Society consists of the material (ways and means) and the immaterial (beliefs and values). Marx focuses on the material world as the source of movement, energy--the principle of change. Hegel, his mentor, was an idealist in that he thought "Reason" was working its own independent, evolutionary way towards spiritual awareness for humanity. It is often said that Marx "turned Hegel on his head."
A gang has a material level and an immaterial level - the material being the ways and means of a gang and the immaterial being the beliefs and values of a gang. Marx writers: feel free to use data and ideas in the film for your papers. ALL: let's help out the Marx writers since they are first. What surprised you while reading "The Manifesto"?
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I had always thought of communism has something that was extremely bad. But, from what I got out of the reading; at least in those days communism was not a bad idea for the Proletarians(being the working lower class). There was not much apportunity for them to advance in anyway. They were always butting heads with the Bourgeois. At least in a communism society the lower class was given some hope of bettering themselves a little bit.
I always thought that communism was a great ideology in the sense that everyone shares, but in practice, he fails to acknowledge just how greedy some people can be. It's this greed that keeps this ideology from being implemented effectively. While it would try to regard everyone as equal, some people's functions or capabilities are just more necessary than others.
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