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    The formal principles “are understandable and understood. It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.” stated by Eva Hesse [11] Eccentric abstraction is under the major influences of post-minimalism and it is unconventional from traditional abstract art relating to its groundbreaking practice for the making of the art. Eccentric abstract works from the exhibition “Eccentric abstraction”

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    civilization. Marx attempted to place the means of production, including factories, into control of the people who operated the means of production(proletariat), and not just the owners of it (bourgeois). In Marx’s vision, society is driven not by spirituality, but by material objects. The proletariat and bourgeois may have ambivalent views on the division of wealth, but ultimately, the owners of the means of production make the decision. The

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    The Communist Manifesto had little influence when it was first published, in 1848. Marx and Engels start out the document with the phrase, “[a] specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism” (Marx and Engels, 14). Marx and Engels are referring to the fear of communism that was spreading in Europe. The fear towards communism, first surfaced by groups that were attempting to flaunt enormous power, saw the risk of their interests being affected; therefore, they promoted a generalized panic that

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    people will become lazy and stop working if private property is abolished (p.11). Marx and Engels’ response is that bourgeois society has already been lazy, as they claim, “for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work” (p.11). Similarly, in response to the criticism about the community of women, Marx and Engels states, “the bourgeois sees his wife as an instrument of production” (p.12). Since the bourgeoisie would like to use the instruments of production

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    establishing trades and relationships. The industry produces the products in accordance with supply and demand, and cities bring in an influx of people that dramatically increase the population. These things are attributed to the success of the bourgeois society that replaced the feudal one. In contrast to the bourgeoisie, the proletarian emerges.

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    Central Nervous System depressant most often abused with the intent of feeling uninhibited and euphoric. GHB, in the United States is prescribed as an experimental treatment for narcolepsy; in Europe GHB is used to treat alcoholism” (Richards & Bourgeois, 2014, p. 422). Alcohol Alcohol is classified as a depressant and is best understood as a drug that reduces a person’s ability to think rationally and distorts his or her judgment. “Moreover, it slows down vital functions which can result in: slurred

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    thing as an effective, peaceful revolution. The Communist Party will bring about the dictatorship of the proletariat since only the Communist Party understands its movement and scientific history. The proletariat must go on to destroy the notion of bourgeois, or private, property since it leads to individuals being selfish and creates tension among citizens. Since the proletariat is fed by the bourgeoisie, this will lead to the demise of society since

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    Opening famously with “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” is Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto. Published in 1848, the political pamphlet exercised the belief that communism would dispel capitalism and perpetual class struggles caused by the bourgeoisie, which had remained unchanged as modes of production evolved. Stemming from its origin “common,” communism proposes the idea of a post-capitalist, classless society where all property

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    the most important since they are the ones who made this system. Who are these people at the top of the pyramid? Well, they are the Burgeois family; the wealthiest, the most intelligent and the most powerful of all of us. Not everyone can become a Bourgeois, it’s literally a generation after generation of couple families passing on their wealth. They own and operate literally all the companies and the industries in the world. Their invention of Capitalism is the reason why people are able to make profits

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    without social classes.1 The first part of the Manifesto is entitled the Bourgeois And Proletarians.

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