SOCI 100
LESLEY LIN
2010.7.5
If one of your friend accepts the cosmetic surgery and he or she just looks so different than before. Do you think he or she is still the person you know before?
My answer for this question is yes, I do think he or she is still the person I know because they have the same soul. People communicate with each other with their souls, but not the appearance! Soul is the most important thing of a person because it can show all of the personalities of that person, like kind, evil, honest or shady. If you really want to know a person and want to build a good friendship with he or she you should care about his or her soul.
The same principle can also use in the problem between the classical communism and modern socialism. As the time goes on, the communism has also change a lot. After the process of change, the classical communism called modern socialism. The modern socialism just like the person who finish the cosmetic surgery and the classical communism is the person who does not do the cosmetic surgery yet. Even though they have different appearance, they have the most important similarity – the soul. Now let me introduce the classical communism and modern socialism more specifically.
The classical communism comes from the Marxism. It is a very important part of the Marxism. As the time passes, the classical communism slowly changes into the modern socialism and become one of the most important ideologies in the world. At that time period, communism is just the nice hope of the people who are the lower class. But, during the time passes, people know they should make some changes so that their hopes can come true. Then, the modern socialism born.
Some people will say that the classical communism changes too much during the process to become the modern socialism. They are correct because the classical communism and modern socialism are different from the perspective of