Karl Marx believed that the means, relations, and mode of production all relate to the inequality in a capitalist society. What he is talking about when he says means of production in society are physical non-human inputs used to produce goods. A means of production could be a natural resource or it could also be technology. Whoever controls the means of production is going to have the most power. The capitalist owned the means of production in capitalism and therefore basically were able to control the economy.
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins portrays a futuristic society set in a post-apocalyptic world; the novel exemplifies the perversion of Karl Marx's theory known as Marxism and the struggles between social classses. Collins shows the various ways in which a communistic society can be corrupted. It is human nature, to be greedy, selfish, lazy, and decietful; this is what ultimately forces Marxism to be an impossibility. A communistic based society would have no need for government simply because each individual would be more than willing to live their life according to the laws and ideas of Marxism. There would be a much greater chance of success for communism, if the location/environment was smaller and consisted solely of those in complete non-forceful compliance.
These combine to form the infrastructure and the superstructure i.e. education, politics, norms and values all support the dominant system determined by economic factors” Haralambos, M & Holborn, M (2000) Marxism believed that there was class conflict between the bourgeoisies (upper class/owners of land, factories etc) and the Proletariat (the working class/middle class). The Marxism theory was also a macro sociological theory as it views society in the ‘bigger picture’. The functionalist theory is different in the way that it is a consensus theory; this means that everything in society functions as individual parts that as a whole create society. Functionalists look at society like the human body; both human parts and parts of society have certain needs that need to be met if they are to survive.
Marxists however claim that we should focus on the eradication of capitalism, because then gender disparities will swiftly follow. Many feminists, particularly of the Marxist strain, would agree with this conviction. They believe that capitalism by its very nature is patriarchal due to the extent that it is male-dominated, male-identified and male-centred. Stating the obvious, in a patriarchal society, men are seen as the superior species and when a woman does break through the glass ceiling they are then seen to hold an air of ‘maleness’ (the ‘feminine’ characteristics are not admired: caring,
Justice, Capitalism & Libertarian Socialism Justice is one of the most essential virtues to modern society. It is through justice that our rights are protected and wrongdoers are punished. We also find that most modern societies are based on capitalist economies. Capitalism is a political economic system in which individuals or business corporations own and control much or most of the country’s capital. While these two are both features in today’s society, capitalism and justice are incompatible with each other.
Capitalism affects everyone in a different way; it affects the quality of life one can have. Capitalism is morally deficient economic system in today’s society because it creates an unequal opportunity for citizens, causes a gap in the economic classes, has reversed the consumer- retailer relationship from a ‘push’ to a ‘pull’, leads to unfair free trading with other countries, and loses jobs for the hard working United States citizens. Capitalism creates an unequal opportunity for citizens to obtain an equal education, equal housing, and equal jobs opportunities in society. A symbolic analyst according to Robert B. Reich, in “Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer” is in support of higher education. People with a higher education are not only able to help save their country, but they are able to help save the world.
Believers and people who practice both socialism and capitalism have heavy criticism of each other. Socialists for example believe that Capitalists produce a system where there is a clear distinction among the rich and the poor. The system is believed to encourage exploitation of workers, so that the business owners become wealthy. These business owners are the ones in many cases who influence policies, by using their wealth to getting what they want, by funding political campaigns, for example. Capitalists, on the other hand, believe that Socialists deny people their basic rights of freedom of decisions and opportunities.
The inferiority of women in the fifteenth century is a commonly accepted fact. This inferiority is evident by the literature of this time. Authors such as Machiavelli make obvious the philosophy that men were the dominant sex in the way he lays out his ideas. On the other hand, Thomas More in his book Utopia, makes an exception by viewing women differently. Utopia is a book describing how leaders should go about making their country a perfect one.
He frames this separation of the classes as a struggle and a constantly losing battle for one group or the other (mostly for the poor). He explicitly states, “society as a whole is more and more splitting in to two great hostile camps, [….] Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (Marx 338). Right away, Marx hopes to use this to build an argument that the current relations between the two classes is an illusion and that the proletariat are playing the zero-sum game, with the Bourgeoisie, that is capitalism. In direct contrasts to this, Carnegie believes that, in the capitalist system, the relations between the two classes is more symbiotic in nature.
Anarchism on the other hand was powerful in countries like Spain, France, Russia, and Mexico in the early twentieth century. The main principle behind anarchism is the belief that political authority in all its forms, and especially in the form of the state is both evil and unnecessary. The literal meaning of anarchy is ‘without rule.’ The type of economy socialism believes in is where the people own and manage the resources of the society, whereas anarchism believes that people should govern themselves and therefore are free to group themselves to produce wealth. Both socialist and anarchists believed in equality for all individuals to attain general wellbeing of each individual, however the tackle of realizing the