What does one mean by alienation? ... What needs to be done is to transform the working class in itself, to a working class for itself. ... (Communist Manifesto, p.46) In conclusion, communism is an idealists" utopian dream. ... Through dialectical processing, Marx was able to synthesize a theory of a classless society. ... Until society implements Marx theory, we will always be "chained" in some form or another and talos will always be a utopian dream....

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In history human societies have mainly been organized according to complex class hierarchies consisting of many members. ... As Marx concludes, "What the Bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. ... They believed that these stages lead up to a Utopian endpoint, after which there will be no more change, an end to history. ... Ultimately he portrays that the triumph of the proletariat and the creation of a classless society, is, then, the Utopian end of history toward which all previous historical events are directed. ... It is suspicious that Marx claims to be s...

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Moreover, as we have seen, the pigs have a different lifestyle from the other animals.They live in luxury and enjoy the benefits of the society they help to control. It is here, where Orwell expresses the inequality and true hypocrisy of communism and even criticizes "Marx's over-simplified view of a socialist, "utopian" society."" ... What is more, Boxer, together with Clover are used to represent the proletariat in the Russian society. ...

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This unit has allowed us to explore the ideals intellectuals and artists contrived from their observations while living in societies that were less than utopian. ... "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and "Declaration of the Rights of Women" pleaded the government to allow all men and women, despite their class and ownership, the right to take part in what affected them through the government. ... Nor did the Russians follow Marx when they appointed leaders who would suck the power and money from the whole society rather than making sure the society was prospering. The results were a diminishi...

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Their leader Napoleon raves on about making the farm a fair and comfortable place, yet he's gradually turned the farm into a dystopian society. ... After breaking a commandment Napoleon has the rules changed, on the wall, so that what he does is justified. ... It encourages kids to support the communist society. ... It takes away your rights and redistributes what you've worked hard for. ... Utopian socialism encourages being peaceful. ...

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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. ... In this early stage of communism, there was no private property, no classes or privileged elite and what we now know as the family. ... From this barbarism period emerged the slave society. The slave society actually had its roots in the barbarism society. ... Thus the world has witnessed the finished circle, the final product of our society, a co...

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What makes history knowledgeable is that its essence is Mind, and what produces history is the continuous struggle of Mind to realize itself in the perfect form" (Stumpf 365). ... Hegal sees the real world as coming from the divine, whereas Feuerbach sees the divine as an illusion of what is truly real. ... Society no longer needed the skilled worker. ... A perfect society. ... First, a socialist society can't work. ...

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What are the differing views on this ideology, and more importantly how are they relevant to today's society? ... First, European history professor and author Carl Landauer expresses the idea that anarchism is simply a utopian way of thinking. In his work European Socialism, Landauer claims government is a "lesser evil" than a society without "repressive force.... A political philosophy that believes everyone should be allowed to do what ever he wants is by its nature a very unstable philosophy. ... Perhaps the world is just not ready for anarchy, or perhaps anarchists sim...

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Marx may have had a slightly different idea of what exactly the study of dialectics was, but as I pointed out so did both Plato and Aristotle. ... Wealth was the internal struggle as he saw it, because it determined the way the people would act, and thus what government they would choose to rule. ... They all carried the same basic idea endorsed by their founding father, Lenin, who put out documents saying that third world countries could revolt and still end up with a wonderful utopian government. ... They saw the USSR as the only example of what communism accomplished, and it was bad. .....

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The American Dream is believed to be blind to race, sex, or socio-economic status and at a first glance, seems to be almost Utopian. ... Smith believed that the biggest threat to economic threat was government intervention, telling people what to do would only damage the works. ... Marx believed there is no such thing as a "laissez-faire " capitalist society. ... In today's society, the top upper class possesses about ninety-five percent of the total wealth. ... Marx predicted what will happen over time in a capitalist nation; the two groups in Smith's theory, the buyer gets poorer ...

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Who knows what might happen to the money in the bank? ... Basically what Marx meant here, is that there is always improvement and progress agriculturally, and that agriculture and farming should be very important. ... First of all, a Utopian society is impossible and it is just a dream by Thomas Moore. To think that one day we would reach Utopia is ridiculous, part of human life is conflicts, or what would life be, the Brady Bunch. ... What do they earn in a communist society-the right to share their life and existence with the rest of the nation? ...

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Due to the problems caused by alienation and exploitation, Marx introduced the idea of socialism, that which he believed was a society that served the individual needs of man. ... Socialism: Alienation is one of the central concepts in Marx's philosophy, providing an analysis of what is perceived to be an essential feature of the capitalist way of production and how it relates to humans. ... Marx was not the first philosopher that suggested socialism but he did differ from other philosophers by moving away from the unrealistic expectations of a utopian civilization and the desire and a...

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