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    Engels was having similar thoughts and they decided to pair up to analyze capitalism versus socialism (Hammon). Together, they took a trip to Paris which, according to Marx’s biographer, Francis Wheen, was “absolutely swarming with utopian communists, anarchists, Christian socialists, poets, philosophers; it was a hotbed of new thinking” (Wheen). On this trip, Engels and Marx thoroughly studied socialism in France, as well as the mindset of the French people. They both found the country to be…

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    In the 19th century Karl Marx, a university educated philosopher, started a job as a journalist. He was forced into writing about economics and popularized the term capitalism, which in his point of view was very negative. When he began to collaborate with Friedrich Engels, a German radical, his theoretical ideas of capitalism really started to take shape. Engels had observed and studied some of the factories that his father owned in England and was horrified by the working conditions of the…

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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein parallels the historical era of the bourgeois and proletariat as the actions in that time influence Shelley’s characters actions. Revolutionary German economist, Karl Marx, wrote heavily on the issue of communism and the issue between social classes similarly to the roles played by the protagonist and the antagonist in the novel. Despite the irony of the characters overcoming their social standards, Marx 's’ influences did not fail to be recognized. The harshness of…

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    credited as being one of the founders of Critical Theory. In his essay Marcuse use critical theory to critique the capitalistic society in America and global dominion. The essay is portioned into four main areas which are A Biological Foundation for Socialism, The New Sensibility, Subverting Forces-in Transition, and Solidarity. The single thread that is woven throughout the essay is individual liberation. Marcuse holds that the individual must be liberated for society as a whole…

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    Owen came to the United States in November of 1824, after visits with the Shakers and with a community of Rappites (another utopian group) he purchased the town of New Harmony, Indiana for $135,000. “Owen believed that the community would serve as the model for the "New Moral World" communities that would follow New Harmony and eventually transform world society according to enlightenment…

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    E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848, New York: Mentor, 1962. E.J. Hobsbawm argues that the French Revolution and the British Industrial Revolution transformed the world in unprecedented ways. This “Dual Revolution,” argues Hobsbawm, established the parameters for European capitalist hegemony. The socio-economic structure of Europe in 1848 looked completely different from that of 1789. Although they followed different trajectories, bourgeois liberalism lay at the heart of both. To…

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    Manifesto, which called for a classless, stateless society, governed by utopian principles. The type of ideology Marx and Engels were describing was communism. The Communist Manifesto emphasized the importance of class struggle in every historical society, and the dangerous instability capitalism created. Engels and Marx believed that the nation had to go through a series of revolutions in order to reach communism, socialism being one of these stages. In a communistic government, the…

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    ‘All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects” (Huxley 54). Imagine a world free of famine, war, and a sense of identity all thanks to a controlling government. In “Brave New World” the man made and enforced caste system parallels and juxtaposes societal struggles of communism, through themes of suppression and control, as a means to expose the injustices in a suppressed society. As Deevy beautifully put the Marxist struggle is,”The age old cry of envy swelling from…

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    India’s ideal (regarding socialism) is that most, or all, of the major industries are owned and operated by the government, rather than the individual. India has excessive government control and ownership within the country, which is doing the country more harm than good (as we will see later on). Government-controlled businesses accounted for around 43% of India’s capital stock, and the productivity of these entities was substantially less than that of the private ones. This low productivity in…

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    socio-economic control, is for a unified nationalist body that can effectively spread homogenous culture abroad. These movements call for a “nationalization an socialization of the masses …a clearly visible comprehensive alternative to the international socialism of the Marxists…” . While Marxist ideologies can spread between common people through promises of economic equality and stability, fascists rely on nationalist “us versus them” mentalities, in addition to inherently corporatist…

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