The current labour party is a product of this movement of working through the political system to equalize society. ... Political conditions were not at their greatest, though there was more the government could have done for the communities. ... All this corruption wasn't getting better with corruption involved in political conditions. ... In result, this brought the political conditions to an all time low. ... Depressions and recessions led to cyclical employment, style and weather caused seasonal employment, and machines replacing humans brought str...

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Like Marx argues, due to the economic recession, the government of Greece increased bailout programs and tax programs to keep their political power and to hide economic and political errors. ... These conflicts are related to political conflicts because they can change policies or social systems. ... The necessary consequence of this was political centralization.... With machinery developments, capitalism leads to labor divisions and workers become like machine appendages who work for the bourgeoisie (Marx and Engels 2000:8). ... In Modern Times, a Charles Chaplin movie, people are displayed a...

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The higher class people can get ahead in life because they have an in with the system, but the peasants will forever be stuck at their work on the machines in a packing plant. ... It is now when he becomes involved with politics. ... One critic writes, "The democratic institutions which might have provided a means of change have all been bought off by the "Machine." ... It helps move others forward in politics. ... Sinclair writes, "...it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust..." (317). ...

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In The Jungle, the main character named Jurgis sees that everyone who comes into contact with capitalism is either taken advantage of in every way possible, or becomes greedy, dishonest, and materialistic, both of which Jurgis had experienced first hand, seeing the deceitfulness used by the political machine in the packing yards of Chicago. ... Later in the novel, Jurgis becomes involved in the political machine. He becomes one of the henchmen for the political powers in the packing yards. ... Another theme used by Sinclair is that industrial capitalism is an efficient, impersonal killing ma...

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The decision to launch the Plans in 1928 was based on a combination of economic and political factors and a fear of foreign invasion. ... The USSR, though politically demoralised, was one of the world's great industrial powers ". ... Paragraph Two - Political The use of terror and Purges carried out by Stalin formed a central part of the Soviet regime in the 1930s, acting as a significant divisive force. Alongside this the Communist Party and political opponents, such as Kirov, were a minor driving force. ... A huge propaganda machine pushed the cult of Stalin into every corner of society...

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The extensive list of trials and tribulations that Jurgis was forced to encounter included hard labor, weather conditions in Chicago, family complications, and many more like, but most importantly facing, "...His own ignorance and the powerful forces of restrained capitalism and political corruption"(Sinclair,Vii). Ruckus's sad story highlights the many injustices and pitfalls of American political and social systems, and reflects Upton Sinclair's outlook on eradicating capitalism and eliminating its communal evils, with his socialist views. ... Socialism is a movement th...

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Marxism influenced China's Great Leap Forward economically, socially and politically, as well as developing Maoism. ... Background Marxism is a series of economical, social and political based ideologies that oppose capitalism. ... In terms of politics, Marxism has created socialism 6and evolved into communism7. ... Marxism influenced China's Great Leap Forward to a small extent in terms of social and political terms. Marx made economics the basis for all his critiques of society and politics. ...

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It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. ... Machines could produce faster then the skilled laborer and he became obsolete. ... Marx says "Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine" (Marx 43). ... The state is, similarly, an alienated form of political activity, embodying universal rights which are as ephemeral as is the idealized world of religion" (Giddens 5). ...

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This results from these 3 facts: each worker becomes increasingly dexterous in his specific task as time progresses, time is saved because the worker is not changing from one task to another, and as workers concentrate on one simple task they are more apt to develop machines that will make their job easier or do it for them (Smith 15). ... "The materialistic view of history" led Marx to believe that the government was only a "political ruling organ of the economic rulers." ...

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This could well be Orwell's attempt to criticise Stalin whom many consider to be someone who totally ignored Marx's political and social theory. ... He can be described as a manipulator and persuader and therefore is the symbol of the propaganda machine of the revolution. ...

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Collectivization would allow for optimum proficiency as machines would produce more produce then small farms, peasants not needed on the collectives could be sent to new industries and collectives would be easier for the party to supervise and control. ... The alliance was an agreement with Britain, France and America due to the attack from Germany and was accepted by the Soviets due to their fear of fascism and their need for common allies rather then their political aspirations and ideology. ...

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As well as having a great interest in the political economy he also went on to study sociology, interestingly he had acquired experience of social conditions during his travels through Europe. ... Marx described this class as being the main industrial workers, he also named them politically unimportant. ... Marx describes the workers as "slaves of the bourgeoisie class, enslaved by the machine". ... Throughout his life Weber took an active interest in Social and Political matters in Germany. ...

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