Capitalism best describes the contemporary economic and political systems in the world. These systems are characterized by private enterprise, that is, a country's economy is controlled by individuals whose aim is to make profits. Such private enterprises can only thrive where government policies pr...
Marx vs. Weber Karl Marx and Max Weber, both social scientists, devoted much of their work to the defining of capitalism through understanding its creation, causes, workings, and destiny. In their evaluations of capitalism they arrive at two distinct conclusion caused by similar and distinctly dif...
Have you noticed that communism, a political system created in the 1840's by Karl Marx, has started to die down? It used to be a global political system, but now it remains in evident in only 5 countries. Or does it? Some of these 5 countries are in terrible economic states. Poverty is through th...
"Imagine, my dear friend, if you can," Tocqueville wrote back to France, "a society formed of all the nations of the world people having different languages, beliefs, opinions: in a word, a society without roots, without memories, without prejudices, without routines, without common ideas, without a national character, yet a hundred times happier than our own." ...
Henry Hudson's discovery of high quality furs in New Netherlands, in the early 1600's, directly influenced merchants' ideals of capitalism in North America. Following Adrian Block's, the commander of the Tijger, disclosure of the land and the quality furs discovered, a charter was issued to merchan...
War is what we use to justify protecting our countries' ways of life. It's glorious, because each time we reduce our enemies to a pile of ash, we reveal to the world all the potential wrongdoings and injustices that could have been dealt to us if we had kept them around. War also a phenomenal source...
