While looking at the way Hobbes' constructs his theories, we can look at the question of whether or not his bourgeois theories are a means for a sustainable and prosperous society. ... How can a society that has no moderation imposed upon its citizens and allows for this type of relentless competition possibly survive? ... When we look at Hobbes' laws with moderation in mind, we can see that this approach shows us a much more civilized bourgeois society in which we are not always at war with one another, but we are creating a society where those who have power are not constantly th...

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Foucault poses this question to refer to the problematic subjectivity of the modern man, as being inevitably affected by the great influence and omnipresence of ideology. ... With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... Foucault uses this model a...

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