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    According to Karl Marx’s Theory, taken from his “Communist Manifesto” the struggles between the upper class and the lower classes will eventually lead towards civil riots and possible even a revolution. While Aristotle’s Theory in “Poetics” argued that social change is inevitable and a “means to an end”. The book “Twilight”: 1992 by Anne Deavere Smith exemplifies these ideas through the use of multiple perspectives from individuals who witnessed, participated or in someway were affected by the

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    Communism In Russia

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    782) The Chinese imperial rule collapsed in 1911, because of the increasing rise of demand from foreign imperialism. In Russia, where the talk of socialism was common among intellectuals for half a century or more before the revolution, the ideas of Karl Marx were barely known in China. It wasn’t until 1921 that a small Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded, aimed initially at organizing the country’s small urban working class. “While the Bolsheviks had found the majority of their followers among

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    Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx were both well renowned philosophers who have contributed vastly to society through their works, their philosophical thinking, and their revolutionary like mind set. However, compared to many other theorists we covered in class, Rousseau and Marx are very critical towards the contemporary society. The contemporary society or one could say the modern society, in existence to the time being and the social features it connects thorough, contains human interconnection

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    The Lorax is a very universale book because it can relate to children and also adults. Its teaches us that production is not good for everyone and greed is a vile factor in distruction. Karl Marx believe that social classes cause coflict and that there should be no classes. This can easliy lead to positive or negative outcomes and in the Lorax it was negative for one person to controll all of the power. In The Lorax all means of prodution was own by the Once-ler, he did not let anyone else have a

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    Socialism is an economic theory of social organization that believes that the means of making, moving, and trading wealth should be owned or controlled by the community as a whole. For the 2016 presidential election, there are traditionally two political parties: republicans, and democrats. However, Bernie Sanders is a self proclaiming socialist, but for his campaign, is running under the democratic political party. Bernie Sanders' thoughts and ideas are severely flawed and his lack of leadership

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    Why Capitalism Is Bad

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    Capitalism, according to the dictionary, is “an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.” An integral part of America’s society for decades, it has been a poison of corruption in our government. Our capitalist government is failing us and evidence is found in our wars, education system, and the environment. War has become a business opportunity for politicians. America is currently bombing at least

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    Luxemburg thereby argued that imperialism was not yet at its final stage of capitalism, but rather imperialism was already present at the conception of capitalism. “Capitalism needs non-capitalist social strata as a market for its surplus value,” capitalism could not survive without depending on a non-capitalist society, thus, the solution was to further expand and develop an empire that would become recipients or rather buyers of its surplus commodities. In Accumulation of Capital, Luxemburg

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    Karl Marx’s seminal work on capitalism argues class differences, related to the means of production and stratification of economic positions, drive politics (1967). Max Weber extends the argument by conceptualizing distribution of power categories (e.g., class, status group, and party) that operate within spheres of interaction (e.g., economic order, social order, and political order) (Weber, 1978; E. O. Wright, 2002). In contemporary literature, some scholars argue social and cultural groups and

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    The german philosopher, Marx, is considered one of the most influential thinkers of all time. His philosophies are used throughout literature after his time. Marx wrote during a time which the excesses of the new Industrial Revolution were most prominent. His ideas revolutionized thoughts about capitalism and its relation to business, individuals, states and the environment. The motivation of idea behind Marx’s philosophy was the idea of materialism. Materialists believe that it is the material conditions

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    Title Socialism. It has become a pretty big deal in the US as of late, the youth of the US can't fathom why we can't give some more in taxes to give free healthcare, free education, and for some, basic income. Politicians like Bernie Sanders advertise socialism as a superior system to capitalism and that capitalism is immoral on all grounds. I disagree, so did the polish, balkish, germans, the south and north koreans, and more in The Autumn Of Nations and The Korean War to name a few. It should

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