The fact that the economy was not based on money makes it the polar opposite of Virginian economic policies. The difference in government between Virginia and New England could be easily summarized as an aristocracy versus a theocracy. In Virginia, the governance was effectively carried out by landowners due to the fact that laws were passed that only landowners could vote. This meant that it was impossible for the impoverished to ever have a voice,
In document five, it is explained that wages are low from the factories because the factory workers are unattached parts of their family and only need to earn enough money to support a single person, not a whole family. This statement could be biased because of the speaker, an industrialist
They had to pay takes and serve in the military. Slaves were the lowest in the social class. (Greek Social Classes) Slaves had no rights. Sparta had only 3 main classes. The Spartiates were the military leaders who ruled the barracks.
Marx discusses alienation in a relatively restricted context-namely, the lives of wage workers in the early capitalist society. The wage workers are, at least according to Marx, fundamentally different from salaried professionals because they had few skills and their aim of work is just money. While Marx's theory of alienation can be applied to every kind of person in capitalist society, we must focus on the working class first because "a primordial condition explains nothing" and "it merely pushes the question away into a gray nebulous distance" (Marx, 1844). ALIENATION THEORY Inspired by Western Enlightenment humanism and influenced by Hegel's dialectics, Feuerbach's materialism and Darwin's natural selection, Marx redefined human nature and examined carefully the concept of "alienation". He focused on the working class, the poorest and most wretched in the society, and concluded that their alienation came from private property.
The biggest difference between communism and democracy lies in their economic systems . In the system of communism production and distribution of goods and resources is completely controlled by the government and is shared by the society equally. It is not so in case of democracy where these things can be owned by individual citizens. Community has the main control over resources and goods to prohibit the rise of a single person or group over the others. Democracy allows for free enterprise and accordingly the economic status of people may vary in a country from very rich to poor.
In the South, the majority of families lived the traditional southern lifestyle of subsistence farming and providing for themselves, giving them a weak link to the market (Holmes, Lecture 9)*. To the North, the Market Revolution created a consumer class of factory wage laborers, merchants, and commercialized farmers that relied on the market to obtain the necessities that they didn’t provide for themselves (Holmes, Lecture 9)*. The new innovations brought by the Market Revolution shifted families in portions of the North from self-sufficiency to commercialization, thus, also shifting the importance of the
Spaniards only made up two percent of the population, but had most of the power and ran the government. They were a very powerful group. Creoles were next in line. They were individuals that were born in the Americas, but had parents or ancestors that had been born in Spain. Even though Creoles were not mixed with another race they had less power than the Spaniards and could not hold government office.
Medieval Towns During the Middle Ages most of the population in Europe lived in the countryside as farmers, because farming methods were inefficient and many people were needed to work on the land. As these methods improved, fewer people were needed, so more of them were able to leave their farms to practice another profession, trade, etc. As these people got together, they formed towns. The inhabitants of towns were free. They owed no obedience to the lord as farmers did, but had to pay taxes to the lord who owned the land were the town stood.
The Mayan had a very structured class system. One would be born into a class and it would be very difficult to move up . The majority of the Mayans were commoners and slaves. They were the ones used for human sacrifices and paid the most taxes to the priests. The only way one could move up would was to become a warrior.
His theory on education is described as a two-class system: the capitalist class and the working class. The capitalist class, named after the bourgeoisie, are the minority class and work as employees who own the means of production such as the land, factories, machinery, etc. They make profit by treating the working class, named after the proletariat, people as slaves and by exploiting them. The working class, who are controlled by the bourgeoisie, are forced to work and use all their labour/ working power to serve the capitalist. As a result, they have no option to not work as they have a poor status in society and work under capitalism is poorly paid, alienating, unsatisfying and something workers have no control of.