...Political 101 Week 2 Assignment 2 Chunta Clark Classical Influences on the Current U.S. President Karl Marx, born May 5 1818,) was a German philosopher, economist, socialist, historian, and revolutionist. (Source google.com) In my opinion, Mr. Marx seemed to resemble the greatest impact on our current Presidents views. Marx focus was the economy was and to create change. During the election, President Obama emphasized on change, as did Marx. As we reflect on history, being a radical leader takes strength and courage, which both Marx and Obama possesses. Marx felt that progress for all people only comes through communication between people facing the same struggles is a language for change. Marx also felt that conflict between classes of people would block progress and production of goods. Obamas seems to have this same opinion; he also believes that division between the democrat and republican parties has blocked the progression of a failing economy. Marx and Obama have similar views concerning social-economics, justice, poverty and our society. Shallow thoughts that running the country by the wealthier classes standards should only benefit that particular class. This despicable thinking seems to disturb Karl Marx and President Obama, also produces internal tension, which leads to self-destruction. This broken Government has been proven that to be found true, our last our last 8 years of republicans. President Bush along with his constituents has pushed the economy to...
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...There is nothing more damning and destructive to America's youth today than the Godless public school system! I thank God for the Bill of Rights. I thank God for the wisdom of our founding fathers. I thank God for the the First Amendment which gives us the legal right to freedom of speech, press, religion, and the right to peaceably assemble and protest. I am exercising my God-given freedom, by publishing this desperately needed article about the Godless and heathen public school system. There is no evil today like the Communist, humanistic, sexually immoral public school system. I detest the public school system! It is destructive to the faith of children! Sex Education Program in Our Public Schools: What Is Behind It? Perhaps you are asking, "What is so wrong with the public school system? In a word, EVERYTHING! Perhaps a better question is: What is right about the public school system? The truth is intolerant my friend. 1 + 1 = 2. Now you can ignorantly claim that 1 + 1 = 3; but you'd be wrong (and probably a product of the public school system). Children are robbed of faith in God in public schools. Instead, children are taught that they evolved from "stardust" which somehow formed into a planet, and then life just happened. Children are taught that humans are animals. If this is true, then bestiality is acceptable, right? This is what the evolutionists teach is it not? A good Christian family is a bulwark for good morals, the soil for the planting of good character, the...
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...universal vice the whole world subjects itself to and that is money. The money has become the root of all evils. Disease, famine, political infighting human rights abuses are all products as a result of lack of money, control of money, and the hoarding of money. In this paper, the extent to which money has corrupt human beings is analyzed. The paper will look at the reasons as to why the evils due to money issue arise and how they are related to alienation as expressed by Karl Marx in his paper-alienated labor. Marx became revolutionary figure because he came to sure that capitalism could not be reformed. At the end, capitalism could only create estrangement and alienation. As Marx describes, there is important connections between greed, private property, the separation of labor, monopoly, exchange and competition, capital and landed property, value and devaluation of man and competition. There is connection between the entire systems of estrangement and that of the money system. Karl Marx perspective Karl points to the common connection between money and the evil. He demonstrates in the consumerism, greed, and profiteering characteristic of capitalism. “Money, and all it symbolizes, is the root of all evils in a deeper”. Money if viewed from outside the system may be seen to do something insidious. It eliminates the very concepts of evil. On the other hand, it makes it impossible to discriminate evil and good. Money is shorthand means to say that capitalistic relations, trade...
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...Business, Government Society Models Interactions among business, government, and society are infinite and their meaning is open to interpretation. Faced with this complexity, many people use simple mental models to impose order and meaning on what they observe. These models are like prisms, each having a different refractive quality, each giving the holder a different view of the world. Depending on the model (or prism) used, a person will think differently about the scope of business power in society, criteria for managerial decisions, the extent of corporate responsibility, the ethical duties of managers, and the need for regulation. The following four models are basic alternatives for seeing the BGS relationship. As abstractions they oversimplify reality and magnify central issues. Each model can be both descriptive and prescriptive; that is, it can be both an explanation of how the BGS relationship does work and, in addition, an ideal about how it should work. The Market Capitalism Model The market capitalism model, shown in Figure 1.2, depicts business as operating within a market environment, responding primarily to powerful economic forces. There, it is substantially sheltered from direct impact by social and political forces. The market acts as a buffer between business and nonmarket forces. To appreciate this model, it is important to understand the history and nature of markets and the classic explanation of how they work. Markets are as old as humanity, but...
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...What is Marxism? Marxism is an economic and social system based upon the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. While it would take veritably volumes to explain the full implications and ramifications of the Marxist social and economic ideology, Marxism is summed up in the Encarta Reference Library as “a theory in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies.” Marxism is the antithesis of capitalism which is defined by Encarta as “an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit.” Marxism is the system of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. Under capitalism, the proletariat, the working class or “the people,” own only their capacity to work; they have the ability only to sell their own labor. According to Marx a class is defined by the relations of its members to the means of production. He proclaimed that history is the chronology of class struggles, wars, and uprisings. Under capitalism, Marx continues, the workers, in order to support their families are paid a bare minimum wage or salary. The worker is alienated because he has no control over the labor or product which he produces. The capitalists sell the products produced by the workers at a proportional value as related to the labor involved...
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...WOMEN UNIVERSITY IN AFRICA FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND GENDER DEVELOPMENT STUDIES PROGRAMME : MSc DEVELOPMENT STUDIES COURSE : PERSPECTIVES IN DEVELOPMENT INTAKE : 5 NAME : NOBUKHOSI NCUBE STUDENT ID : W120979 LECTURER : DR E.S MAKURA ASSIGNMENT: Karl Marx theory shed light on the understanding of relations of people in the society. Discuss. DUE DATE : 06 APRIL 2013. Karl Max’s theory shed light on the understanding of relations of people in the society. Discuss The epistemology of the Karl Marx theory is of the premise that the history of all existing societies is the history of class struggles. Scholars have had a long standing debate on the significance of Karl Marx’s theory of class conflict. The other party argues that the theory of class conflict helps in the understanding of relations of people in society. In contradiction, there are scholars who believe the theory does not help much in understanding societal relations. This essay seeks to establish how the Karl Marx Theory shed light on the understanding of relations of people in the society. In this context society is defined as a group of people in general living together in organized communities with laws and traditions controlling the way that they behave towards one another. Society is divided into three classes namely aristocrats in the upper class, bourgeoisie in the middle and the down liners...
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...The topic I would like to choose is about auto industry, in recent years, cars had played a vital role in people’s everyday life, and it makes life much more easier than ever before. With the rise of gas price, people are more and more concern about what type of energy they will use after using up gas? What I concern is not only the current state of this sector, but also the future car technology. I want to find the issues and opportunities of future car technology. The answers I would like to know by searching this topic are listed. First, I want to know the current situation about auto industry, is there enough gas for us to use? How long can we use before exhaustion of resources. Second, what exactly is new energy, how many types of energy are there can be used on vehicles, is new energy expensive, and the process of what’s the rate of process. Finally, I would like to know what would be the future operation strategies for large auto companies like Toyota, Benz, BMW, etc. I think this paper will be as long as 5 to 7 pages, I will first focus on current auto industry state, how much fuel we use everyday, and raise up to future auto industry, relating with future car technology, site the resources which I found on Wall street Journal and give my own analysis. I found that it might be hard to search for the topic that is completely what I want; I will spend more time on...
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...The difference between capitalisms and socialism is the extent that the government interferes with the financial countries growth of the society. Under capitalism, private citizens can own their own business with limited government interference. Under socialism, the government owns all businesses. Socialist believes that private citizens should share the wealth of the financial growth to equalize out the gap between the wealthy and the poor. Capitalist Society vs. Socialist Society Does one live in a country where they can have the opportunity to have personal wealth or live in a country where the government makes all the decisions? In Belgium, the socialist system believes that everyone should have equal equality; the government does not permit much freedom when it comes to the economy because it controls all forms of capital. Living in a capitalistic country everyone is concentrating on their own personal wealth and success, Socialism is concentrating on society as a whole. Concentrating on a society as a whole can impair society by putting hard working people in the same financial group as the non-hard working people. The same person working hard in the United States can secure success and wealth. In Belgium, that same person is not able to profit from his success or wealth because he has to give his earnings to the government. Julie, who lives in the United States, might try to persuade Jean-Paul that moving to the U.S. would be more beneficial to his overall...
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...SWOT of Background of Mercedes Benz In 1885 the townspeople of Cannstatt, Germany, were startled to see Paul Daimler, son of Gottlieb Daimler, roll away from No.14 Taubenheimstrasse on a wooden-spoked two-wheeler powered by a fraction of a horsepower four-cycle internal combustion engine. That belt driven motorcycle (actually a four-wheeler as it had two eight-inch diameter outrigger wheels to keep it stable when at a standstill) was the forerunner of all automobiles. Gottlieb Daimler was the first man to harness with any true degree of success a combustion engine into a road vehicle. Granted there were horseless vehicle predecessors to Daimler's motorcycle but Daimler's was the first recognized internal combustion vehicle and the first to incorporate a practical transmission system. Shortly after Daimler applied for his combustion motor patent, Carl Benz of Mannheim, Germany was granted a German patent covering a three-wheel motor car he constructed in 1844. This single cylinder, 3/4 hp, benzene fueled motor car had a combination of belts, chains and gears to transmit power to the rubber tired rear wheels but no gear change was possible. Daimler's first four-wheeler, a Victoria-type motor driven carriage, was built in 1886. By 1890 demands for Daimler's engine made expansion necessary and a corporation was formed, the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft. or Daimler Motor Company as it was known in English. Benz, with several associates formed another corporation, Benz & Company...
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...1. Material things, which describe your social status. Digital generation and democracy absolutely changed basic explanation about describing of your social status in many of countries, except of Ukraine and some countries, which in any way want to show their social status with help of expensive cars and clothes with bright names! But in the counties with higher development all this things went out and changed into knowledge and things which really represent you status but not your money. Let’s take typical businessman in our country, he can’t get along without big cars, lie Toyota Prado or Land cruiser, it’s quite funny, but its reality ! Second point not all elder rich people, but all their children wants to wear the most expensive and bright clothes from famous brands, traveling European countries I noticed, that native livers of this countries, not only don’t wear (in many cases) bright clothes if they have money for that, but also trying not to wear this if they are very wealthy. As for me we should follow this example and try to build our image not only on glamour things, but also on their own knowledge, experience and be more honest and hard-working. Here is the real point of modern image! 2. Things which create modern image (or the bright pack of your life) You a successful top manager in big company, you have a huge profit and your life fill with things, you always wanted, but you don’t have IMAGE! As Wikipedia says (it’s also is one of points of modern image)...
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...Concepts and Theories in Politics Welcome to Introduction to Politics! This lecture will supplement what you will hear in class. I’m going to discuss some important methodological and substantive issues having to do with political science, including the role of concepts and theories, human nature and politics, and ideologies. If you need more background, I suggest taking a look at Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision; C.B. Macpherson, The Real World of Democracy; or Robert Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory. To begin with, in some ways it is a misnomer to speak of political “science.” One crucial difference between political science and the natural sciences is that in the latter there is normally only one dominant paradigm at a time, while in the former there are what might be called competing paradigms. As T.S. Kuhn establishes in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, there was a paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican universe; in other words, from the idea that the Earth is the center of the universe we move to the idea that the Earth in fact goes around the sun, a radical conception when it was first put forward in 16th-century Europe but one that is now universally accepted. In the social sciences, however, there is no overriding consensus on how to analyze reality (or even on what counts as reality). In political science, for example, three major views may be distinguished on power and authority in the United States: (a) the pluralist model, in which...
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...Marxist Justice Karl Marx believed that society as a whole would be better if the bourgeois and proletariat classes were combined. In other words, with everyone in society having the same means, when one person experiences misfortune, for instance the loss of a home, everyone pays a small amount and helps that person. In my opinion I feel that Marx had sound beliefs but his ideologies are diluted by the concept of the middle class in today’s world. Only taking into consideration the capitalist and the laborer eliminates the middle class and our society is too diverse to not fill this category. Marx beliefs that our society would be a better unit as a combined class doesn’t seem to fufill a better good as it would hinder the rest of society if any individual was at a loss. The implementation of providing help to others when they have misfortune seems great but not at the cost of total equality. Disallowing individuality would create a lack of innovation and hinder creativity at a high cost. Our society has grown due to entrepreneurs, and small business owners and in a Marxist society all this would be eliminated. I don’t agree with Marx’s idea of justice and would not want to live in a Marxist society becuase a society of equals would eliminate any type of competition which would eliminate motivation and competitive markets/economies. Living In a classless society would eliminate personal individuality, society would think as a whole, totally eliminating individual decision...
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...A.S Wheeler: the Product of Labor Versus Eugene V. Debs: Capitalism and Socialism “Two men engage in fishing in the same boat; they have the same tackle and the same bait. One, by his superior skill, catches twice as many fish as the other; is not each entitled to the fish he has caught”? This is just one of many good examples Wheeler has, and it illustrates the basic way to understand capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system that allows private owners to profit from the goods and services they provide. One of the cornerstones of this system is the right of the individual to choose what to produce, how to produce it, and what price to sell it. Also known as the free market system, capitalism requires unregulated supply and demand and little or no government interference in matters of trade. Each individual is free to produce what he or she wants and to sell it at whatever price the market will support. These decisions are typically made by the laws of supply and demand: if there is no demand for a product, the producer won't be able to make a profit, but if the demand is high, he or she can sell a lot of goods. In an ideal world, everyone benefits because producers only create what people want and consumers will only pay what they think the product is worth. The more demand there is for a product, the more goods are produced, and ideally the more the price goes down. In this system, competition between businesses is good for consumers because it too drives prices down...
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... Modernization in the United States has four traits which were identified by Peter Berger in 1977. The first trait was the decline of small, isolated communities. Approximately one hundred years ago there were 40% of Americans living in cities. Today, 80% of the population lives in cities. The next trait is the expansion of personal choice. Most people choose their lifestyles instead of allowing others to make that decision for them. The next trait is the rising amount of diversity in the United States. Interracial couples are more accepted now then it was even 20 years ago. The fourth trait is the orientation toward the future and a growing awareness of time. Now people are planning for their future instead of reminiscing on the past. Karl Marx, A revolutionary socialist believes these traits are necessary for capitalism to flourish. “According to Marx, capitalism draws population away from farms and small towns into an ever-expanding market system centered in the cities” (Society: The Basics, Eleventh Edition, by John J. Macionis, Ch 16, pg 489). Many believed Marx’s views on modern capitalist society were negative, but he was positive on creativity, human freedom, and community. I believe modernization will continue in the United States, as our country is always looking for ways to develop new technology to make things in life quicker and more convenient. Fifteen years ago, laptop computers were becoming popular and the public were amazed that we can take our computer...
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...Communism vs. Capitalism In Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, he describes the Communists as the party that "fights for the interests of the working class"(136), while in a Capitalist society, the "living person is dependent and has no individuality-----only capital is dependent and has individuality"(84). That is not the case of today's society once you take a closer view at the comparison and contrast of communist Vietnam versus the democratic United States of America through their economy systems, educational systems, judicial systems, and the life style of their citizens in general. In a capitalist, democratic nation such as the U.S., freedom gives us just about everything and anything that the Vietnamese do not have under their communist government. Contrary to what Karl Marx has written in his manifesto, the living people of a capitalist nation (i.e. USA) of today are more independent and possess more individualities than ever. Economic-wise, Americans are the most progressive people in the world. The U.S. government is not directing the flow of its economy, but the individual businesses of its people are. These people have all the rights in the world to improve their businesses, as long as they are conducting them under the legal guidelines of the government. Such freedom in a capitalist society gives the Americans much greater advantages over the Vietnamese in improving economic conditions. When we touch upon the subject of education, only eighty percent...
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