ANTONIO GRAMSCI’s CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIALISM AND MARXISM By Michelle Ngele INTRODUCTION Imprisonment did not prevent Gramsci from thinking and writing‚ although his jailors tried their best to stop him. His writings occur in two periods; pre-prison (1910-1926) and prison (1929-1935). His pre-prison writings tend to be politically specific‚ while his prison writings tend to be more historical and theoretical. In prison he completed 32 notebooks containing almost 3‚000 pages. It is in his prison
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Is Marxism anti-democratic? In order to answer this question the parameters of the discussion must first be set‚ with key terms in the title defined. Marxism I define to be ‘an economic and socio-political worldview and method of socio-economic enquiry which focuses upon a materialist interpretation of history‚ a dialectical view of social change and an analysis and critique of capitalism. ‘ Democracy‚ I define to be an ‘egalitarian form of government in which sovereignty is vested in the people
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Contributions and Drawbacks of Marxism Marxism is a theoretical system that created by Marx and Engels based on labor movements in the 19th century. Marxism was written upon a materialist interpretation of history. The Marxist theoretical system consists of three parts: Marxist philosophy‚ Marxist political economy and scientific socialism‚ which were created on the basis of the German classical philosophy‚ the British classical political economy and French utopian socialist influence respectively
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3. William Blake‚ "London" The population of London grew from 575‚000 in 1700 to around 1‚500‚000 in 1830 despite the fact that the death rate in the city surpassed its birth rate. This is because hordes of people relocated to the city from the countryside in the hope of finding wealth and better living conditions. In his poem "London" Blake addresses this notion of the city with the reality that working class people do not thrive in such an eighteenth century metropolis and are in fact trampled
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After the examination of the many facets of capitalism and consumerism‚ it became apparent that the modernistic capitalistic system is just another form of social control. Consumers‚ unintentionally are conditioned to reproduce their social standings. By purchasing a product’s symbolic value‚ they signal their wealth and class. Advertisers and marketeers combine the subconscious meaning behind products with tactics to trap consumers into the buy‚ use‚ discard cycle of planned obsolescence.
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This essay will be mainly focused on the similarities and the differences in two sociological perspectives which are the Marxist and the Functionalist approach when it comes to health and illness‚ also will define the definition of them. To support this essay‚ according to WHO (1946) health is a state of complete physical‚ social and mental well-being and not just the absence of disease or illness‚ however on the other hand health is a term that is normally difficult to be defined as everyone has
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because of their economic and social dominance (Rigauer‚ 2000). The Marixst theory is set up on economic factors and puts to much considertion on them. According to Marx he thinks money is everything within society and social life. Marxism tries to identify which sports are accessible to whom. A recent example: in contemporary British society class differences regarding participation rates in different sports can be found. The higher the social class‚ the more likely the individual
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Marxism is a form of communism in which there are two distinctive classes: The production class (the bourgeoisie) and the working class (the proletariat).The idea is that the two classes work together in order to create a society in which there is no real need for currency or private ownership but instead it is a society in which the classes work together to achieve common goals. It is an idea that has yet to be proven as successful when put into practice. According to Karl Marx himself philosophy
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Fascism is not a easy concept for explain even it frequently used‚ because of‚ different people from different times‚ can use the words in other meanings. Today‚ political science and people have ’contradiction in terms’ when they tries to describe the political concepts. The Fascism is a concept that hard to explain‚ because through the history of fascist countries‚ they were never the same. They have not gotten any similarities ideologies except to be a dictatorship and to be a one party system
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Part one of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” is a representation of basic Marxist principles‚ with a significant focus on alienation of the worker. The worker‚ Gregor Samsa‚ has been blinded to his disadvantaged condition by the minor troubles and major alienation he experiences as a traveling salesman. It is not until he is transformed into a cockroach that Gregor begins to understand his disadvantaged position in the socioeconomic system in which he lives. Gregor experiences minor troubles in
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