Dictatorship of the proletariat

century. Romanovs were absolute monarchs since 17th century. In 1894 tsar Nicholas was influenced by Rasputin a mystic. Karl Marx gave the theory of communism. He said workers as proletariat which means they should only rule. Vladimir changed the theory he said some of the proletariat should stand further and prefer dictatorship. After

different ideologies of the good life and each philosopher has their own values and beliefs. I decided to pick one of the most well known philosophers, Karl Marx. Karl Marx’s philosophy is by far one of the most looked at. He called capitalism the dictatorship of the upper class. , saying that it was run by the wealthy class solely to make profit and maximize their own benefits. The end product and goal of capitalism was simply economic gain. In this philosophy there has to be organized production

Karl Marx: Life and Times Born in Trier, Germany in 1818 Karl Marx hailed from a prosperous Jewish family. His father, Heinrich Marx, practiced law and was a man of honour. It was Heinrich Marx who ensured that his young son was fed on a diet of Locke, Diderot and Voltaire. Karl Marx, in his childhood, along with his family, embraced Christianity so that his father could continue practice of law. Karl enrolled for the law course in University of Bonn. In his student days at the University of Bonn

the members of the communist party. The pigs even were “ walking on their hind legs” and they “all carried whips in their trotters” (Orwell 91-92) much like how the communist government in Russia turned into a dictatorship. The horses portrayed many human characteristics that the proletariat had. They both were uneducated, were the hardest working class and exhibited a great amount loyalty to Napoleon, despite how he treated them. The other animals of the Animal Farm also had some of their own anthropomorphic

The political ideologies of Bakunin’s Anarchism, Lenin’s Bolshevism and Hayek’s Neoliberalism all offer a critique of the state. Upon comparing and contrasting these ideologies a surprising similarity, as well as several differences reveal themselves. The lone similarity of the political philosophies of Bakunin, Lenin and Hayek is that the capitalist state is the protector and enforcer of property rights. Agreement between the three ends there as they all diverge on the issue of whether the state

animals lived equally; they studied, and made the 7 commandments for the equality of all animals. Until two of the pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, struggled for power and after some time, social division came back and they found themselves under another dictatorship. That’s when the pigs became the dominant characters that led and dominated the farm and the rest of the animals became the submissive character who worked for the

A. Plan of Investigation In 1966, Mao mobilized the Chinese youth to initiate the “Cultural Revolution”, a violent process eliminating old Chinese culture, customs, thoughts and habits, purging “counter-revolutionary” party members, and heightening Mao’s personality cult. I will summarize evidence collected from textbooks, official documents, biographies and eyewitness reports about the events between 1959 and 1966. I will describe the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s resignation as

psychologists, and philosophers. In the Frankfurt School, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno interpret the sociopolitical implications of film differently from Walter Benjamin. Horkheimer and Adorno see film as a means to deceive and manipulate the proletariat—although Benjamin critiques capitalist exploitation of film, he argues that film can serve revolutionary purposes. In the context of historical film, Benjamin 's arguments are more convincing than Horkheimer and Adorno 's; film is not inherently

intentions, the way they reached their goals were different. Lenin rose to power after Russian society overthrew the czar, allowing him to take control of a democratic republic, while Stalin rose to power after Russian society had already been under a dictatorship for some time now. Also, while Lenin was more focused on socialist ideals to have complete economic control on land and business, Stalin mainly focused on his communist ideology to maintain his power violently, causing Stalin to fall out of his

Niccolo Machiavelli and Karl Marx developed theories concerning wealth and poverty in our society, as well as different types of governments. For instance, Machiavelli supported a capitalist economic system, unlike Marx, who embraced socialism in the society. Machiavelli wrote a book "The Prince" that explained how to be an effective leader. The theme of the book is "the end justifies the means." A person could or should do whatever is necessary to achieve the desired goal. According to Machiavelli