Socialist Party of America

attracting more citizens to their country. For example, soon after the the event in Berlin, citizens in China wanted their government to have a democracy and human rights allowed to the people. The country was thrown into a “political crisis” and “the socialist movement world wide was at is lowest point,” stated Li Wie, the author of the article “The Fall of the Berlin Wall in the Eyes of China”. (Wie, The Fall of the Berlin Wall in the Eyes of China). The country of China was not impressed…

Margaret Sanger : Women against the Law During 1873 The Comstock act was in effect and its mindset was alike to the Victorian era. These ideals were based around the ideas that a woman should not be able to do anything vulgar or anything that would show a women being attracted to anything sexual and anything that would oppose to a woman conceiving a child. Margaret Sanger was one of the first women in American history to go against the past feminine ideals. Sanger’s main motivation to go…

To the elites of any society that has existed in history, the anger and ire of the masses has always been a terrifying concept to ponder. From the Helot class of Sparta, peasant revolts in China, labor unions in England, and slave revolts in America, it has always been the prerogative for those in power to make sure any thoughts of challenge to the status quo was quickly put to rest. This view of those in power has remained unchanged, but the mechanisms used to achieve control and stability have…

European Study Guide Adam Smith: Economist and philosopher who wrote : "bible of capitalism," The Wealth of Nations, in which he details the first system of political economy (concepts of division of labor and economic wealth). This was his first work dedicated to the study of political economy Economics of the time were dominated by the idea that a country’s wealth was best measured by its store of gold and silver. Smith proposed that a nation’s wealth should be judged not by this metric…

who gives information with the purpose of interfering with the U.S. soldiers execution of the war effort. Therefore,was an offense to make the soldiers act unfairly, rise up, or disobey on their duty. Charles T. Schenk , secretary of the Socialist Party of America in Philadelphia during the First World War opposed the war, and was arrested and charged with conspiring to violate the law by sending leaflets to men who had been recruited into the armed forces; saying that the Government had no…

Mussolini came to political power in 1922 following an era of social and civil unrest. The Italian Socialist Party was making important electoral gains as working class activism prospered and militant trade unions were making strides to fight for worker’s rights. Mussolini never had an interest in economics and how it operated. Instead, Mussolini chose to focus on aesthetics and how Italy appeared to an international audience. However, he was very much aware of the importance of a strong economy…

pill form of birth control for women, something that would one day become one of the most popular forms of birth control for women (America, 2016). Planned Parenthood clinics received a grant in order to undertake the development of this pill. The first trials resulted in side effects much worse than anything seen today as the hormone levels were much too high (America, 2016). By 1972, birth control was finally legal for everyone in the United States and the pill had been refined to a lower…

created and put into the world. Throughout this class we have learned many media theories that have greatly affected the society we live in whether it be direct or indirect. Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and a socialist who developed the Marxist Theory. The Marxist Theory states that the dominant structuring agent in a society should be the well being of it’s members. In other words, Marx thinks that all of written human history has been divided by…

inheriting wealth must be done away with, that a heavy progressive income tax must exist, that society has to be more equal in the sense that more people on an individual level have power, and when put together, should formulate plans that express a socialist democracy without a capitalist system existing. Finally equality and fairness is put forth above all…

As the United States dives head first into the presidential primaries, social issues influence voters decisions and hold a significant weight over the future of many Americans, youths in particular. The debate over free community college education has been one dissected by politicians, educators, and concerned citizens to weigh out the benefits and challenges that reshaping an entire educational system entails. The process of transitioning our community colleges into offering free post-secondary…