1. Comparing two classical sociological theories as to why soci
He saw "socialism- as being a pacific term veering more towards Utopian ideas, while "communism- was a more militant word, implying the revolutionary concept of the abolition of private property, echoed by the Parisian Commune back in 1793. ... Here Lenin further supports the idea that matter is primary, using origins of sensations as examples. ...
In order to answer this question adequately it will be necessary to identify what the Marxist historians feel were the causes of the French Revolution. In doing so I will be able to deduce what factors of the causes can be related to a Marxist perspective. I will also look at and discuss the variou...
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf...in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another..." ... According to Anthony Giddens, "the expropriation of large numbers of peasants from their means of production - a process upon which Marx lays great stress in discussing the origins of capitalism - does not lead to the development of capitalist production, but instead to a system based on slavery, which eventually disintegrates from within" (Giddens, Capitalism, 1971: 29). ...
To support my claim, I am using the reference of Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads when he states, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquillity" (Wordsworth 34). ... Bakhtin discusses these terms as "a word is always addressed to someone and anticipates, can generate, a response, anticipates an answer. ...