Almost all of the characters in the story belong to either the del Valle-Trueba family, or else to the Garcia family. ... The blood lines of the Trueba and Garcia families cross repeatedly, however Esteban Trueba works hard to assure that their family names do not mix. ... The Trueba women, as well as Jaime, also support this cause. ... The Candidate who had barely won the presidency never gained majority support within Chile. ... Alba in the end of the novel suffers many tortures however, she is also supported by a community of women prisoners. ...

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The bourgeoisie system of class and private property has ruined family relationships. ... While the child of a laborer is working twelve hour days in sweat shops trying to help support the family, in some cases be the only income to a family. In other cases laborers are working their sweat, blood and tears off to support their family's, trying to give what the bourgeoisie has. "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation"(476). ... Family's could be one again, with out struggling for money. ...

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Low wages led families to starvation, around the clock work schedules, child labor, and prostitution, all to meet the minimum to provide for their families. ... Jurgis was a man of family, and he would always fear not being able to support his family, so he was relieved by the money he was making at meat district. ... Jurgis began to feel a sense of confinement and anxiety, after leaving his family to support themselves on their own while he rests and heals. ... The structure repeatedly has an incline of good deal for the family, and then it all becomes a wreck for the family. ... Jurgis liv...

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Sinclair had actually intended the novel to sympathize the working class and to build support for the Socialist movement, which he was an avid member of. ... Jurgis Rudkis and Ona, his soon to be wife, come to Chicago with their family to start a better life in America. ... To keep up with all the payments, every family member has to get a job. ... After months of working, the family is struggling to survive through the horrible working conditions. ... After being put in jail and losing Ona and Antanas, Jurgis flees the countryside and leaves the family behind. ...

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Jurgis and his family took a tour of Packingtown. ... But, misfortune falls upon the family again. ... The rest of the family is stricken with numerous illnesses. ... He receives a job in the stockyards for his support of a Republican candidate, Scully. ... The political corruptions that supported American capitalism are as corrupt as the businesses. ...

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While he was growing up, his family was very poor because of his father's failing career in sales, resulting in his inability to support his family. ... Once his family moved to New York, Upton was able to attend school. ... But no matter what the trial, Jurgis focuses on supporting his family, especially his newborn son Antanas, and believes they can be successful by honest hard work. ... The working men don't care about cleanliness or health, all they care about is making enough money to support themselves and their family. ... So the family is still functioning, but barely. ...

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In this way, family is unwanted because they cost more. ... Everyone in the family had to work. They had to help support the family. The families lived in wretched, polluted homes. ... The family was never united. ...

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It does provide many historical events in vivid descriptions which supported the contrasts between capitalist views and socialist reforms. ... Jurgis joins Ona, Ona's family, and his family to journey to America. ... He starts planning for his family's future. ... His family was poor. ... Maybe not every family had all of the hardships that this one family had, but these kinds of disasters were going on all across America. ...

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He left Lithuania in hope of starting a family and a cordial Life. ... They live in Packington their first day the get jobs quite easily still supporting the idea that things are going well. ... Jurgis and his family expierienced this world of unjustice drastically. ... During his time recovering he sees that everything is coming apart and him and his family might not make it. ... Stanislovas visits him in jail to get money and tell him of the news of the family all is bad. ...

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Engels was able to express his own beliefs at an earlier age coming from a family with moderately liberal political views. Although his family did remain pronounced in the Protestant faith that did not stop Engels from venturing out and developing his own beliefs that were not necessarily embraced by the Protestant faith. ... Hess is the man accredited with bringing Engels to England to function again in business (in the Engels family business) because according to Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 6, page 122, it was Hess who stressed to Engels, "The role that England, with its advanced industr...

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However, in 1941, Stalin discontinued his Jewish intolerance and supported the formation of the Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC) in 1942, contradicting practiced Stalinism and amending his previously unquestionable policy. Even after WWII, Stalin collaborated with the United States and supported the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine. ... Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... "The peasant loathed the exploitation...

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However, in 1941, Stalin discontinued his Jewish intolerance and supported the formation of the Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC) in 1942, contradicting practiced Stalinism and amending his previously unquestionable policy. Even after WWII, Stalin collaborated with the United States and supported the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine. ... Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... "The peasant loathed the exploitation...

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He was born into a rich family. ... When he did that the upper class started to withdraw their support from Marx and his newspaper. ... Even though he was born into a rich family he lived and died a pauper. His family hardley had enough food to survive and two of his children died "a scarifice to bourgeois misery." ...

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Supported by socialists and union members, it grew in power and membership. ... Families ate more varied diets, lived in better homes, and dressed in inexpensive, mass-produced clothing. ... Change was good, but for Karl Marx, the new improvements and ideas did not help support his theory of the working class beginning a world revolution at all. ...

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As industrialization spread,large numbers of peasants who used to support themselves by working the land moved to the expanding cities and helped to urban based industrial working class,which also referred proletariat.Marx predicted that inequalities of capitalism would become so extreme that workers would eventually revolt,which leads to the collapse of capitalism and this would be replaced by communism.Marx believed that communism is more equitable system than capitalism.There would be no classes,no divisions between the rich and poor. ... This relationship within the family is the base of s...

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Marx also considers labor as a forced means of production for substinence of the worker and his family. ... The person physically and mentally drains himself from achieving any dreams in order to maintain a life for his family. ... Marx's circular reasoning does not allow for great criticism because each critique slowly evolves to support his point. ...

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While more American generations have been trained to be independent, more young people from Asian countries such as Vietnam and China have been more dependent on traditional family values by their parents. ... For example, in Asian countries, although parents tend to make decisions for their children and impose traditional rules on their sons and daughters, when they get older, they do not want to receive any supports form their children and dependent on them. ...

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When Louis XVI came to the throne his extravagant lifestyle, along with his support for the Americans during the War of Independence, increased the debt even further. Several policies introduced to try and reduce the debt failed, and following the Assembly of Notables the King failed to gain the support of the nobles, which started to limit his ability to rule as an absolute monarch. Louis XVI had previously wanted to reform the tax system, which would include members of the first and second estate pay some taxes; therefore it is unsurprising that when asking for the support it was not forthco...

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While Marija is trying to support the family without Jurgis, she is led to a life of prostitution, being the only obtainable job for her at the time. ... Soon Marija is struck with the reality that she cannot support her family due to the capitalist mind set in Chicago. ... With socialism, the big business would be obsolete; instead families or individuals would run regulated versions of the big businesses. ... In addition, programs like these along with federal and private scholarship foundations have opened up many doors for the children of today to further their education without putting e...

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Pew Research Center found that in 2013, the "Median net worth of upper-income families was 6.6 times greater than that of middle-income families.... Even some Americans who work full time jobs after acquiring a degree cannot support their families. ...

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The recent failure of communism in the Soviet Union supports how Marx's vision is not proven. ... (pg. 481-482) It is this argument that Marx makes in supporting his ultimate vision for society and the proletariat. ... In achieving this goal, the proletariat will destroy all remnants of bourgeoisie culture including family, religion, and morality. ... Marx announces the communist intention to "everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things" (pg. 120). ...

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For example, rather than controlling the number of state-owned enterprises destroyed by market economy implementations, a complete release of such enterprises from any government support or authority might result in a massive collapse of the industrial sector and wide scale unemployment. ... Prospects of "wealth- in towns or cities drive them to China's coastlines where they hope to earn enough to provide for their families and one day return to the countryside. ... The leaders of the movement are young, but they are groping towards an independent workers movement, one step of which wi...

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Karl Marx saw many problems with the capitalist system. He tried to identify and remedy the problems of capitalism through his creation of Marxism. He felt that capitalism benefited the owners of the means of production, not the worker. Karl Marx describes capitalists as people w...

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They also like having their own family contrary to whatever Marx says about have one big universal family because the only point of a family is for reproduction. ... He was a member of the Bourgeoisie in Germany (mainly because his good friends Engles supported him) who barely worked a day in his life except a job as a journalist for very little of his life. ...

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Another example of solidarity support between the GDR and SRV was the ''Vietnam-Aktion'' of the 1960s. ... This is supported by the biography of both authors: the first author, Eva-Maria Elsner, was an university lecturer for political economics at Rostock and lived in the former GDR, so she has an intimate knowledge of political events of the time. ...

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