Utopian socialism

Isn’t it funny how as the people who created money, our society is now ruled by it? Money drives people to do irrational things, sometimes even at the cost of others. Take the example of foreign workers. Times have moved on. Society has changed. Singapore has become a more developed country. Then why are foreign workers still being subjected to such horrible working conditions? They are not any less human than us. We have families. So do they. We have to pay for many things. So do they. We have…

Karl Marx’s economic thinking or analyses was focused on the factory system. In the first chapter, he began with a quotation from John Stuart Mill in his Principles of Political Economy: “It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being” (section 1). This quote by Marx’s point of view might imply that the use of machines can be reduce the basic value of the products. Capitalists only aim for interest rather than human rights and…

After the Bolsheviks overthrew the Romanoff dynasty in 1917, they instituted communism as the national ideology. Communism is a political theory that advances a classless society where, where property is owned by the government with each person being employed by and paid by the government according to their abilities and need, as deemed necessary by the government (Source). A heightened awareness and concern of communism began to evolve that was legitimate in theory but paranoid in practice.…

INTRODUCTION: Modern economics has overthrown the concepts of old medieval practices.In ancient days ‘work’ is considered as punishment whereas in 16th century as a means to glorify God. The period (1600-1850) can be viewed as a class struggle between landlords and new bourgeois for control of state. Classical economics was one of the elements in this battle. Classical economics refer to a period stretching from introduction of Adam smith’s book ‘The wealth of Nations’ to introduction of Stuart…

A world where everyone receives equality: whether you are black or white, whether you are male or female, whether you are the CEO of a company or a part- time worker in KFC, you all will be treated in the same manner. Would such a world not be the dream that everyone is achieving for? A man born into a wealthy family named Karl Marx specifically proposed the idea of communism, which exactly illustrates this concept of egalitarianism and common ownership of property. He soon became known as the…

Socl 3013: Sociology of Work Estranged Labour with in contemporary forms of work Karl Marx’s study of estranged labour plays a vital part in understanding today’s contemporary work place. The notion of estranged labour is the separation of labourers or workers from the products of their labor as well as the labor process, their fellow works and from their bodies and human potential. All taken away and alienated by the employers in an attempt to dominant the work force (Marx 1964:111). One of…

scientists and philosophers are convinced that the famous "Republic" of Plato and "Utopia" by Thomas More are the very first models of communist society. Communist ideology evolved from socialism and found its application with the coming to power of the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin. The goal of socialism, and consequently of communism, was the replacement of market relations and an economy based on private…

Selena Barreira Karl Marx Notes on: The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, and Capital Volume 1 Chapter 26: “The Secret of Primitive Accumulation” In chapter 26 of Marx’s Capital, he discusses a concept known as primitive accumulation and its role in political economy. He begins the chapter describing the process if how money is changed into capital, “how through capital surplus-value is made, and from surplus-value more capital” (461). But through this process there is a never-ending…

Everything you participate in has been given to you by society, including your anti-society music and clothing. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels offer an intensified look at how an individual’s consciousness is formed, through society. Life determining consciousness is a concept that Marx and Engels propose in The Communist Manifesto and The German Ideology. This concept is demonstrated within Lukacs’ work The Historical Novel. In relation to both works, this essay will focus on capitalist society…

Chattel slavery is the labor of people who were seen and treated as possessions. Chattel slaves were not paid and they made their owners wealthy with the labor they provided. They were seen as money making machines without the regard that they were human just like the people who owned them. The importance of the great slave plantations was that they were the reason the South had a lot of wealth since they took care of the crops that brought money to the South. The social, economic, political,…