In the Communist manifesto, Karl Marx analyzed society and shows its readers how social inequalities are created. Marx believed that communism would create a classless society, give freedom, and equality in the social and economic status of the people. Marx idea of communism is far from being achieved in many countries. However, Marx also comments that capitalism, which undoubtedly does exist, has not been proven false. As a result capitalism exploit's the working class, women are being badly treated, and it has created a bad quality of life for the proletarian family. In the novel The Jungle, Sinclair is able to prove Marx perspectives through Jurgis and his family and show how capitalism has affected their lives. .
Marx explains that under capitalism, proletarians are the class of modern wage laborers who have no means of production of their own. They are being exploited and even transformed into commodities for the advantage of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie according to Marx are "the class of modern capitalist owners of the means of production and employers of wage labor"(79). The Bourgeoisie has greater power that gives them the ability to humiliate the working class by keeping them oppress and allowing them to work in bad conditions. For example Jurgis who worked long hours, found himself still not being able to prosper and gain success in his work. Jurgis's father worked in bad conditions all his life. Ultimately these working conditions killed him, he never reached middle class status. In Sinclair's novel we are able to shoe Marx's idea that workers were used as commodities and that the bourgeois only lived by their investments. In Packington, Durham who had power according to Sinclair "was trying to make as much money out of it as he could, and did not care in the least how he did it it was the men who had to do all the dirty jobs"(63). Men faced the humiliation and cruel conditions just to earn as Marx supports Sinclair "the average price of wage labor is the minimum wage, that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite to keep the labores in bare existence as a laborer (68-69).
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In this paper I will try to explain the puzzle of whether individuals are products of society or society is a product of individuals. ... Individuals as Product of Society Society is the unconscious collective of the morals and values of individuals that formed that society, but society is only a word. ... Yet society has the ability to change the individual based on previous individuals influence on society. ... For society to persevere, society must perpetuate its values to further too present and future generation. ... I have shown that Sumer was the beginning of society and that soci...
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he Open Society The concept of an open society is a term first employed by Sir Karl Popper in his 1950 book the Open Society and Its Enemies. ... There are many reasons for the suggestion that an open society is a true and fair society. ... Not just for the individual but for the society as a whole. ... Of course oppression is the largest issue for an open society. ... Of course, in this case, we would not be able to look at the views of the society critically and in such a society, cruel and false beliefs can spread rapidly. ...
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It seems as though status is a main issue to teens and society. The need to feel accepted by others in order to be the center of attention, and that need to be distinguished greatly from everyone else is a strong force that exposes itself to nearly all people in society whether or not your an adult in society or a teen in highschool. ... Status was an all-time high in society especially where I had lived. ... There shouldn't be a need to have social status/popularity in society, there may be a few benefits, but it never lasts for long. ... Society's conformity influences the act...
Introduction The Australian society has five major types of law within it. ... Criminal laws exist so that the people within a society can feel safe and protected, although crimes are increasing more and more every day, especially in young people. A crime is a wrong that is commited against a society, society nowadays has a bnch of rules which should be followed so everything can function efficiently and effectively. ...
The Puritan Society was a very restrictive, repressive, and socially constrictive one. Every member of the society had a strict role to fill. Any one who fell outside of their appropriate role in society was shunned, insulted, exiled, or tortured to death. The Puritan Society was stratified by many different factors. ...
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