... "literature influences or 'shapes' society literature functions socially to maintain and stabilize" (425). For my theory on the relationship between literature and society, I am using Plato, Wordsworth, Marx, Bakhtin, Fitzgerald, Mitchell, and Althusser. I believe that literature and society cannot function without each other and that literature is a direct reflection of what is happening in ... exist now because the socially educated people are supposed to create the republic. Not everyone is today's time period is socially educated, therefore the republic would fail. During Plato'...

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... public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels, 177). Communism is a the concept of and ideal society, a utopia if you will. This is derived from ancient sources such as Plato's "Republic"" and to the surprise of many; early Christian communes. Early in the 19th century the idea of communism came as a result of the contempt harbored by the poor and ... . People were there by will and voluntarily cooperated with one another. Everyone in these settlements participated in the governing process (Daniels, 183). The term communisms was later reserved for the philosophy of Karl Marx and Frie...

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... by a revolutionary movement; responsibility for meeting public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels 177). As a concept of an ideal society, communism is derived from ancient sources, including Plato's Republic and the earliest Christian communes. In the early 19th century, the idea of a communist society was a response of the poor and the dislocated to the beginnings of modern capitalism ... , however, eventually failed. Most of these small-scale private experiments involved voluntary cooperation, with everyone participating in the governing process (Daniels). Later the term commun...

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... a rabbi and his father was a successful lawyer who had his entire family baptized for business and social reasons. Marx studied law at Bonn and philosophy at the University of Berlin. While in Berlin he became acquainted with the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. At age twenty-four he became editor of a paper in Cologne, Germany but his radical ideas soon got ... an unconstructive light on points that frequently stirred political debates between communists and capitalists. She specifically singles out Marx's theory on participatory democracy. Marx, unlike democratic reformist...

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NOTES FROM THEORY PACKET KARL MARX • studied law, philosophy, and history • lifelong collaboration w/ Friedrich Engels. • develop a communist ideology. • 1848 produced Communist Manifesto: urging workers to rise and take over the means of production for the exploiting ... form of government is not democracy, but rule by the many in the interest of all. • Anticipates the kind of popular self-rule that came to be called "republican. PLATO • Disciple of Socrates • Founder of philosophic idealism, according to which ideas exist in themselves and by themselves, forming a perfect and...

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