government.”1 In the words of Aristotle every State is a community of some kind. He further explains that like all other communities‚ the state must exist for an end‚ and the end of the state is the highest good of man. He concludes with the popular quote‚ "Man is a political animal".2 Discussion of Aristotle is highly based on ancient Greek city-state so it cannot fulfill the definition of the modern state. The most acceptable definition is from Max Weber who is a renowned German sociologist‚ philosopher
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understand the world in which we live. However‚ for Karl Marx we should not only understand the world‚ but also seek to actively change it (Macintosh‚ 1997). The concept of alienation differs in terms of its sociological meaning in relation to that of the psychological definition and has been used to describe many other phenomena’s over the last four centuries. The aim of this essay is to assess the concept of alienation according to Karl Marx and explore his theory relating to four differing perspectives
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Comparison Essay Snowball is a young‚ smart‚ good speaker‚ who is also idealistic. Leon Trotsky is the other leader of the “October Revolution.” Snowball really wanted to make life better for all while Leon Trotsky was a pure communist and followed Marx. Napoleon was not a good speaker or as clever as Snowball. Joseph Stalin was not a good speaker either and was not educated like Trotsky was. Napoleon was cruel‚ brutal‚ selfish‚ devious and corrupt‚ but Joseph Stalin was the exact same as Napoleon
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unhealthy relationship between men and women which in turn is the root of women’s oppression. Marxist feminist allies themselves with the theories of Karl Marx. Marx and Fredrick Engels constructed the structure of Marxist economics the philosophy of materialism and the basis of social of social analysis which is also known as historical materialism. Marx demonstrated that the working class is being exploited by capitalist‚ who pay workers for a minimum pay of the value they produce for major profit
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before 1850. Both of its authors‚ Marx and Engels‚ were touched by elements of this turmoil. Karl Marx‚ born in 1818‚ came from the Rhineland‚ an area occupied by the French during the Napoleonic Wars. During this period the French abolished feudal restrictions‚ introduced religious toleration and secularised the state. Many‚ like Marx’s father‚ benefited from this liberal regime. When‚ after Napoleon’s defeat‚ the Rhineland passed under Prussian control‚ Hirschel Marx‚ Karl’s father‚ abandoned Judaism
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Why should the capitalist state give way to communist society‚ according to Marx? The main challenge of this essay consists in identifying the reasons according to which Karl Marx considered that the capitalist state should give way to communist society. The base text for answering this question will be Marx’s own work titled “The Communist Manifesto”‚ however this essay will rely on other works of Marx such as “The German Ideology” or “Preface to a critique on political economy” as well as
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developing nation is found‚ under one term or another‚ in numerous theoretical systems having diverse orientation for example‚ ant-imperialism and political economy. In karl max’s economic theory‚ capital accumulation refers to the operation where by profit and reinvested increasing the total quality of capital. Capital is viewed by marx as expanding value that is in other
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Hegel and Historical Cause and Effect Theory of Knowledge Who was Hegel? Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher who wrote during the beginning of the 19th Century. His great achievement was to introduce for the first time in philosophy the idea that History and the concrete are important in getting out of the circle of the perennial problems of philosophy. Also‚ for the first time in the history of philosophy he realized the importance of the Other in the coming to be of self-consciousness
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assertion‚ The Communist Manifesto‚ written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels‚ two German philosophers & revolutionists‚ discuss laid the intellectual foundation of the rise of communism and the broad political pushback against laissez faire capitalism in the 20th century‚ by expressing the aims of the nascent communist party. The two‚ Marx & Engels‚ argue the capitalist system as not only oppressive‚ but “nakedly dehumanizing.” In his study‚ Marx begins his argument describing a class’ struggles
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Lenin’s Perfect World Industrialization hit Russia in the late 1800s‚ and a distinct industrial working class‚ referred to as the proletariat‚ emerged. Originally‚ the idea of Communism was created by Karl Marx‚ and focused on the idea of economic equality. Marx’s idea of the most likely communist revolution did not succeed‚ so Lenin created his own version of a communist revolution. Vladimir Lenin used the advantages of a vulnerable Russia with a growing working class to start the first successful
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