Also, there would be far more steady jobs available. In a capitalist economy, the most secure jobs are usually from the largest, wealthiest corporations, and some businesses obviously do not succeed, leaving many people unemployed with no source of income. If the government acted as one singular corporation in charge of all job opportunities, theoretically, there should be no unemployment because there are always industries that simply cannot have enough people contributing. ... Even some Americans who work full time jobs after acquiring a degree cannot support their families. Karl Marx identi...

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Reading their book, Communist Manifesto, you'd think that these two gentlemen were born to educate everyone about communism. ... Even more significant, Moses Hess is also the inspiration for Engel's book The Condition of the Working Class in England. ... This was the first book with an outcry against the way the "common workers- were being treated in England, and was seen as an outrage. ... Engels' book, Conditions of the Working Class in England was like a shot heard around the world. ... But after Engels continued to write the second and then the third edition of the bo...

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In their next work, they demonstrated their materialistic conception of history but the book found no publisher and "remained unknown during its author's lifetimes." ... *From 1850 to 1864, Marx lived in poverty and "spiritual pain," only taking a job once. ... His only other source of money was his job as the European correspondent for The New York Tribune, writing editorials and columns analyzing everything in the "political universe." Marx published his first book on economic theory in 1859, called A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. ...

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Due to their leftist ideas, they were clearly not in Hitler's good book and as a result, Hitler's Nazi regime arrested thousands of communists during the Reichstag Fire. ... This helped him gain a lot of mileage on the path to winning over the masses, as millions of formerly unemployed people were finding jobs in the work programs implemented by the Nazis and more significantly, in the ever-expanding car industry. ...

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A major reason for the rise in economy of China had to do with the ownership, "The reforms also gave greater room for private ownership of production, and these privately held businesses created jobs, developed much-wanted consumer products, earned important hard currency through foreign trade, paid state taxes, and gave the national economy a flexibility and resiliency that it did not have before," (Khan and Hu). ... A majority of the middle class would like to see political reform to be similar to western standards, however the people are satisfied with the socialist rule due to...

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There are many definitions of what exactly makes up the state, Ralph Miliband in his book, "The State in Capitalist Society" defines the state as consisting of the following institutions: Parliamentary assemblies local government police military judiciary civil service (bureaucracy) cabinet - leading politicians Most scholars and politicians would agree with this definition of the state although some might also add institutions such as the education system and sections of the media in certain countries, such as the BBC in Britain. ... In the past it could be said that the sate...

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