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    background of leadership in the Chinese Civil War and the Long March, and how he maintained his visions and aspirations for China. Mao Zedong’s interest in communism started in 1918, when he began his teaching career. Whilst teaching, Zedong read Marxism, a book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that talks about a conflict theory

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    Durkheim Consensus

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    The ideology of consensus or conflict in terms of societies depends on the views of the individual. Understanding this conflicting issue involves recognition of Durkheim interpretation of societies which states that society has a set of interdependent parts and they have individuals that view society as full of conflicts. He continues to mention that societies function similar to the composition of the human body. The parts of the body are all connected in some form and depend on each other for the

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    affected. Due to this time communism in the 1900s made Marxism come about. It is a movement in art associated with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that looks at the different levels of class and the conflict in each one. Not only in Russia was there problems within the governmental structure, it is a worldwide problem. The Mexican Murals are also a reflection of this idea. Therefore, Russian Constructivism and the Mexican Mural movement employ Marxism as a theory. First, Russian Constructivism was created

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    to be happy. Existential and psychoanalysis both seem to build off a person’s inner self, their core individuality and decides from there what they will or won’t endure for themselves or for others be it family, love ones and or friends. Where Marxism relates mostly to a society rather than an individual within a society as shown in the below excerpt

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    Despite what the title of Hobsbawm’s book can indicate at a first glance, his work is neither a step-by-step textbook of factual information about how history should be written nor a series of directly given guidelines that historians should follow. Instead it is a book composed of twenty-one essays that represent his own work transformed from their previous form as lectures, contributions to conferences or articles and reviews in different journals. As Hobsbawm himself explains, his reflections

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    reached and most likely, never will. The proletariat is at the heart of the Marxist-Maoist approach to politics and the basic way of life for the Chinese masses considering that "...roughly 85% of the population is based in peasantry..." While Marxism, as implemented by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Nationalism have historically hindered the people of China; a growing need to conform to

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    philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was one of the first theorist to develop a conflict perspective on how society functions. His theory became known as Marxism, he saw that the ruling class represented and ruled the common interest of all social groups. Continuing with Marxism, it is a social class conflict within capitalism that

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    Summary of reading: Karl Marx, the father of Marxism, often misunderstood dreamt more of a utopian society than draconian. Marx envisioned the world where people worked not for self-fulfillment but the welfare of all. Additionally, Marx’s abhorrence for capitalism laid the foundation for revolutionary ideas and tactics. His exile to England led to the creation of the International Working Men’s Association, conversely, the first international worker’s organization. In Marx’s book “The Communist Manifesto”

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    Louis Althusser’s Marxist theory of education According to Althusser, the two ways that the state helps to keep the bourgeoisie in power are through the repressive state apparatuses and the ideological state apparatuses. The repressive state apparatuses are a set of people who suppress the working class and when they do so, they support the bourgeoisie’s rules by using physical force. Examples of people who use this force are the police, courts, army and judiciary. The ideological state apparatuses

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    Camilla Hood English 1302 Mary Lasco 1 July 2015 Annotated Bibliography: In “A&P,” John Updike presents readers with an honest narrative structure that features unusual characterization. In the story, John Updike conveys the message of choices and consequences in Sammy’s life. However, as the story develops there is a deeper characterization that arises to the forefront. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. 2014. Print This text is an informative look into John Updike’s life growing up in the

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