Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

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Japan is formed of a group of island which is call an archipelago and many years a go some the Japanese people notice that they were way behind. Matthew Perry landed in one of those islands looking to with Japan. Perry "bullied" the japanese to trade by showing them their technology, and their steam power boat and also by giving them to try the opium which is some type of drug that comes from a flower and by doing so the japanese became addicted to it.

Japan modernize and industrialize Japan by sending some state worker to diffet European countries to study and after they had master what they were send to they went back try it.
They industialize Japan that way and they started to better their technology and fought in a few wars.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Karl Marx and Communism

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Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Karl Marx a German Philosopher, political econimist,historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist andrevolutionary credited as the founder of communism. Marx wanted communism to rule the world because he thought that employes need more power and right that everyone should be at a same level of power, that a person should be paid according his needs. Karl Marx saw the workers as the good guy and he saw the rich and business owners as the bad people.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

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Marx Didn't like the Industrial revolution because Marx felt that the Industrial Revolution allowed the rich to get richer and the poor to get even worse.

The industrial revolution Inspire Marx to invent communism because he though workers should share wealth in a comunist society.

What inspire Marx to be the way he was was
  • Hegel's dialectical method and historical orientation; .
  • The classicalpolitical economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
  • French socialist and sociological thought, in particular the thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Henri de Saint Simon and Charles Fourier.
  • Earlier German philosophical materialism, particularly Ludwig Feuerbach.
  • The solidarity with the working class of Friedrich Engles.