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    Marxist socialism is nothing in common . " [ 6 ] He also believes that " egalitarianism in terms of needs and personal life is a reactionary petty-bourgeois fallacy , " to point out that Russia can achieve equality : " One, after the overthrow of the capitalists and deprivation all workers are equally exploited and get rid of liberation ; Second, the outcome of the whole

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    relations of production that is conducive to capitalistic ideals. This notion remains relevant and potent in today’s society. Remnants of patriarchal relations fundamentally enable the extent of class, exploitation, agency and power that drives this capitalist economy. While man-woman relations are conducive the process of capital accumulation, they are not mutually indispensible. That is, there is no infinite or explicit relationship between labour-wage gender inequality under capitalism. However, it

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    them. In some cultures your class could never be escaped in life, you had to wait for your next incarnation, while in other cultures the idea of wealth transcended a life and allowed for growth from one class to another. This is the reality of a capitalist society that was first discussed by Karl Marx in the 19th century. When Karl Marx first penned his shaping works on communism, he assumed that the relationship between workers and capital would always be opposing. While most rejected his overall

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    is an essence of our existence. In this case, Marx suggests that we, the workers, are a commodity (*a product for general sale in a market). Generally, people see a commodity as a man-made product for purchase. Marx argues against that by saying, “labour power… is a commodity, neither more or less than sugar”, because the workers sell their time/ effort to capitalists, for wages in return (Marx 204). To explain further, a commodity can be a form of reification (*regarding something immaterial, as

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    The most important part is that, the final outputs of production belonged to the producers, whether sell them or not was totally depended on them. But in Marx’s time, factory owners, which mean capitalists, paid money to workers in return of labor force to carry out productions. Let aside the boring rigid production actions, the products belonged to the factory owners, not the workers. Workers had no control over the products and what products should

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    increased transplanetary connectivity is ultimately derived from human drives to maximize material well-being (through markets) and to exercise basic freedoms (as guaranteed by publicly accountable government). For liberalists globalization is an outcome of people’s strivings to escape poverty as well as to achieve civil and political rights. On a liberalist account it is inherent in market

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    are no longer contradictory and are recognized as inter-dependent spheres. While poverty has numerous causes that create and reinforce it, the central cause of poverty is the contradiction between social reproduction and economic production. In capitalist society, economic production outweighs social reproduction, simply because economic production brings in money, which is what gives individuals purchasing power and the ability to

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    Changes in the Land by William Cronon Essay

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    The Europeans changed the land of the home of the Indians, which they renamed New England. In Changes in the Land, Cronon explains all the different aspects in how the Europeans changed the land. Changing by the culture and organization of the Indians lives, the land itself, including the region’s plants and animals. Cronon states, “The shift from Indian to European dominance in New England entailed important changes well known to historians in the ways these peoples organized their lives, but it

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    The character of Bartleby in Herman Melville’s novella “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” is a person who refuses to become an object in capitalistic society. Initially, he is the perfect example of the objectification and mechanization of humans in the workplace. In essence, Bartleby is a machine that continually produces. Ultimately, he begins to resist the mind numbing repetition of his tasks and the mechanization of his life. The other main character, the narrator, is a facilitator

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    Means of Criticizing Capitalism and Its Crimes Against Humanity Herman Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" scrutinizes the alienation of labor, the social ideologies and the dehumanizing consequences of the American capitalist society in the 19th century. Bartleby is the main character in the story. The other characters in the story, Ginger Nut, Nippers and Turkey, barely survive their pragmatic enslavement because they have been brainwashed by the ideology of

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