... his affairs with married women have become a major topic of local gossip, Arthur focuses on himself and does not care much about the others. For the interpretation of the novel, we must point out that Arthur's excessive lifestyle (containing violent struggles, illegal sex and a lot of drinking) is not only ... "his people" being made risking and losing their lives for a government not at all caring about them. Apart from that, the relationship of his parents was characterised by many problems and Arthur himself as well as his brothers and sisters have suffered from their tyrannical fathe...

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... his affairs with married women have become a major topic of local gossip, Arthur focuses on himself and does not care much about the others. For the interpretation of the novel, we must point out that Arthur's excessive lifestyle (containing violent struggles, illegal sex and a lot of drinking) is not only ... "his people" being made risking and losing their lives for a government not at all caring about them. Apart from that, the relationship of his parents was characterised by many problems and Arthur himself as well as his brothers and sisters have suffered from their tyrannical fathe...

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... , rather than an individual character with depth and development. Jurgis plays the role of the everyman- he embodies the struggles of the proletariat who is exploited by capitalism- these struggles range from being laid off, injured on the job, reduced to begging to losing his wife and family to rape and death. Every chapter in the book is chalk full of horrible events that little room is left ... for actual consideration of the characters. As such, the reader learns from Jurgis the ways in which capitalism stifles the working class. Upton Sinclair strategically subjects Jurgis to the at...

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... life (Kennedy, 2000). The level of inequality, the power of elites, how inequality is maintained, among many other aspects of society, are all influenced by political ideology, religion, family systems, or, more generally, culture (Kerbo, 2003, p.78). "Continuing levels of racism and sexism that produce inequalities do so through the occupational, authority, and property structures" (Kerbo, 2003, p.332, CHAPTER ELEVEN). "Because the upper classes have usually ... had the means to make their view of social phenomena the accepted view (b/c of their free time ... ...

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... if capitalism continues to exploit workers for the benefits of the rich. The novel distorts Charles Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" by telling the story of a scientist who travels into the future only to discover that the indulged wealthy have degenerated into helpless beings, and the oppressed poor have degenerated into underground cannibals. The futuristic tale illustrates the true essence of Darwin's theory: ... not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?" (Wells 36). While this fictional...

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... abuse. Even still, Gladkov provides another emotional window to his audience, allowing them to witness the panging, hidden guilt Dasha does feel for letting her daughter die. After Nurka's death, the narrator describes Dasha's reaction: " And herein this lonely, unobserved corner, smelling of earth and vegetation she lay crying for a long time, digging with her fingers into ... his relationship with his wife. Like Dasha, Gleb learns that he must shift his devotion to the greater good of the Soviet state. He then abandons the luxuries of his previous home and personal relationship with Da...

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... provides equality for everyone, eliminating class distinctions. It gives control to the largest portion of the people, advocates for the equality of women in the work force, and provides for all. Therefore, Marxism is ultimately the correct way to organize a society, if only for the reason that the state is controlled by the proletariat, the largest sector of the population. The educational structure of a Marxist society consists of pupils obeying their instructors ... longer be based on market prices or societal worth, but rather the amount of human labor that goes into production and ...

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... audience focused. If Sinclair would have left out the detail of the meat packing process, the book's purpose would be clearer. Instead, Sinclair gives the public many things to consider: The poor working conditions, the unsanitary meat packing process, corruption throughout the capitalists. To Sinclair's misfortune, the people were less appalled by the poor working conditions, and evils of capitalism, than the disregard of sanitation in processing meat in factories throughout ... Sinclair were to follow these guidelines before writing The Jungle. Propaganda is most effective when it app...

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... sympathize and creates a sense of urgency to promote change. Furthermore, in Valparaiso, they discover the social problems established by government, like the overcrowding and the almost non- existence of economic help for the community which is portrayed through the personification that their "distended nostrils inhale the poverty with sadistic intensity. Furthermore, the critique that it "is time that politicians and put less effort wasting time in ... the goddesses of their propaganda..", highlights the corruption involved in political activity, where propaganda is favoured over addr...

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... . Fascism is not concerned with the past, nor with political establishments currently in place. The fascist seeks to eradicate tradition and pursue the advancement of the State at any cost. In this effort, the concept of Pacifism is alien. The fascist believes that humanity is defined by its performance and courage in war, finding the ultimate decision, life or death, to be the truest test of men available, all ... which cannot be imposed upon by the State. Fascism denies these beliefs as counter-productive to the health of the State at large, and consequently the health of the governed....

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Hypocrisy is a form of faking and acting; you become the main character of a situation you are trying to hide. Hypocrisy is not a good thing; you become cynical and start affecting others only to save yourself. There is a very interesting quote by Alan Dershowitz, which says, "Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral ... is not the same as acting morally"; in few words it ... ask forgiveness to. And by going to church she feels like she is giving some relief to her conscience and that she is doing something good or maybe even...

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... a break from the provisional government. However the support grew for him and the Bolsheviks after the Petrograd uprising. The military offensive, the reaction of the Petrograd workers to the Kornilov coup, the suspicion that Kerensky was to surrender to the Germans and the growing support that came from the factory workers from Petrograd. Lenin knew that he had gained so much support. He said "We cannot be guided by the mood of the masses that ... is changeable and unaccountable The masses have given their confidence to the Bolsheviks and ask from them not words but deeds." Although Le...

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... Revolutionaries. Realizing the power that the Bolsheviks had must be maintained, Lenin dissolved the assembly, which further weakened the relationship with the people. During the summer of 1918, a new civil war had begun. The problem for the Bolsheviks was that they were engaged in a crippling war with the rest of the country. The Bolsheviks found it difficult to rule the country when they were constantly faced with being over thrown by another party ... . An army known as The Whites began to quickly ... ...

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... . "It was a party with authoritarian tendencies, and one that had always had a strong leader "even, according to Lenin's opponents, a dictatorial one."" Idealism was thrown away by realism in Russia as Lenin failed to convince the whole of Russia of his policies, meeting much resistance in a country already exhausted from World War I. It was no surprise that Marxism appealed to much of ... for several of Russia's problems. "As good Marxists, the Bolsheviks nationalized banking and credit very quickly after the October Revolution. But they did not immediately embark upon wholesale nationa...

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... and so to realize the importance of grouping individual lives within encompassing cultural patterns. This was a decade of political and economic troubles, when the people first felt the full threats and consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Barnaby Rudge is the first of Dickens' novels to show an awareness of problems. The need for parliamentary reform is backed by the Chartist Agitation. The American episodes in Martin ... Chuzzlewit further prove Dickens' realization of the power of society over its individual members. Dickens, with ... his family in a debtor's prison, worked at ...

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... conditions. Sinclair exposed corruption in a variety of businesses in The Jungle, however his main focus was Chicago's meat-packing industry. Diseased meat, unsanitary working conditions and death were some of the awful conditions described by Sinclair. Death was a major issue in the novel. The deaths in The Jungle shed light on the theme that capitalist societies will do whatever it takes to get ... what they desire, sacrificing weak lives in the way. Other deaths were caused by the horrendous working conditions in the large capitalist businesses other than just the packing houses, whi...

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... to restore man to his place as a functioning, fulfilled, and fruitful member of society. The chains bound to him by meaningless work and the exploitation of all workers for their simple value of simply creating "things" while feeling the reduction of the self to a "thing", something inhuman, is predatory for the Proletariat. The question that needs to be answered is -is there a need for man to be ... fulfilled and free of the boundaries laid by years of Capitalist expansion or is it a necessity to? Is he so caught up in the very "things" in which he creates that the machinery of his mak...

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... materials into an object. In the process, the laborer adds something to the raw materials so the object is worth more than the original raw material. What the laborer adds is called "surplus value" in Marxist theory. The extra in price comes from the surplus value added by the laborer, but it's owned by the capitalist, the factory owner gets the profit for selling the object, and the laborer gets only the cost of his/her reproduction ... either the economic base or other ideology, but it works on existing ideologies and transforms them, giving these ideologies new shape and structure (Ma...

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... of capitalist economy and his theories of historical materialism, the class struggle, and surplus value have become the basis of modern socialist doctrine. Marx argued that the economic part of any society is the most fundamental aspect of that society. The social, cultural and political sectors of a society are driven by the economic relations within society. All societies must produce their means ... profit led capitalists to adopt labour-saving machinery, creating a 'reserve army of the unemployed'. Those would eventually rise up and seize the means of production. Capitalism would the...

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... forms of ownership that Marx talks about in The German Ideology. Private property is however, the last form of ownership before communism comes into being. "Division of labour and private property are, moreover, identical expressions - (The German Ideology, pp.160). Division of labour is termed "specialization- by Marx. This specialization causes "stupefication- in the working class. Essentially, Marx believes that each individual ... class. Smith believes that division of labour will lead to universal opulence. In theory, Smith feels that division of labour is healthy for the entire s...

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... against what they deemed to be a "Bolshevik dictatorship". Opposition to the regime included enemy socialists (Mensheviks and SR's), Tsarist generals (such as Denikin, Yudenich, and Kolchak), separatist nations, and foreign powers; all rose up in arms against the central administration of the Bolsheviks. By the middle of 1918 these various groups held more than two-thirds of Russian ... were brought under state control. Free retail trade was prohibited, and the government began a fierce and determined campaign of grain requisitioning. All of these responses aimed to keep the army suppli...

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... analyse Lenin's role in regards to the achievements attained by the Bolshevik's. By the start of 1917, the Tsarist rule was confronting intense issues, mainly due to his naive autocracy, "The fundamental cause of the Russian revolution was the incompatibility of the Tsarist state, with the demands of the modern state"1; the peasants were requesting land; the proletariat needed higher wages and better working conditions; the bourgeoisie needed political changes to make Russia ... , Lenin's authority was crucial in implementing social changes amid the Bolshevik consolidation of power. Prio...

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... class, common people or lower class. According to Marx and Engels, the proletariats will eventually rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie. The final stage of political evolution is Communism. In Marx' model, the feudal state is overthrown by the rise of the bourgeoisie, which is the beginning of Capitalism. Capitalism is then overthrown by the rise of the proletariat, which begins the Socialist stage which is a precondition for Communism. Each stage must ... is no money or private property. All goods are free to be consumed by anyone that needs them. The final stage of Communism is achi...

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... this created. The lack of action from the Tsar paved the way for political opposition such as the Social Revolutionists and Social Democrats that quickly gained support of millions of peasants by promising land to the people. The unpopularity of the Tsar was exacerbated by the humiliation in the Russo-Japanese war, and ultimately the spark that started the active part of the Revolution was the massacre at Bloody Sunday. The Tsar's leadership was the root and ... foundation of almost all of the problems that culminated in the 1905 Revolution. Tsar Nicholas II was not a strong and ... ...

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... the individual factory contradicts the anarchy of production in "society as a whole " (299). This, in turn is a conflict that arises from the fundamental contradiction present in the concept of capitalism. Moreover, Engels have argued that "the mode of production rebels against the mode of exchange; the productive forces rebel against the mode of production, which they have outgrown"" (302). The idea that the mode of exchange is being rebelled against by the ... mode of production explains the chaos ... ). He argues, "Anarchy in social production is replaced by conscious organization on...

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