...Krampus There was an Engel family, it was Dec.5th 2015 in Atlanta there was a son named Max, a daughter named Beth, a mother named Sarah and a father named Tom. Their family just got home from the grocery store so Sarah was just about to cook dinner for their family and the kids mom sister was about to come over with their family. To stay for Christmas Beth and Max hated it when they came over because all they ever wanted to do was fight with each other, eat and watch television. So then Sarah heard a knock at the door and it was them so Beth went up to her room to text her boyfriend because she did not want to be around her aunt’s kids then boom! Aunt Dorothy came bursting through the door with her big bags and suit cases...
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...Sociology essay Intro Assess the contribution of Marxism to our understanding of families and household. Marxism is the political and economic theory formed by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels. “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” – Karl Marx He is trying to say religion is the drug of people. It’s what keeps them alive in these wretched times. The oppressed creatures are the lower classed people forced to work every day just to feed their families. The heartless world are the capitalist, the selfish rich people who have never labored a day in their life. The soulless conditions therefore become the terrible conditions under which the poor have to work in. Marx is trying to show the system of hierarchy in the quote. Religion is the only thing the poor can hold on to, it can’t be taken away from them. Religion is the escape to find hope and salvation in the sense that one day they don’t have to work under the rich people. Marxism is the theoretical debate on understanding of different classes in society, taking as its starting point the necessary economic activities required by everyday people to provide for their material needs. Engels and zaretskys view will be discussed as well as the new rights, functionalists and Marxist feminists. Friedrich Engels Engels (1820-1895) was a German social scientist as well as becoming the joint father of Marxism. He had...
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...wealth and poverty apparent in most industrialist cities and was further enforced by the onset of the First World War. The Metamorphosis reflects upon the economic struggle caused by the onset of the industrial revolution and the chaos caused by the onset of the First World War in Europe, between the large number of diverse economic and social philosophies such as the struggle between communism and capitalism which shaped the global struggles in the latter half of the twentieth century. In 1847 Frederick Engels, defined communism in The Principles of Communism as, “the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat” (1), the proletariat’s being the lower working classes which sell their labor to gain capital (Engel 2). The communist ideal calls for the rejection of capitalistic ideals and the adoption of a classless society with no private ownership of resources but rather public ownership of capital resources in order to avoid the evils of capitalism (Engel 13). The Metamorphosis reflects communistic ideals in its depiction of Gregor and the Samsa family, Gregor in the first pages of the book is depicted as a massive vermin, unable to provide or care for himself or his family (Kafka 3). Soon after we learn that Gregor works a low paying menial wage job as a traveling salesman (Kafka 4), Gregor’s lowly position presents him as the proletariat enveloped into...
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...Liberal capitalism was as well known and tried system in Great Britain during the 19th century. However, around the late 19th century a new system began to appear, communism. These two systems were quite different when it came to their political and economic views. This new system gave rise to some believing that maybe it was time for Great Britain to change their former system of liberal capitalism to one that is more communist in nature. Others believed it was better to leave the system as it was. To decide on which would be better for the country one must first look at the ideas that lay behind both liberal capitalism and communism. One had to delve into the core of both systems and discover not only the positive implications, but also the possible negative implications as well. The term liberal capitalism is one that was well known throughout Great Britain. It was a system based upon the individual. It was a system that was primarily driven by free enterprise and the existence of classes. The government had very little say in what the market was like; this was known as a free market. The primary view was that this was the best form of economic system due to the fact that the individuals themselves set the amount of production and the prices of those products. David Ricardo believed that the wages received naturally fluctuated to meet the minimum subsistence requirements for workers. As he stated, “The market price of labour is the price which is really paid for it” (“Ricardo...
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...Ana Flores HUM-101 September 2014 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were several historical and cultural events that shaped human thought. Marx, Darwin, Freud, Nietzche, and Dostoevsky had to do with some of the events that shaped human thoughts in many ways. Marx published “The Communist Manifesto” this introduced his concept of socialism as a natural result of inherited conflict due to capitalism. Marx’s movement was known as the Young Hegelians, in which they criticized the political and cultural establishments during his time. Marx was constantly moving from country to country in Europe due to his writing. He believed that the he would completely remove capitalism for good by making the workingmen the ruling class of the world. In the twentieth century Darwin’s movement was associated with a theory of evolution. His theory was mainly focused on natural selection. Darwin believed that the biological laws affect all living beings and that this lead to a struggle for survival, with particular physical and mental capacities interfering with advantages to some individuals and not others. Darwin’s movement influenced scientifically but in a social aspect as well. Freud was a highly original thinker and was influenced by many things in his life. He lived in a different time from Darwin but believed his scientific theory could have been better. His thought had a strong impact on psychology. He wrote about sex, dreams, religion and many more...
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...This topic is just like debating that who is greatest — Jesus or Muhammad? Both of them have their respective specifications and they can’t be equated with each other. In an attempt to focus some greatest souls across the world, TopYaps lists top 10 famous people, better known for their unparalleled contribution in changing the course of world, the course of history. 10. Bill Gates: Bill Gates created his first computer program while still at high school, co-founded Microsoft in 1977, and by 1993 was the richest man on Earth. In 2000 Gates and his wife formed the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, which is the largest charity in the world. One of its aim is to exempt the Third World of polio and other deadly diseases. 9. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of blacks in the Southern states of the United States. He was influenced by Gandhi and believed in peaceful protest. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. King was assassinated in 1968, but will always be remembered for his dignified, passive resistance to an unjust society. 8. Nelson Mandela: Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to the fight against apartheid – a policy which kept black and white South Africans apart and denied black citizens the vote. He was imprisoned in 1964 for his aggressive opposition to South Africa’s racist government and was held for 26 years. In 1990, after his release, Mandela was elected President of the African National...
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...Throughout history, there have been numerous socialist movements, but perhaps the most famous of these movements is communism. The figurehead of the communist movement is a man named Karl Marx, an outspoken leader in communist philosophy during the 1800’s. In 1848, he teamed up with his good friend Friedrich Engels to write what has become a classic example of political philosophy. In their book, the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels describe the proletariat as the revolutionary class because they believed that the proletariat’s terrible conditions would inspire them to revolt, rather than beat them down into submission; Marx was misguided in this philosophy because proletariat revolutions never accomplish true, lasting change, instead it is when the bourgeoisie revolts that revolutions have positive and lasting results....
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...MARXISM Over 150 years ago Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto. In The Communist Manifesto they were the first to give a thorough and scientific analysis of the laws and workings of capitalist society: why it results in the polarization of wealth and how it can be overthrown. In the last few years their ideas have been regaining popularity. At the end of 1999 Marx was voted the greatest thinker of the millennium in a BBC online poll. It is the economic crisis of capitalism internationally that has forced many to reassess their view of Marx. Capitalism is a cyclical system: crises can be caused by a number of factors, such as financial crashes or political unrest. Marx recognized that capitalism, despite all its abuses, played an important role in developing the productive forces and the world market. It was an advance from the feudal societies that preceded it. Today, capitalism has developed the world market and the wealth, science and technology have laid the foundations for a socialist society. Under capitalism, wealth and power have always been concentrated in the hands of the capitalists. And the development of technology is driven by the need for profit. The anarchy of the capitalist market always results in increasing wealth and power for a few but poverty for the many. Today the capitalists are a far wealthier and a far smaller class than they were in Marx's time. In the last 50 years the wealth gap between the richest 20% of humanity and...
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...In the late 1700’s and 1800’s several theories regarding the economy emerged. Some economic theorist such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels write about whats wrong with the economy and how they wanted to fix the economy. The eighteenth century thinker Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) is taken as a very useful example of liberal ideas. Adam Smith was both the explained and advocate of liberal capitalism, and the forerunner of the critique of capitalism. Smith believes that societies should be protected against the invasion of other societies meaning, societies should not be affected by other societies, and all citizens should have the same justice in every way. Smith thinks the motivation of improving your self work goes to the production of goods in a economic system. People want to improve their social status with improves the economy, the reason people work is to make money and money is the foundation to a stable government. Friedrich Engles and Karl Marx, they both believed in modern day communism and socialism. they both thought that the problem with society is that it was very hard to get a job wasn't like today with you give a application and they see if you qualify, back then very few jobs not a lot of shops to work at and even if a random person got a job witch is unlikely, the job would pay horribly; and when you don't have a job your poor, on the streets and starving. So at that point you either end up stealing money and food or you just die of hunger...
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...I have known [] in the capacity of his World History teacher for the last four years. I taught him first during GCE O Levels and I am currently teaching him in GCE A Level. He is easily one of the top few if not the top student that I have taught in my teaching career. [] is extremely driven and his thirst for knowledge takes him to unexpected shelves of college and other libraries around Lahore. I know this because he usually comes searching for me after these visits to discuss new ideas he has picked up or discuss subsequent book lists. He took five extra subjects at GCE O Levels and secured A*’s in all of them. Word History was one of these subjects and is usually taught only at GCE A Levels in Aitchison and at first, the school administration was reluctant to introduce it for GCE O Level students. [] decided to take the initiative to convince them that it would be a good idea and wrote an application to the headmaster detailing why the subject should be offered and then he went around convincing people in his batch to take up World History until there was a sufficient number of students to convince the administration. In class, he has demonstrated an ability to critically analyse historical events. He presents interesting arguments that are well thought out and incisive. His subject knowledge is not restricted to the syllabus. Last week, our class was having a general discussion on Bolshevism and Marxism. I was greatly impressed by his answers and arguments that he supported...
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...Engels and Marx: Fathers of Communism Alfredo Lopez English 1A Professor Snyder 12 May 2014 “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.” –Karl Marx This single sentence is the foundation on which Karl Marx and Frederick Engels founded Communism. Their mission was to free the oppressed from the powers of economy and religion. According to the Oxford English Dictionary Communism is “A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.” Communism was formed to show that the working and poor class, often called proletarians or “blue-collar” workers, was the foundation for any strong country, that without these lower members of society, a country would fall apart. Marx wanted to show the world this so he laid out a plan for Communism, with ten essential points. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after a short spell as editor of a liberal newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris, a hotbed of radical thought. There he became a revolutionary communist and befriended...
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...Karl Marx and Marxism Karl Marx set the wheels of modern Communism and Socialism in motion with his writings in the late nineteenth century. In collaboration with his friend, Heinrich Engels, he produced the The Communist Manifesto, written in 1848. Many failed countries' political and socio-economic structures have been based on Marx's theories, for example the USSR, East Germany etc. Many people believe that Marxism is not applicable to today's society, as Karl Marx put forward his ideas not anticipating the type of society we have today. The welfare state system has effectively nullified Marx's arguments, and made them irrelevant. Karl Marx, born on May 5, 1818, died on March 14, 1883, was a German economist, philosopher and revolutionist whose writings form the basis of the body of ideas known as Marxism. In his youth he was deeply affected by the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, and joined a rebel group called the Young Hegelians, which contributed ideas towards the movement against organized religion and the Prussian Autocracy. Later on in life, he was influenced by the writings of Ludwig Feuerbach, who wrote that God was invented by humans as a projection of their own ideals, and that in creating such a 'perfect' being, in contrast to themselves, mankind lowered themselves to lowly, evil creatures who needed guidance from the church and government. He said that, in creating God in their own image, humans had 'alienated themselves from themselves.' ...
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...por mucho tiempo, que en muchos sentidos la progresión de nuestra historia se asemeja a un bucle; aunque claro está que muchos dirán que tal afirmación no es verdad, porque si aquélla fuera cierta dónde quedarían todos los avances científicos, tecnológicos, industriales, arquitectónicos, económicos, artísticos, entre otros, que hemos visto a través del desarrollo de la especie humana. Por supuesto, nada de esto se puede negar, pero si nos remitimos exclusivamente a la razón, al comportamiento, a las acciones que desencadena nuestro pensamiento racional, lo planteado comienza a cobrar sentido. Para analizar esto con algo más de detalle, podemos abordar los tres últimos siglos, por medio de figuras históricas como Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx y Hannah Arendt. De tal manera, en el siglo XVIII Kant en su texto “Respuesta a la pregunta ¿qué es la ilustración?”, expresa la necesidad del hombre de salir de la minoría de edad, la cual se puede entender como la falta de capacidad del hombre para razonar por sí mismo, dependiendo de otros (como el Estado) para tomar sus decisiones; incapacidad que se origina porque es más cómodo y fácil permanecer en la ignorancia y dejar que sea otro el que decida el rumbo de nuestras acciones, que esforzarnos para pensar por nosotros mismos, que tener el valor para trabajar duro por la libertad, por la libertad para pensar,...
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...“...the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern industry and of the worldmarket, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway…” – Karl Marx. Karl Marx in the communist manifesto, praises the Bourgeois for establishing a worldmarket, which gave birth to immense development in commerce, navigation, communication and expanding the industry. However, he also argues, that as the bourgeois continue to broaden the 22 capital market, it pushes back every other class to a lesser decreed. As the bourgeois developed, so did their political power. The bourgeois exploits the proletariat as laborers, a mere commodity to the means of production to further their own interests in establishing themselves as the dominant power. The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, with them the whole relations of society 24. Therefore, as the bourgeois try to maximize their profits through the mechanics of competition and free trade, nations become interdependent on each other, and the proletariat is not only from one country or region, but an international set of people. The labourers, are seen as a means of production, and therefore to maximize profit (which is the key goal of capitalists), labours are are exploited to a degree of unfair working conditions, low wages and illtreatment as their availability or supply is more than its demand...
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...February 27, 2012 SOC 200 Karl Marx Growing up in communist Romania in the 70’s and 80’s, deprived of the most basic liberties, as young children we were indoctrinated with communist ideas and schools were used merely as platforms in which curriculum strictly controlled with the purpose of instilling in youth communist principles. Karl Marx’s portrait would hang in every classroom above the old blackboard and his theories were studied and celebrated in every history book, literature book, economics, or any book for that matter. Sociology and Psychology were considered pseudo-sciences under the communist reign and therefore forbidden in schools. As Romanian history books were altered from the truth, describing only his greatest achievements and never the flaws, for the purpose of this project I was rather intrigued to research Karl Marx – I hated him for so many years - and take a really close look at who he actually was, and how he impacted the study of Sociology. I knew that he established the basis of communist ideology, and I have lived for twenty years through the atrocities committed by his followers, but I never really had the interest ( until now) to understand what influenced and drove him into envisioning and writing his proposals for change. Karl Marx was born in 1818 in the German Rhineland (Prussia). He was a philosopher, journalist and economist and even though he produced little that earned him money or recognition during...
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