in a more egalitarian social form, in concrete practice produced something alike to serfdom. In spite of some debilitating of the discrimination and bondage encountered by rural…

always prepared for war, and prided themselves on being the best warriors in the world. This was necessary because Sparta was supported by surrounding villages that had been conquered. These people were known as helots and they existed as a type of serfdom to feed the free city of Sparta. While Athens found riches and resources through expansion across the Mediterranean, Sparta created it by conquering nearby villages. Despite the Athenians naval prowess, they were no match for Sparta when…

sympathize with Gandhi 's point of view. "It has impoverished the dumb millions by system of progressive exploitation and by a ruinously expensive military and civil administration which the country can never afford. It is reduced us politically to serfdom. It has set the foundations of our culture, and, by the policy of disarmament, it has degraded a spiritually. Lacking inward strength, we have been reduced by all the universal disarmament to a state bordering on cowardly helplessness.” (Lines…

individuals from obtaining monetary success. During the emergence of neoliberalism, influential liberals such as Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises took the ideas of classical liberalism as a way to further express neoliberalism. In Hayek's Road to Serfdom, he proclaimed that centralized planning, also referred to as government intervention, is coercive power that limited the individual of obtaining economic prosperity (42). Furthermore, he noted that a planned government would never produce…

The Habsburg Family Andrew Overton The Hapsburg Family was one of the most powerful families in the world, who dominated the political landscape across Europe for much of the Medieval ages and throughout the Renaissance. The Hapsburg family ruled a large variety of different nations throughout its reign, including the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, Hungary-Croatia, colonial possessions in the New World, and other nations. The Hapsburgs were an incredibly powerful royal house…

He is a prisoner of “we.” The society he lives in has brainwashed everyone into thinking that everyone must act as a whole, but eventually Prometheus escapes this jail and learns about the word “I.” “I am done with the monster of “We,” the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame” (Rand 97). Prometheus would be considered an egoist, but he was a good egoist. He thought for himself and about himself. He thought about what would be best for him, but in an unselfish way. He…

forced those they conquered to use a trading system unfamiliar to most, which created confusion but ultimately progressed society. The Mongols also forced people to pay tribute, especially in Russia (Document 5). This vastly changed the system of serfdom previously which previously dominated Russia. The Mongols, or Golden Horde, made the Russians pay tribute to the prince, upsetting Russians. Al-Atir also documented that the Mongols conquered almost all of Eurasia, including the most populated…

Europeans originally enslaved Slavic-speaking people from the Black Sea to work on Mediterranean sugar plantations, but when the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople, the supply of Slavic slaves were completely cut off. In the mid-fifteenth century Portuguese mariners sailed down the West African coast in an effort to bypass the North African Muslims (who by now had a monopoly on the trade of sub-Saharan gold, spices, and other goods) and seek their own riches in gold. While there Portuguese…

Nationalism and Imperialism became very important and impacting concepts in the nineteenth century. Not only was Nationalism and Imperialism existent in the nineteenth century, but these two concepts and ideas existed before the nineteenth century and started to rise and increase in impact in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. By definition, Nationalism was the concept or idea that a country was better than all the others, which contributed to governments distinguishing themselves…