We know communism did not work, because of one main reason: it defies human nature and human rights. ... Marx obviously does not understand human nature. 9. ... Marx clearly did not understand human nature and the rights that were given to humans when they were born. ... Marx's whole manifesto shows a man who does not know a thing about human nature and any man who followed him either also did not have a clue about human nature, or was very selfish and wanted to become dictator of all the masses. ... The Manifesto has inspired much corruption, but at the same time has also helped us, but ...

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Work is the process of man relating to nature, the creativity of man through nature and also through his own being. ... Yes, these things are useless and would not work if human beings don't exist. ... Nature without man is without use. Nature does not make any sense without man.... Man without nature should still be man but nature without man should be nothing and pointless. ...

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Marx called this "exploitation", this also alienated humans from "species being" by this he meant that the workers were denied any possibility of their natural potential for creativity. ... He makes particular reference to how the bourgeoisie has in a sense ruined the pure nature of man. ... For Weber, the aim of sociology was to achieve a subjective understanding of human action. He believed that studying humans in society was the only way to truly understand their motives and tendencies. ...

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This leads to estrangement from fellow human beings and estrangement from one's essential human nature. ... Abraham showed that one can be forced to disregard ethics if God commands it, which is the paradoxical nature of religion. He saw that God can accomplish what to the human mind is absurd, and by having faith in the absurd, one can recover what was lost. ... Instead of seeing scientific knowledge as the means of human redemption, he regarded it as the greatest obstacle to redemption. ... Instead of seeking to make God and Christian faith perfectly intelligible he sought to emphasize ...

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Commodities are simply objects that satisfy human needs and wants. ... "The species-character of man is his consciousness of being in a practical-organic relationship with the totality of nature. ... " (Santilli, 1973) For human beings, work amounts to a life purpose. The difference between humans and animals is unlike animals, humans have a consciousness and a will. ... Socialism for Marx meant a social order to permit man to feel recognized for his work, overcoming the unpleasant expectations of labor, humanization of nature and allowing man to no longer feel like strangers a...

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Indeed, it also refers to the way in which human nature works and how we go through phases of power. ... This idea conveys the way in which human nature takes it course and also shows the vicious cycle that a revolution such as the Russian one entails. ... It is evident that Napoleons" characteristics represent the human errors of any revolution. Orwell believed that Socialism was a good ideal but one which could never be successful due to the manner in which human beings behave within a society. ...

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One thing that I believe both Marx and Weber didn't look at is the fact that whatever the basis for our means of producing life's necessities, whether it be capitalism or communism, is that we are by nature animals that are driven to survive. We are driven by our base nature to acquire what ever it is that we need to survive and pass on our genes to the next generation. The fear of death, the fear of not finding a mate, the fear of change, the fear of not having what is wanted or needed are strong forces which I believe, unless something drastic happens to change the human mindset,...

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Because of his uncompromising nature, he had few friends and in turn was devoted to his children and wife. ... It's in a human's nature to fancy success and wealth, which Marx had experienced first hand through his father. ... Marx's ideologies are, realistically, unimplementable in a general human society because of man's constant thrive for power and achievement, and in Marx's system this general human hunger has to be tamed. ... Contrary to the belief of Hegel which is, if man does not posses a fear for a stronger man, he will cultivate a savage like nature from ...

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Interpretations of this message have varied since the initial performance of King Lear in 1606 and are continually adapting to changes within society and human development in general. ... As the Elizabethans saw it, violations of nature and abdication of power amounted to one thing; man, through aspiring too high - as Lear did - would tumble off his place in the divine order and become like an animal. ... The stage was stripped of all natural elements, even human emotion, to form a bleak and barren vision of negation. ... In contrast with his father, Edmond believes that nature is a malign for...

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They both have an interesting vision on the effect capitalism will have on the human spirit. ... According to Marx "free, conscious activity" is man's true nature but it is suppressed because the division of labor has separated him from his freedom of creativity. ... Weber describes this entity as an iron cage, which we must serve separating us, like Marx believed, from our true nature as free and creative beings. ... Weber was uncertain about the end of capitalism but for the most part he believed the nature of capitalism has become preordained knowledge and would continue because its...

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He joined a group of young men, the Doctors Club, who believed that the key to understanding human nature and history was in Hegal's approach to philosophy. ... In order for it to work you must be able to change human character. Humans by nature are greedy and ambitious. As long as humans retain these two traits socialism will never work. ...

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Marxism, or scientific socialism is the name given to the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that provides the theoretical basis for the struggle of the working class to reach the higher form of human society, which is socialism. ... Idealism deals with the concept that a divine spirit created every material thing, and that human action is spurred from abstract thoughts, not from their material needs. Materialism however deals, with the opposite of idealism, that the material world is real and that nature and matter are primary. ... Human society started with a tribal communist system ...

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Marxism and Economic Theory Human relationships have always been dynamic. Change and adaptability have gone hand in hand with the passage of time for human society. ... A government must be dynamic in its nature reflecting the change in society. ... Using history, logic and the dynamic nature of humankind as guidelines, Carl Marx attempts to map out a sequence of events which will eventually lead to utopia (anarchy). ...

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Commodities are defined as an object outside of us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another (Miliband, R. 243). ... Marx argued that what commodities all have in common is the fact that they are all products of human labor. It is human labor that has created them and it is the amount of human labor that goes into them that determines value. ...

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George Orwell's Animal Farm depicts the uprising of animals on Manor Farm. In the beginning of the book, the animals all revolt to drive Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, away. This was a revolution for the animals. I predict that their situation will change as a result of greed from certain anima...

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Such a system of ownership is both collective and individual in nature. ... The personally empowering and cooperative nature of socialist ownership underpins similar changes in other aspects of life. Socialism means far healthier individuals and human relationships. ...

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These focus on the nature of literature and present some methods to analyze those. ... This comparison of etherized patient to the sky makes it seem as if the nature has been polluted and helpless. ... Furthermore, he states "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floor of silent seas" it is a clear example of low self-esteem because he wants to be a sea creature rather than a human being, the reason behind is that, a sea creature basically has an stress-free less complicated life....

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This story of human survival highlights the themes of gender and class among many others that introduced the exploration of epic theatre. ... Finally there is human's coexistence with the land and nature that deals with perhaps the most challenging issue in the play, the drowning of Fish Lamb. ...

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The beginning of this speech is as follows: Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? ... (Orwell 28) The animals plan and then act out their rebellion successfully, renaming the farm Animal Farm instead of the former Manor Farm, which to the animal represented the evils of human beings. ... If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. ...

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Soon enough the scene takes us to a memory of the grandson with the grandfather in which they both go to crawfish hunting were the grandfather says to him to him that the fact that the crawfish don`t know that someone will pick them up teaches them a lesson to human nature. ... In "Buying Lenin", Penkov explores the idea that blood is thicker than the ocean and that ideologies are malleable in the face of the enduring need for human connection and understanding. ...

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As well as his ideologies of false consciousness, his belief of capitalisms need for reform, inequality and exploitation of the working classes could be addressed and abolished, that society is not defined by that of natural rights, but defined by the nature of our class status. ... We as humans are imperfect individuals, and selfishly stride towards justifying our personal goals, collaborating with others only when knowing it will strengthen our own grip. ...

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Early Capitalism and Economic Thinking Throughout the ages societies have struggled to find the perfect economic system. While economists may still be searching, countries like the U.S. have settled for capitalism. However, in the mid-1800s, when capitalism was still struggling to earn its wings,...

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While Smith and Marx supported completely different approaches to achieve these ends, neither of their suggested systems proved to be totally infallible.Adam Smith believed that people are by nature selfish. ... Human beings do not care about other but will benefit others by their own contribution to the economy. ...

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Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche was born approximately 10:00am on October 15, 1844 in the rural farmland named RÖcken bei Lutzen. Friedrich Nietzsche was named after Prussian King, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. He was only four years old when his father died from brain alignment and another tr...

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Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a middle-class home in Trier on the river Moselle in Germany on May 5, 1818. Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary. Without a doubt, he is the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Though many scholars co...

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