The systems of fascism and Marxist socialism derive in part, or more correctly, in response to, liberalism. ... Taking its cue from capitalism, Marxism relies on the lower-class disillusionment to enact a leveling of economic forces versus the bourgeois. ... Marxism believes that all efforts of humanity can be summed up into simple economics, the class war defining the changes of society. ... Marxists see all of history as the interaction of economic class for domination of paradigm. ... Marxists see religion as nothing more than a distraction from reality and as something to be removed in ...

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Plato's utopia consists of three distinct, non-hereditary class systems (Hacker 32). ... Aristotle disagrees with the idea of one class holding discontinuing political power (Hacker 85). The failure to allow circulation between classes excludes those men who may be ambitious, and wise, but are not in the right class of society to hold any type of political power (Hacker 85). Aristotle looks upon this ruling class system as an ill-conceived political structure (Hacker 86). ... The theory of Democracy that Aristotle derived states that democracy is a "perversion" form of gover...

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Plato's utopia consists of three distinct, non-hereditary class systems (Hacker 32). ... Aristotle disagrees with the idea of one class holding discontinuing political power (Hacker 85). The failure to allow circulation between classes excludes those men who may be ambitious, and wise, but are not in the right class of society to hold any type of political power (Hacker 85). Aristotle looks upon this ruling class system as an ill-conceived political structure (Hacker 86). ... The theory of Democracy that Aristotle derived states that democracy is a "perversion" form of government of "poli...

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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet was a true supporter of "Divine Right," or that monarchs derive their right to rule from God and are accountable only to God (The American Heritage Dictionary of English Language). ... The eligibility to vote was contingent on your social class; the upper and mid-upper classes were permitted to vote. ... Also, he wanted to give them more control in their government but did not believe the lower class could make decision about their government. ... Pericles also set out to involve more Athenians in their government by allowing the lower-class to run for office, an...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral vi...

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For instance, Aids harrows far into the middle-class and aggressive minorities are craving their conception of the world in educational system, where Japanese electronics and Japanese cars triumphs and the saving banks are going bankrupt, where the war of the Gulf discloses an evident cynicism. ... As the meaning of politics have changed, thus derived terms of politics changed such as political theory, ideology and hegemony through the history. ...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens, each willing to surrender himself to the entire community, one is able to set limitations on their own behavior, live with others as a whole, and, in doing so, think rationally and act morally. More importantly, by agreeing to the social contract, the people simultaneously give up their physical f...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens, each willing to surrender himself to the entire community, one is able to set limitations on their own behavior, live with others as a whole, and, in doing so, think rationally and act morally. More importantly, by agreeing to the social contract, the people simultaneously give up their physical f...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate