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hand, focuses on theories surrounding labor and alienation. Both have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subj...

cashier or general store worker. It is an alienation that has seemingly persisted throughout the ages in a variety of settings. W...

suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...

higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich-will ma...

that these struggles differed within each historical stage (Cosner 1999: Marx). In contrast to his predecessors, who saw the strug...

is dead, at least as a philosophy, in the sense that it can never be implemented. While there is much lip service given to democra...

that different groups may be oppressed. For instance, WEB DuBois fought for the oppression of African Americans whereas Marx and E...

such as the labor theory of value and economic determinism. Economic determinism, above all, embraces the concept that economic fa...

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

everyone is unhappy in society and to look at the world as one composed of boxes or cages or bureaucracy seems rather hopeless. In...

in the power structure of the time to allow rule by the previously exploited working class (the proletariat,) and the termination ...

old stereotype that the only way to get out of the ghetto is through basketball or rap has some truth. People are born into a cert...

used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

anyone can do given a reasonable amount of training. Reich uses the example of AT&T and its phone assemblers. The company had a ...

be necessary to take over these assets by making "despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois p...

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

The left wing, also known as Young Hegelians, emphasized the analysis of contradictions (Kamenka, 1983). The left looked at cont...

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have ...

living, they may be making a lot of money, but they are also spending a lot. Upon retirement, they can sell a home in the Northeas...

every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the...

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

argue that such public officials will do good things once they get the money, but the ultimate goal is for fame and fortune. The n...

history. This paper describes his life, how he formed his beliefs, and what his contemporaries thought of him. It also discusses h...

surpass them (Kerbo, 2009, p. 52). As this indicates, issues of power, status and economics have tremendous influenced the ways in...

This essay begins by describing the moral and political philosophies of John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Benito Mussolini...

In 1867, Karl Marx wrote that all capitalists exploit their employees, that employees were just another commodity to them. Sadly, ...