Category: Karl Marx

What is a fair society? is quite an extensive question that interprets our opinions through an ideological filter. For the reason that ever since Aristotle a famous Greek philosopher, there has been a sense of accordance that every society especially the one we currently live in should always aim for fairness and equality. There is…

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier’s comfortable middle-class home on the Moselle river in Germany. In one of the sites that I found, it mentioned that, when he was 17 years old, he attended the University of Bonn, where he also enrolled in the faculty of law (Karl Marx 1818-1833).…

Sociology is the science of society, social institutions, and social relationships. Sociologists study society and social behavior by examining the groups, cultures, organizations, social institutions, and processes that develop when people interact and work together. One historical famous sociologist was Karl Marx, he contributed to the studies of sociology. I will discuss who Karl Marx…

The aspect of alienation is the de- humanitarian of labour itself. this happens in the course of the division of labour promoted by capitalism. Division of labour is not a discovery of capitalism. It developed some years ages ago in history. At the same time, the source of material and cultural progress and human alienation…

Sociology was not yet a defined discipline still, Karl Marx is claimed as one of the founders of sociology. Marxs approach to modern science that was distinctly sociological was his response of critical sociology (Little and McGivern, 2014). In combining his theory of Historical Materialism, alienation and the Communist Manifesto. It claimed Marx as a…

Choose either Plato or Aristotle and one other thinker from those discussed in class (with the exception of Machiavelli). Compare and contrast the political philosophies of the thinkers chosen so as to discuss key concepts of political theory including democracy, equality and rights including the (civil) right to protest and to disobedience. It is interesting…

Abstract The interest of modern scientists in Karl Marxs relevance has arisen due to the globalization of the world economy and the financial crisis that has hit the leading industrial countries in recent years. The opinion of Marxs importance today is divided between two camps of scientists and critical scholars: one says that there is…

Karl Marx introduced the idea of Marxism, a socioeconomic way of organizing society by making the workers own the means of production. Marx proposed that this was the next step for all of society. This idea had its fair share of pros and cons that prevent people from making it a part of their society…

Religion could be a set of convictions that are passionately held by a gathering of individuals that are reflected in a worldview and in expected beliefs, activities, or actions. There are numerous different religions, each with a diverse set of beliefs. Beliefs are about the world and the individuals in it, about how they came…

Modern society, or modernity, according to Giddens (1990) is defined as modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards & which subsequently became more or less worldwide in their influence. Karl Marx and Max Weber are two prominent social scientists who had different views on modern society,…