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According to Marx, in capitalism, improvements in technology and rising levels of productivity increase the amount of material wealth ( or use values ) in society while simultaneously diminishing the economic value of this wealth, thereby lowering the rate of profit — a tendency that leads to the paradox, characteristic of crises in capitalism, of “ poverty in the midst of plenty ,” or more precisely, crises of overproduction in the midst of underconsumption.
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According to the famous Theses on Feuerbach ( 1845 ), philosophy had to stop " interpreting " the world in endless metaphysical debates, in order to start " changing " the world, as was being done by the rising workers ' movement observed by Engels in England ( Chartist movement ) and by Marx in France and Germany.
According to Karl Marx, industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie ( those who own the means of production, the factories and the land ) and the much larger proletariat ( the working class who actually perform the labour necessary to extract something valuable from the means of production ).
According to Marx capitalists take advantage of the difference between the labour market and the market for whatever commodity the capitalist can produce.
According to Marx, “ Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together.
According to Karl Marx, unemployment is inherent within the unstable capitalist system and periodic crises of mass unemployment are to be expected.
According to Marx, the only way to permanently eliminate unemployment would be to abolish capitalism and the system of forced competition for wages and then shift to a socialist or communist economic system.
According to Hellman, Sophie Marx Newhouse never missed an opportunity to belittle and mock her father for his poor business sense in front of her and her mother.
* According to legend, it was in Galesburg, at the Gaity Theatre in 1914 where the four Marx Brothers ( Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Gummo ) first received their nicknames.
According to Norman Levine, when Marx called for the abolition of private property, he was not referring to privately owned personal property such as clothing and furniture that was not used to produce the " social wealth ," but to productive property.
According to Groucho's own story, when the group became the Three Marx Brothers, the studio wanted to trim their collective salary, and Groucho replied " We're twice as funny without Zeppo!
According to Karl Marx in all stratified societies there are two major social groups: a ruling class and a subject class.
" According to Marx, this began with the phase of primitive communism ( hunter-gatherer society ), after which the Neolithic Revolution gave way to slave societies, progressing into the feudal society, and then into his present era of the Industrial Revolution, after which he held that the next step was for the proletariat to overthrow the owners of industry and establish a socialist society, which would further develop into a communist society, in which class distinctions, money, and the state would have withered from existence entirely.
According to Woody Allen ( in a New York Times interview from January 30, 2000 ), W. C. Fields is one of only six " genuine comic geniuses " he recognized as such in movie history, along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Peter Sellers.
According to Marx, absolute surplus value is obtained by increasing the amount of time worked per worker in an accounting period.
According to Michael Crick, its politics were influenced by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky and " virtually nobody else ".
According to Marx, he did this by suppressing the ' liberalism of bourgeois society '; and he did it because he saw ' the state as an end in itself ', a value which supported his ' political aim of conquest '.
According to Marx, there should be a classless society once again at the end of the development of productive forces, specifically through the development of infrastructure and production technology.
According to Terence Reese, its main devisers were Maurice Harrison-Gray, Jack Marx and S. J. Simon.
According to Marx and Engels, once a socialist society had been ushered in, the state would begin to " wither away ", and humanity would be in control of its own destiny for the first time.
According to Marx and Engels, for a few weeks the Paris Commune provided a glimpse of a socialist society, before it was brutally suppressed by the French government.
According to Marx, the recognition of these individual rights was the result of the universal extension of market relations to all of society and to all of the world, first through the primitive accumulation of capital ( including the first period of European colonialism ) and then through the globalization of the capitalist sphere.
According to Marx, the amount of actual product ( i. e. use-value ) that a typical worker produces in a given amount of time is the productivity of labour.
According to some philosophers and sociologists, e. g. Karl Marx, it is the different life experience of people and the different exposure of them and their families in these roles ( the rich constantly robbing the poor, the poor in a position of constant begging and subordination ) that creates social class differences.
According to Marx, human development is characterized by the fact that in the process of meeting their needs, humans develop new needs, implying that at least to some extent they make and remake their own nature.
According to Marx, the OCC expresses the specific form which the capitalist mode of production gives to the relationship between means of production and labor power, determining the productivity of labor and the creation of a surplus product.
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According to distributists, property ownership is a fundamental right and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of the state ( state socialism ) or by an elite of wealthy property owners ( laissez-faire capitalism ).
According to historian Michael A. Riff, a common feature of these movements was opposition not only to secularism, but also to both capitalism and socialism.
According to classical Marxism, revolution in peasant-based countries, such as Russia, prepares the ground ultimately only for a development of capitalism since the liberated peasants become small owners, producers and traders which leads to the growth of commodity markets, from which a new capitalist class emerges.
According to the Marxist economist Ernest Mandel, who popularised the term with his 1972 PhD dissertation, late-stage capitalism will be dominated by the machinations – or perhaps better, fluidities – of financial capital ; and also by the increasing commodification and industrialisation of ever more inclusive sectors of human life.
According to Lenin, capitalism had reached its highest stage and could no longer provide for the general development of society.
According to Adorno, the media culture of advanced capitalism typically creates new ' life-styles ' to drive the consumption of new commodities.
According to the theses of the 1922 4th World Congress of the Comintern: “ The united front tactic is simply an initiative whereby the Communists propose to join with all workers belonging to other parties and groups and all unaligned workers in a common struggle to defend the immediate, basic interests of the working class against the bourgeoisie .” The united front allowed workers committed to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism to struggle alongside non-revolutionary workers.
According to Sheldon Richman, " n the 19th and early 20th centuries, ' socialism ' did not exclusively mean collective or government ownership of the means or production but was an umbrella term for anyone who believed labor was cheated out of its natural product under historical capitalism.
According to Williams and later writers influenced by his work — such as Walter LaFeber, author of the popular survey text America, Russia, and the Cold War ( recently updated in 2002 )— U. S. policymakers shared an overarching concern with maintaining capitalism domestically.
According to its website, the Institute desires to study the roles of capitalism in a free society.
" According to Rich Cohen, Rothstein was the person who first realized that Prohibition was a business opportunity, a means to enormous wealth, who " understood the truths of early century capitalism and came to dominate them.
According to Satin, the third force will not have to overthrow capitalism, since Western civilization – not capitalism – is said to be responsible for the prison.
According to Foucault, by the 19th-century, when capitalism and industrialisation had allowed for the development of a dominant bourgeoisie social class, discourse on sex was not suppressed, but in fact proliferated.
According to the labour theory of value ( as used by the classical economists ), under capitalism, workers never keep all of the wealth they create, as some of it goes to the profit of capitalists.
According to his theory of imagined communities, the main causes of nationalism are the declining importance of privileged access to particular script languages ( such as Latin ) because of mass vernacular literacy ; the movement to abolish the ideas of rule by divine right and hereditary monarchy ; and the emergence of printing press capitalism — all phenomena occurring with the start of the Industrial Revolution.
According to Lukács, the proletariat was the first class in history that may achieve true class consciousness, because of its specific position highlighted in the Communist Manifesto as the " living negation " of capitalism.
According to Gilsenan, Hunt attributes the success of American democracy and capitalism to the crime of slavery, a crime that must be understood if America is to have peace.
According to a 2009 interview in China Youth Daily Online, LaRouche was once a Marxist, but now supports capitalism.
According to McLuhan, the advent of print technology contributed to and made possible most of the salient trends in the Modern period in the Western world: individualism, democracy, Protestantism, capitalism and nationalism.
According to those who subscribe to this view, the best solution for women's oppression would be to treat patriarchy not as a subset of capitalism but as a problem in its own right ( see identity politics ).
According to Mao, the bourgeoisie inside the party aimed at the restoration of capitalism.
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