Essays Tagged: "class struggle"

The Door's influence on the 1960's

their parent's culture. Examples of this move for change and progress included politics, religion, class struggle, racial issues, and the Vietnam war, but the area in which this change was most visib ... that he met Raymond (Ray) Manzarek, who was also a student of the film school. Manzarek had learned classical piano as a child, although his personal tastes led him to playing blues on the organ. In 1 ...

(6 pages) 146 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

How Does Lewis explain the dull monotony or "universal similarity" reigning in American Life? How many cultures does America have? What is the source of American culture?

Lewis' Main Street, there are two cultures: urban and rural. The urbanites represent the capitalist class and rural people represent the working class. In Lewis' metaphors one can see evidence of both ... taphors one can see evidence of both class struggle between serf and lord and also the contemporary class struggle between working and capitalist classes. Carol observes that the farm folk treat Kenni ...

(3 pages) 102 0 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Chinese Economic Reform under Communist Rule

l Revolution which had had as their bases ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 'Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems ...

(18 pages) 486 1 4.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Turgenev Russian Literature "Fathers and Sons" Essay deals with the revolutionary ideas of the period and how they translate into everyday life.

f revolutionary Paris taught him the unpleasant rudiments of crowd psychology, and the logic of the class struggle. The reaction which followed the upheaval of 1848 intensified his disgust with the go ...

(8 pages) 114 0 3.9 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Marx Das Capital

s that economic forces determine all events. Marx was always well aware that it was not the working class but the middle class that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Social historians and ... ing path. Social historians and political scientists have researched all levels of society to find "class consciousness," but it was the entrepreneurial-merchant class that actually carried out the hi ...

(6 pages) 182 2 4.3 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Karl Marx The Co-Originator of Communism

At the league's request they authored the " Communist Manifesto," which outlines the theory of the class struggle, and of the revolutionary role of the proletariat. Due to his revolutionary activitie ...

(1 pages) 61 1 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Expository essay on The Communist Manifesto

the idea of historical development, the importance of the economic mode of production, the role of class struggle and the nature of social and political change. Among the topics they discussed was th ... was the development of the proletariat from a disorganized group of industrial workers to a unified class in opposition to the bourgeoisies.Marx and Engels saw the development of the proletariat as in ...

(3 pages) 113 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

The rise of commnism in russia.

Karl Marx and FriedrichEngels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism inwhich all class differences would disappear and humankind would livein harmony. Marx and Engels claimed to hav ... he feudal system had given way to capitalism, so in time capitalismwould give way to socialism. The class struggle of the future would bebetween the bourgeoisie, who were the capitalist employers, and ...

(8 pages) 77 0 1.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

The Rise of Communism in Russia.

Karl Marx and FriedrichEngels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism inwhich all class differences would disappear and humankind would livein harmony. Marx and Engels claimed to hav ... he feudal system had given way to capitalism, so in time capitalismwould give way to socialism. The class struggle of the future would bebetween the bourgeoisie, who were the capitalist employers, and ...

(8 pages) 99 3 4.4 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Analisis of Henry IV by William Shakespear.

speare does not leave out his usual twist and turns, side stories, and his underlying commentary on class struggle that brings to life a piece of history.The book focuses on two opposing characters, P ... important character in Henry IV Part 1 is John Falstaff. He represents all that it was to be lower class at that time in England. Shakespeare uses this character as a source of irony and resentment i ...

(4 pages) 52 0 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Communist politics in china and films relationship.

to the politics of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution with concrete examples of how class struggle continues under socialism and how communists can wage that struggle successfully by m ... cadres that they attacked. Breaking with Old Ideas show how Mao's program works and encourages low class peasants to do the same."[Breaking with Old Idea is about] a teacher whose spectacles and mann ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

Latin America.

ld capitalism and open the way to a system where only the proletariat holds the reins of power, the class struggle must be organised on an international scale and subject to the regulatory idea of the ... superseded more than a century ago. Like the old opposition workers parties, this tendency ignores class barriers and tries to place the proletarian movement within the old limits of bourgeois states ...

(21 pages) 222 1 4.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

"Hard Times" by Dickens.

Class Struggle in Hard TimesHard Times displays the struggles of two different classes. The working ... ble to live or appreciate it. Minor characters in Hard Times support Dickens' overall perception of class as personified by the leading figures.In the novel, Rachael exemplifies the nobility of the wo ... soul. In addition, her hard working behavior directly contrasts with the lazy attitude of the upper classes, as seen in Tom and his extravagances. Meanwhile, Rachael also compliments the nobility of S ...

(3 pages) 47 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Aristocracy & Government

ed and toiled to gain a place in the aristocratic society. But what determined who was of the upper class and who wallowed in the working class? If you owned land, you probably owned people, chained t ... hose that owned the land were royalty, knights and dukes under the king, with a structured and high-class society with constant balls and extravagant affairs, while the poor worked the land. During th ...

(5 pages) 34 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This is an essay about MArx and his beliefs abou tthe worl and how they act

et ahead of the rest. This is what causes the splits in capitalism; the drive to be number one."The class struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie, distinguishes communism from other socialist mov ... revolution against existing regimes" (http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/comm). Marx said that every class struggle is also political struggle. "This means that, if the proletarians and capitalists wer ...

(2 pages) 34 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Karl Marx

History is the history of class struggle. All that is solid melts into air. Men's ideas change with changes in the conditions ... corruption, the whip of hunger, etc. He believed that the abolition of monarchy and of aristocratic class abolished one kind of privilege, but produces "wage slavery," which can only be ended by the a ... roduction.In the 1960's, the rise of conflict theories, stressing the importance of stratification, class, conflict and material interests led to increased interest in Marx. Many conflict theorists ar ...

(2 pages) 94 2 3.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Society in modern drama

Karl Marx, society affects every single aspect of our life including theater. "Literature reflects class struggle and materialism: think how often the quest for wealth defines characters."(Introducti ... represents another important factor of the judgment of society on people. Blanche comes from a high class rich family, but she has lost her family's property represented by Belle Reve.There are thousa ...

(17 pages) 79 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

The 1863 Draft Riots: New York City Under Siege

ny contributing factors and pre-existing stresses in New York City in the 19th Century. There was a class struggle, as the poor working-class resented both the middle and upper classes. New York had g ... c New York and the Republican states. Democrats achieved their majority largely through the working-class and immigrant populations, consisting of many Irish Catholics. Most Republicans were made up o ...

(10 pages) 36 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Casualisation of Labour

Labour 'flexibility' is always a relation of class struggle. Historically, such flexibility has sometimes provided a bargaining weapon against ca ... iberalism since the mid-1970s, the British state disorganised and decomposed the industrial working class which had characterized the Fordist-Keynesian era. It imposed that defeat by wielding several ... struggling for better conditions.`Atypical work' is a development to which the Marxist analysis of class structure needs to respond. A recent review of class analysis and labour process theory (Carte ...

(8 pages) 78 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Article: What Shakespeare Didn't Know.

ul, shriving journey which enlighten him upon better wisdom - was never meant to be understood as a class struggle, or a battle between the sexes, or (most monstrous of all) as a meaningless farce[!]" ... neath the bald crown which to this day stands as the doyen of English Canon. Yet Marx's analysis of class and wealth has affected many spheres of human thinking such as history, economics, politics an ...

(8 pages) 44 1 4.5 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare