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Materialistic Philosophy Epicureanism

Epicureanism propounded a lifestyle...

Human Nature and Karl Marx's 'The Communist Manifesto'

In five pages this paper examines historical materialism and alienation within the context of 'The Communist Manifesto' and argues...

Political Economy Critiqued in Das Kapital by Karl Marx

his wild behavior of drinking and dueling led his father to transfer him to a more austere environment at the University of Berlin...

Overview of Historical Materialism

In six pages this paper considers historical materialism according to Engels and Marx in this philosophical overview. Eight sourc...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

Reasons for the Failure of Communism

due to implementation, and not that the ideal has failed, is something that is hard to prove. After all, it seems that it is easy ...

Capitalism and its Destruction

are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative." It does seem to be the case that for example the Republican party in the Unit...

Student Questions on Theory and History Answered

A paper consisting of ten pages and 3 sections answers various questions on French history, Karl Marx, and Jean Paul Sartre's hist...

'Science' of Marxism

much within the context of Marxs argument that is related to science. His emphasis on technology as well as his theory of historic...

History and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

It is further rather specific in that it notes particular parts of history which ultimately culminates in a state of communism (19...

Theory in International Relations and Marxism

ideas are not simply an alternative vision of the nature of international relations and world politics. They also present a wider ...

State Power and the Wrongness of Karl Marx's Assumption

that some have criticized as being associated with communist or socialist types of rule and Republicans want smaller government bu...

Materialism and Manhood in Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

Idea of Manhood). And, unfortunately part of his belief in relationship to being a man involves the belief that he must be incredi...

Our Kind by Marvin Harris

an agricultural standpoint, it makes perfect sense. The farmer who slaughters and eats his cattle, including his oxen, cannot plow...

Questions on Religion Answered

defined by the functional role of that state, rather than by proposed intrinsic features of that state. As this demonstrates, neit...

Life and Concepts of Karl Marx

that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...

Communism and Karl Marx

In four pages this paper examines historical materialism in this discussion of Karl Marx's perspective of communism and its diffic...

Did Aristotle Value Politics Less Than Materialism and Feelings?

law, and politics" (Anonymous, 2001). According to Aristotelian conjecture, those who compromise their political morality do so i...

Beck, Wright, Sowell, Berger, and Courtwright Idea Connection

attitudes and our approaches to society. With this simple illustration of Courtwrights work in mind we present similar ideas found...

Materialism: Sen and Sand

does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

Walter Benjamin, Historical Materialism and "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"

because of his insistence on seeing everything from the Marxist perspective. But perhaps most important in a discussion of the fi...

Capitalism in the United States

Such action will surely prove destabilizing. American capitalism impacts consumerism and materialism in another way, by lulling A...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Materialism

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

Sociologist Karl Marx's Life and Theories

of Christianity, and went to school. He would later have nothing to do with religion, even coining the phrase related to the idea ...

Jealousy and Materialism in Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'

a man who likes his possessions, being materialistic. It is almost as though we hear him telling us how he commissioned the most f...

Religion According to Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

The left wing, also known as Young Hegelians, emphasized the analysis of contradictions (Kamenka, 1983). The left looked at cont...

Accurate History Model of the Historical Materialism Developed by Karl Marx

everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have ...

Buddhism, Western Culture, Consumerism And Disharmony

notes how this continual desire to control keeps people anxious and powerless to their own misery, which is exactly why so many pe...