Democratic Socialism: The End Of Today's Class

     I think that this is a very good hypothesis put in front of us by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. They do a superb job of explaining the problem with the existing government. They also give a vehicle for change in the next chapter. So its seems that I should be ready for a communist revolution. The problem with this is that it is just a good hypothesis. As with all hypothesis’s they must be tested and the communist hypothesis has failed most of its tests. I must hand it to Mr. Marx, since I was born and raised in a very anti-communist country and after reading two chapters in his book I was almost ready to join him. He is a

Some argue that Capitalism is beneficial for everyone but that’s not true at all. There is this article called Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal With Income Inequality by PETER GEORGESCU from the new york times.

Class, the system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status. An economical structure where individuals are grouped in lower, middle and upper class. A social structure powered by gender roles, defining masculinity, manliness and femininity. Are we truly living the American Dream? Throughout this essay we will discuss the condition of the working class, women’s right to vote, taking a look at the rise of the Progressive Era and how it changed relationships between big businesses, government, and the working class.

In saying "People in difficulties, need a hand up rather than a hand out" Tony Blair portrayed the position of the third wave socialists on the welfare state, which is built upon the principle of "No rights without responsibilities".

Socialism in America is considered by many to be a ‘dirty’ word, and has been labeled as such since the Socialist Party of America entered a period of decline following 1912. Prior to this, 361 social councilmen, aldermen and mayors, were elected in the United States (History). However, socialism in America is making a comeback in the 2016 presidential election, as Senator Bernie Sanders (I) of Vermont seeks to run as a self-pronounced ‘democratic socialist’ in an attempt to become the first doc socialist president in the history of the nation. However, many believe his views to be too strong, and think of Bernie as unelectable. This belief however, is false, given a substantial uprising occurring currently with young people on social media,

The logistical system through which all goods and services are distributed and carried out is of concern to everyone within it. In the United States, through our esteemed representative democracy, we stifle this concern by giving the citizen a choice between two right-wing, capitalist parties. As a nation our propaganda attacks one-party states, but is this only to accentuate the difference between us and them? Is it truly better to be given the choice between two parties over just one to a citizen whose policies do not fall anywhere between, or is it an example of a failure of our education system to curtail the free thought of an individual to the extent where their political ideals cannot be labeled as “liberal” or “conservative?” Socialism

Capitalism is a necessary step for communism to take place. Having the means of overproduction sets up the perfect conditions for communism to take place on paper. Over production drives terrible working conditions and forces people to band together to improve those conditions. Without this important step of production communism is doomed to fail. When needs are not met, any system will fail. Russia tried communism without first developing the means of production so inevitably it failed due to the government’s inability to provide for their people. When communism is in place, the people are completely dependent on the government for everything. The government oversees allocating people, resources, and production which proved too great of a

I’m sure you all are familiar with the concept of communism, and perhaps how it is the staple of Russia and the society that was the Soviet Union (which failed). However, the Communist Manifesto was composed by two German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in London in the year of 1848. It essentially says that our lives should be governed by us, and that all property shall be publicly owned. All citizens of the nation must work and are paid according to their abilities and needs. It sounds enticing, sounds like it’ll work. That was the basis of their philosophy. But, a society in which there is an absolute power, in this case the working class, is the fault. It simply won’t work. It breeds absolute corruption. We’ve all probably heard that

Any system of oppression that affects more than a handful of individuals can be rather trivially projected onto the class-based oppression put forth by Marxist theory by simply mapping the oppressor onto the bourgeoisie and the oppressed onto the proletariat with only a few caveats. This fact raises an important question of whether we can take a Marxist approach to getting rid of said system of oppression, namely by implementing a socialist system or whatever its analogue may be in this case. While such an approach seems to work and to mitigate some of the immediate grievances of the oppressed class, it is not a comprehensive solution and adaptions to the specific kind of oppression are necessary. For example, in the case of women, gender-specific societal expectations have to go away among other things and in the case of colonialism, the colonized territory has to obtain its independence and attain a level of economic

The fifth chapter is called The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists. In this chapter, the most important concept is what Mill thought. Mill wrote a book called Principles of Political Economy. This book, talks about rent and wages and prices and taxes and the paths of Smith, Malthus and Ricardo. Mill said in his book that the economic law was about production and not distribution. Mill states that the laws have nothing to do with distribution, for example, when a product is produced, the economic laws said how should the production work but never stated what should be done afterwards. Mill says that once something is produced, people can do whatever they like with it. However, society can take the product from the person. The distribution of the products depend on laws and the customs of society and cannot be avoided. Societies tax and that money is distributed to the government of a country or it can be used in another way because there is no proper distribution. Mill said that because of this there was no correct distribution.

Socialism is a political ideology that aims to provide equality between all citizens. According to Understanding the Political World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science, James N. Danziger (2015) defined socialism as, “One of the major Western political ideologies, in which the most important goal is to provide a high quality, relatively equal standard of living for all” (p. 468). The goal of this ideology is to find the balance between government involvement and private ownership.

After the destruction of the American society, we must rebuild our government, taking extreme caution not to make the same mistakes as past societies. For the new government, our best choices are capitalism and communism. In theory, capitalism gives the opportunity to work hard in order to succeed, while communism makes everyone equal and therefore happy. However, both of these government systems have many flaws in practice. We all grew up in a mostly capitalist society that contained small elements of socialism, a government that focuses on giving everyone equal opportunities to succeed in life, but to a lesser extent of communism. However, socialism often morphs into communism in theory, and we will not include it as a starting government

In truth I do not think that the communism as described by Marx is possible. In theory Communism is an astounding socioeconomic plan, with fairness for all people but I don’t believe that human nature would allow it. I say human nature because in my opinion, there will always be people who want more, even if they have everything they already need. Personally, I like to buy and have new things; I’m a slave to capitalism so to speak. However, I am modest, and don’t care much about having a huge amount of wealth, other people in society most definitely do. I think that because the fat cats of society who will always want more for their own personal wealth, communism would never work

Socialism      Socialism is a type of economic system, a political movement, and a social theory. Socialism is based on the idea that governments should own and control a nation's resources rather than individuals.      Socialism was first used to describe opposition to the free enterprise and market economies. The Industrial Revolution was the cause of many social problems. Long work hours, low pay, and poor working conditions caused Americans to first consider socialism.

Rather than eradicate capitalism, socialism exists within it. Moreover, democratic socialism is characterised through the balance and compromise between free market capitalism and the Governmental state (Bernstein 1993: 142, Heywood 2012:128, Anderson 1985: 10). Marx considered socialism as a class movement, which is what subsequently played out in the political realm, once universal suffrage had been achieved. For previously powerless people it was the only peaceful way to be heard: “Electoral politics constitutes the mechanism through which anyone can as a citizen express claims to goods and services.” (Przeworski 1985:11).