Socialism
Essays

National Socialism in Cinema -- putting the unspeakable into cinematic language

Socialism vs. capitalism: Advocates and critics

Socialism as a Rival Ideology of Modernism and Industrialization: Insights from Karl Marx and Walter Rauschenbusch

The major tenets of Socialism are a community of goods, the redistribution of wealth, and public ownership of certain means of production. These tenets essentially mean that our society, as a whole, should care for one…

The emergence of 20th century ideology of Socialism gave birth to two prevalent political philosophies that influenced the path of Europe towards modernization and becoming an industrialized society.

Lenin's version of socialism, which became the model for the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and other underdeveloped nations that underwent revolutions in the 20th Century, was highly centralized, hierarchical and authoritarian. It emphasized rapid industrialization and economic development under the direction of the Communist Party, although in all these semi-feudal societies this was carried out without the benefits of any type of liberal or democratic traditions. Contrary to the original hopes of Karl Marx and even Lenin, no socialist revolution occurred in Germany, France or any Western nation, all of which remained dominated by governments hostile to the Soviet Union and Communism in general. Although Hitler led a National Socialist ‘revolution' in Germany in 1933, this ideology was hostile to Marxism, Communism, democratic socialism and liberalism, and was in fact heavily based on racist, anti-Semitic and Social Darwinist ideas.

Karl Marx, the founder of modern socialism and communism and son of a lawyer was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier, and received his classical education. He studied jurisprudence at Bonn and later in Berlin, his obsession…

In trying to create a systematic, analytical comparison between socialism and nationalism, one is immediately struck with a very basic difference of type. Though both socialism and nationalism are defined as ideologies,…

Victor Klemperer was in many ways atypical of many Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He had a relatively privileged position as an academic, writer, and journalist. His identification with the Jewish community was rather…

There have been three main systems of government that have persisted from the beginning of the 20th century through the present. Of course, those three methods would be communism, socialism and capitalism.