Socialist Essays

  • socialist feminist criticism

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    Socialist Feminist Criticism: You Dropped the Bomb on Me, Baby Feminism and gender studies have been described as having the ability to “challenge literary and culture theory to confront the difficult task of assimilating the findings of an expanding sphere of inquiry” (Contemporary Literary Criticism 567). This area of study has taken center stage during the last fifty years, not only in our society, but also in literary criticism. Although the terrain Feminism traverses can hardly be narrowed

  • Socialist Utopia In Nineteen E

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    fully expressed. Orwell, in his political writings, was extremely contradictory. He was a critic of communism, yet he also considered himself a Socialist. He had hatred toward intellectuals, but he too was a political writer. It is only natural that a man of paradoxes would write of them. In his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell develops his Socialist Utopia as a paradoxical society that ultimately succeeds rather than flounders. The society that Orwell creates is full of paradoxes that existed

  • The Program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party

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    The Program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Germany under the rule of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party believed they were superior to the peoples of all other nations and all individual efforts were to be performed for the betterment of the German State. Germany’s loss in World War I resulted in the Peace Treaty of Versailles, which created tremendous economic and social hardships on Germany. Germany had to make reparations to the Allied and Associated Governments involved

  • The Time Machine and Mrs. Warren's Profession as Socialist Manifesto

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    The Time Machine and Mrs. Warren's Profession as Socialist Manifesto The industrial revolution was the period of greatest economic and technological growth in modern society. Starting in Europe and spreading to the world, multiple countries experienced a new definition of efficiency and productivity. Although the growth was certainly profound, many people questioned the methods with which it was achieved and the society created from its ideals. In particular, two British Authors, H.G. Wells in

  • Socialist Opposition to Genetic Engineering

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    Socialist Opposition to Genetic Engineering A debate is ragging over the advancements being made in genetic engineering. Scientist discovered that genes are the map of every aspect of a living organism, this has furthermore led to the prospect of altering this coding. By modifying one’s genes parents will one day be able to pick the color of their unborn child’s eyes and farmers will have the ability to develop plants that will produce bigger and healthier harvest. With the growing anticipation

  • Freedom Socialist Party

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    The Freedom Socialist Party In 1965, Clara Fraser and her second husband, Richard Fraser, helped lead the Seattle branch of the Socialist Workers Party in an exodus from the national organization. They founded the Freedom Socialist Party, which was marked by its commitment to women's liberation, African American freedom, revolutionary socialism, societal and organizational democracy, and principled politics. A turning point in the young party's development was the Frasers' divorce which split

  • Liberal, Conservative, and Socialist Ideals vs. Feminism before the 20th Century

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    Liberal, Conservative, and Socialist Ideals vs. Feminism before the 20th Century Tales from the beyond, story one: a parent binds his baby girl's feet in China, so it will not grow more than five to six inches because small feet in women are a sign of elegance; story two: a wife is burned alive in India, so she can accompany her husband in death. Are these stories? No, things like this really happened in the past. They are part of the reason that contributed to the birth of the Women's Movement

  • Different Strands of Feminism: Comparing Equal Rights Feminism, and Socialist Feminism

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    Different Strands of Feminism: Comparing Equal Rights Feminism, and Socialist Feminism With the developments going on in England during the 19th century, a new social class started to emerge, a middle class whose wealth came from land, trade, the professions, or industry. It was from this class that a great deal of the women working for the women's right movement emerged from in the 19th century, since they were the ones that experienced the deprivation of rights which men from this class had

  • Socialist Realism In Valentin Kataev's Time, Forward?

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    many radical styles were developed during this time. When Lenin died, Joseph Stalin came into power and accepted art that looked drastically different from its previous years. Stalin enforced a much stricter policy on art. Stalin’s policy was named Socialist realism and featured

  • Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as Socialist Propaganda

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    The Jungle as Socialist Propaganda In the world of economic competition that we live in today, many thrive and many are left to dig through trashcans. It has been a constant struggle throughout the modern history of society. One widely prescribed example of this struggle is Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel, The Jungle. The Jungle takes the reader along on a journey with a group of recent Lithuanian immigrants to America. As well as a physical journey, this is a journey into a new world

  • Criticism of Capitalism in The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

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    on the inherent value of an object rather than its market value.  In a late collection of notes, Fitzgerald himself proclaims that he is "essentially Marxist." [i]   Marxism is a specific branch of Socialist theory.  Fitzgerald makes Gatsby a novel that is not inherently Marxist or even Socialist, but one that is imbued with Marxist theory.  He does this by denouncing nonhumanitarianism, reification, and market value.  Fitzgerald implies that the Capitalist system does not work because at the

  • Benito Mussolini

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    northcentral part of Italy. His father, Alessando, was a blacksmith. And his mother, Rosa, was a schoolteacher. As a young man, Mussolini was a Socialist with revolutionary tendencies. He was expelled from 2 schools and later was in trouble with the authorities several times. In 1912 he became editor of the Socialist newspaper Avanti, and in 1914 he started his own Socialist newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia. At this time he wrote a novel, then translated into English as the Cardinal’s Mistress. During World War

  • Socialism and Thomas More's Utopia

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    Socialism and Thomas More's Utopia Socialist ideals have recurred throughout the history of literature; from Plato to Marx the elusive goal of a perfect state has occupied some of the best minds in political thought manifesting itself in literature. In the midst of this historic tradition is the Utopia of More, a work which links the utopias of the ancient with the utopias of the modern. Hythloday's fantasy island draws heavily on the Greek Republic and yet it influenced the revolutionary

  • Gender and Equality in the Workforce in the USSR

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    be discussed, a Socialist government ruled the USSR. It was under this government, that everyone was to have a job and unemployment was to be kept at a minimum. During this socialist regime, the attitudes to working will be taken from the perspectives of three related women. The first woman, Mela Krul, was born in 1932 and is the mother of Alla Veitsman and Helen Krul Zlatkin. Alla Veitsman is the oldest sister and was born in 1954. Although her work experience under the socialist government is brief

  • Debunking Socialist Myths

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    Debunking the socialist myth The problem with the west in my opinion, is that its swung so far towards the left and political correctness, that anything other than socialism and an unhealthy dose of Marxism is considered right wing. Questioning mass immigration makes one a racist; the accumalation of personal wealth is now considered anti-society and mass welfare of millions who don’t work is considered an entitlement. I work in the biggest (so-called) communist country in the world where favouring

  • Socialist Equality of Opportunity

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    intertwined. This means “we cannot avoid thinking of our political practices as alterable, and even (if only in retrospect) as possible objects of choice” (Bird 3). To some, one of the “alterable” political practices of distributive justice, in Socialist Equality of Opportunity (EOP), may seem extreme. The word Socialism has developed into a “meaningless word” that serves as a synonym to tyranny (Orwell 4). Yet, a specific form of socialism, equality of opportunity, has many merits over common, currently

  • Roosevelt's Socialist Plans

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    The year of 1929 was the beginning year of a depression that changed America forever. The fall of the New York Stock Exchanged in October of 1929 is what signified the beginning of the economic disaster known as, the Great Depression. During the Great Depression many banks failed, unemployment rates rose, and people lost faith in the economy. (About the Great Depression) A combination of all those things led to the downward spiral of the American economy. During this time people needed someone to

  • Socialist Serbia Summary

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    Socialist Serbia’s Narratives: FromYugoslavia to a Greater Serbia Guzina, Dejan. "Socialist Serbia's narratives: From Yugoslavia to a greater Serbia." International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 17, no. 1 (2003): 91-111. In the paper, Guzina presents Serbian national discourses about the relation between the official Yugoslavism and Serbian nationalism. They author suggests that such debate appeared in the early 1960s and continued to the end of Yugoslavia. The early stage of the

  • Corruption on a Socialist Farm

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    Corruption of socialist ideals in the Soviet Union caused wrongful use of power. In the book Animal Farm many forms of corruption are shown, such as, the animals trust propaganda as a truth which gives the pigs what they want. Also the abuse of power through language is repeatedly displayed. Rituals among all other forms of abuse are a tactic portrayed in trying to reinforce the loyalty of the people. The animals trust propaganda as the truth, which gives the pigs the power they desire. Manipulation

  • National Socialist Movement Analysis

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    The National Socialist Movement led by Commander Scheop needs careful surveillance because they are the most prominent neo-Nazi group in the United States currently. The International Commision of Human Rights should specifically look at the National Socialist Movement (NSM) due to the fact they work hand in hand with other hate group organization. The benefit to observing the NSM is that they will also learn much more about the other groups. There are active racist skinheads in these groups which