... ;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 is trying to tell us "practice what you preach". And "In Westminster Abbey" by John Betjeman hypocrisy is one of the main subjects. John Betjeman's poem "In Westminster Abbey" ... ; is set in the beginning of World War II in Great Britain. And it starts with a woman who seems to be from ... 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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... 's of Seeing, John Berger argues that original art wields uniqueness unachievable in any other form. He states, "No other kind of relic or text from the past can offer such a direct testimony about the world which surrounded other people at other times. In this respect images are more precise and richer than literature" (108). Berger's outlook upon art, which was shaped by years of ... schooling, teaching, and personal experience as both an artist and a critic, clashes with his Marxist desires for an equal society. Berger believes that "When we are prevented from seeing [art], we are bei...

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... workers as competition for 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 then be succeeded by a world without private property. John Maynard Keynes is best known for his classic book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money that was published in 1936. His ideas on ... the causes of unemployment revolutionized economic theory and profoundly altered government's involvement in the economy. The Classical tradition assumed that in ... ...

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... true Marxist idealism as Lenin died and Stalin gained control of the Central Committee. Idealism, wishing for a unified and industrialized Russia, was no longer regarded and instead realism took over, as Stalin no longer followed Marxist policies. In the movie Reds, John "Jack- Reed is another example of idealism being thrown away by realism. He wishes to create a Marxist society and preaches to workers ... the need to band together, revolting against the bourgeoisie. Yet Reed himself is of the upper class; he is not a blue-collar worker in any sense of ... the word, writing and observ...

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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 ... , much like the social classes (the workers obeying those with money). This educational structure ... ...

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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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... ). In pointing out specific details of the meat packing process, Sinclair lost the focus of the readers. The public concerned itself more with the unsanitary meat than with the evils of capitalism. As Sinclair states, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." At this point, the removal of capitalism seems irrelevant to the readers, and socialism is not even in the picture. Sinclair's audience seems more ... 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 ...

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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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... bookshops. Understanding this important piece of world literature however means understanding its protagonist Arthur Seaton. Arthur Seaton is 23 years old at the beginning of the novel and due to his youth pre-sented as someone who cares about nothing but his own fun and pleasure. Working all ... 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 n...

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... bookshops. Understanding this important piece of world literature however means understanding its protagonist Arthur Seaton. Arthur Seaton is 23 years old at the beginning of the novel and due to his youth pre-sented as someone who cares about nothing but his own fun and pleasure. Working all ... 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 n...

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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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... 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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... implemented, would change the lives of millions of people for generations. In the text, Marx emphasized the importance of ongoing class struggles and their historical consequences. Marx believed that human history was largely defined by the animosity between the working class and the governing class, with the latter in control of providing for the lower classes. He divided the classes into what he labeled the bourgeois and the proletarians. According to Marx ... , the bourgeois were direct descendants of a primitive society that had "not done away with class antagonisms ... ...

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... democracy. It was around this time that he began to attack another enemy, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Vladimir became convinced that "real change could be brought about only by and through the dictatorship of the proletariat." Lenin returned to Russia in November 1905 only to be hunted by the Tsarist police. He almost lost his life in December of 1907 fleeing across ... the ice from the Finnish mainland to a Finnish island where a ship carried him back into exile. This ... his plans for Russian revolution as non-Marxist and anti Marxist stating that a true Marxist revolut...

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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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... 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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... 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: ... . Consequently, future generations of these species will be better adapted for the new environment (Darwin 354-55). People of the late nineteenth-century adapted C...

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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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... 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 ... . These relations of production creates three classes according to Marx: the proletariat, capitalist, and bourgeoisie. These three classes are created w...

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... is understood to be one of many great Chinese experiments, a continuation of the "permanent revolution- that Mao upheld. The financial fragilities created by a growing public debt (particularly when one includes the debt owed to state-owned banks by state-owned enterprises), rising unemployment, and the difficulties in maintaining legitimacy based on traditional views of citizenship rights under "socialism- ... Restructuring the state owned enterprises is essential to the health of the Chinese economy, the success of the government and the status of the Communist Party. In this concept...

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