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    economic reforms that were in the interest of the provided better business ventures. As a liberal society that advocated for individual rights and freedom, but is ideal was not shared by all. The bourgeois class was reluctant to share these prospects with the working class because deputies from the bourgeois mostly dominated the National assembly. Intern many of the policies and reform plans were catered more toward the economic interest of the popular class against the landowning nobility. The alliances

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    time period that Marx was writing his pamphlet from, the capitalist. In this time, the labors worked for the bourgeois to make a product that the bourgeois would benefit from the labor’s work. Marx saw this problem, and he address the problem head on. He addressed the problem so much that he was forced out of Paris. Marx continually called to attention the problems between the bourgeois, or the business owners how made all the money, and the proletarians, or the worker that work for the business

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    French Revolution. In the late 18th century, a weak king, political and social unrest, and rising taxes caused the middle class to revolt against the monarchy, overthrowing and reforming the old government, or ‘Ancien Regime.’ Championed by the bourgeois, the Revolution drew inspiration from the European movement of individualism and reason, also known as the Enlightenment. Although the Revolution succeeded in its goals, some historians believe that the French Revolution ultimately

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    For constancy is an essential constituent of all capacity to believe, and consequently of all religion. The eminent importance of faithfulness will stand out in a special way against the background of human relationships. (Here faithfulness is taken in its narrow sense, i.e. fidelity.) For what is love without fidelity? In the ultimate analysis, it is nothing but a lie. For the deepest meaning of every love, the inner "word" uttered in love, is the interior orientation toward and giving of oneself

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    Marxism Midterm Essay: State and Revolution Sarah Elberling University of Denver State and Revolution The early 20th century socialist revolutionary theorists Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxembourg and Leon Trotsky believed that the withering away of the state and the removal of the capitalist mode of production was a necessary outcome if the individual was to ever realize their true nature as being free, equal and self-determining. This, however, could only be achieved through

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    innocent people because it shows that he has freedom of choice and has authority and power in society. Alex’s interpretation of darkness and night is, “The night belonged to me and my droogs and all the rest of the nadsats (teenagers), and the starry bourgeois lurked indoors…” (Part 1, Chapter 4, Page 33). In contrast,

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    Once in complete control, it would abandon its dictatorship to form a higher state of democracy then had been seen before. He thought then that the classes which separated people would surely fall as the bourgeois withered away. He believed that people must liberate themselves. On the other hand, Eduard Bernstein’s revisionist socialism wanted the proletariat to rise to power through democratic office and reforms. He believed that the change should be more

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    of the governed. The revolutionaries were less interested in redressing socio-economic injustices. Were these revolutionaries interested in ending socio-economic miseries of the masses and class exploitation? That was not the primary goal of the bourgeois revolutionaries. The bourgeoisie themselves were property holders themselves and they were not into attacking what Jean -Jacques Rousseau identified as the origins of all human conflict, misery, and suffering which is private property. In order to

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    use of division of labor and with the birth of industrialization. Karl Marx describes this new system as, “modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and the employers of wage labor.”[iii] Marx believed that the development of bourgeois industries caused a proportional deterioration in the condition of the proletariat other known as the working class. The new economic powers of the bourgeoisie led to their political empowerment. While the bourgeoisie had originally served

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    for their alienation and having such a negative perception on life. Nietzsche states, “…that it should not be a desire to…become master, a thirst for enemies’ resistances and triumphs” (45). Marx states a direct contrast to this, “In place of old bourgeois society…we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the free development for all.” (491). In conclusion, the opinions of the authors and the idea of an uprising between the respective classes are directly contrasting.

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