Socialism

Throughout history, the interaction between revolution and power has been conceptualized in many ways. These theories help explain why individuals will go to such extremes to change who controls the power. But, amongst these theories, there is the resonating question of whether or not revolutions are useful. This paper will explain Michel Foucault 's theory, which shifts sovereign power to the concept of disciplinary power. Through these disciplinary constructs, power becomes the production of…

In the essay “The Noble Feat of Nike” by Johan Norberg speaks about how the shoe company “Nike” effected Vietnam. It describes how the Nike factories use poor countries like Vietnam to gain maximum profit by paying poor wage to workers in return. In addition, they provided workers air conditioned buildings, meal plan opportunities, and insurance in case of any health problems. Norberg argues about how the company Nike isn’t exploiting the worker in Vietnam. In fact, he interviewed workers in the…

Capitalism in our country has grown and expanded to such an extent that it has reached a point of invincibility almost. Capitalism has throughout the years created groups or even categories of social economic class within the population, which has dramatically changed the way we all view each other. Along with inequality, it has created a difficult structure for the people of lower classes to be able to climb up into a higher class to be able succeed in life, which many times fails because they…

A working-class identity meant a very different thing to the elite then it did to the laborers of the working class. Class divisions between the working and the elite classes became increasingly obvious. “The laborer at wages has all the disadvantages of freedom and none of its blessings” (Brownsen 7). The elite class saw the working class as what James Henry Hammond coined as “mudsills”. The working class at this point in history began to recognize their mistreatment by the non-working class.…

Many men took stride to perceive the social change happening in society. Three men had earned the title of being the Fathers of Sociology. Durkheim, Marx, and Weber both used Sociology as a tool to help explain the idea of modern developments. Durkheim and Marx are the two founders that had vesting variations of how they respectively explained the idea of the modern development. Emile Durkheim believed in the idea of social cohesion to help develop while Karl Marx believed in capitalism and…

In the writing of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, a corrupt society that is based off of greed and self-centeredness is outlined. In this society, a class system that clearly affects how a community is governed is laid out. The political system is designed in a way that serves the leaders when it comes to industry and productivity. Marx goes in great depth, explaining the “exploitation of one part of society by the other” (16). The people of the society are simply means of production and hold no…

Everyone sees the world differently. With this, it means that every aspect of the social world will differ depending on the person. There are many ways to view the world. Some chose to see it in a positive light, while other believe perceive it in a negative manner. Sociologist like Durkheim, Weber, and Marx all viewed the social world in a different way. Durkheim believed that society functioned, while Marx views saw the opposite. Marx (1996) viewed the world as a history of class struggle (1),…

Alienation is defined as “the transformation of people’s own labor into a power which rules them as if by a kind of natural or supra-human law” ("Marxism & Alienation"). This idea was developed by Marx in his 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. He believes there are five dimensions and three sources of alienation which in commodities have powers to govern the activity of human beings. The first aspect of alienation is the product itself. This allows the capitalist to generate…

Karl Marx criticizes capitalism in a multitude of his essays, including the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. His critique of capitalism varies from the exploitation of workers to the instability of the capitalist system, but fundamentally his issue with capitalism is the dehumanization of laborers. Marx argues that under capitalism, laborers are dehumanized because they are alienated, or disconnected from fundamental human properties, in four aspects – products of labor, labor,…

Early modern writers as diverse as John Locke in his Two Treatises of Government and Karl Marx in Capital attribute inequality to the social dominance of one force such that it eclipses other forces’ abilities to function as they might otherwise; a ‘domination disrupts nature’ thesis. Both Locke and Marx identify money as one such dominating force. This dominance applies not only to money being the end of transaction, but also to the dominance of the means of transaction, with corresponding…