A political activist named Emma Goldman produced a speech in 1908 called “Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty” within it she analyzes what patriotism actually means. Inside the speech an important quote in which she alludes to America becoming the most powerful nation in the world, and eventually planting her iron foot on the necks of all other nations (Voices of A People’s History pg. 271 ). In the essay to follow I will analyze, and explain the meaning behind this. I will also take a deeper look at if what she believed transformed onto our world today. Emma Goldman who was born in 1869 in Lithuania, and at a young age learned of many injustices taking place in the world.…
Richards himself states, “The question isn’t whether capitalism measures up to the kingdom of God. The question is whether there’s a better alternative in this life. ”With this statement, I became to realize all of the other alternatives, capitalism seems to be the best system for our world. Richards provides communism and socialism as examples of a competition in the chapter, he disputed that both failed, and under communism, people died. According to Richard, struggles of constructing a “utopian society” has been unsuccessful.…
During Industrialism the entire face of the United States changed, from the landscape of cities and towns, to the political machine, to foreign policy. One group holds major responsibility for this changes, the common working man. These people, built this country from the ground up. Not only with manual labor, but with a declarations for fair treatment. The Labor Union was the creation of the working man’s answer to big business and the Robber Barons.…
The Grudgeful, Greedy Thomas Putnam “Putnam himself accused and testified against 43 people while his daughter testified against 62 people”(Brooks 1). Putnam was seen as a malevolent man and would go to whatever lengths possible to get what he wanted. In 1692, Colonial Salem, Massachusetts became a town of lies and trickery. Based off the real events of the Salem Witch trials, The Crucible tells the story of a group of girls whose minds are set to wreak havoc on the small town that was Salem, Massachusetts.…
Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27th, 1722. Samuel’s dad was a successful brewer and served as a deacon for the Old and New South churches in boston. Samuel’s dad also was a Boston selectman and representative to the assembly. Samuel’s mom was also deeply religious from the teachings of Jonathan Edwards. Samuel’s childhood insisted of him surviving and 2 other children surviving out of 12 children all together.…
In Simpson’s The Impossibility of Republican Freedom , he attacks Philip Pettit’s accounts of republican freedom. He raised two examples explicating that the impossibility of republican freedom. In this paper, I will go through Pettit’s account of republican freedom, and Simpson’s master-slave example.…
In Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, Emma Goldman states: “Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature”. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two of the most influential modern philosophers, presumed to speak authoritatively on human nature. They presumed so much so, that each of the philosophers dedicated the bulk of a novel to discussing their interpretation of human nature. In fact, Goldman herself speaks quite extensively on her interpretation of human nature. Hobbes, Locke, and Goldman fit together nicely on the philosophy of human nature spectrum.…
Who could have possibly envisioned that the American public would appoint a tyrant as president of the United States―a seemingly free and fair country? Timothy Snyder writes On Tyranny to prepare readers for tyranny that may not be as remote or as improbable as they may believe with the Trump Administration as his main focus. The twenty lessons inform the audience on strategies to thwart fascism before it overpowers a nation. As a professor of history at Yale University and a novelist, he uses his expertise on Nazism and Communism to construct his arguments (Snyder, 88). In On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder skillfully connects tyranny in European history to tyranny of the twentieth-first-century as well as utilizing logical reasoning.…
Carl Becker wrote about the “ideal democracy” in a government. The main purpose of his lecture is to make a clear understanding on the nature of democracy. He compares it with other forms of government that confide in a autocracy and the leadership of the few rather than the many. He states his concrete definition of democracy as, “A democratic government has always meant one in which the citizens, or a sufficient number of them to represent more or less effectively the common will, freely to act from time to time, and according to established forms, to appoint or recall the magistrates and to enact or revoke the laws by which the community is governed.” (Becker, 145) The Work of Carl Becker and his views on Ideal Democracy relates closely…
INTRODUCTION There are several theories that can be used as a lens to understand organizational management and organizational behavior (Kirst-Ashman, 2014). This paper will utilize the political-economy theory to assess the substance abuse treatment provider that operates under the business name of The Women’s Treatment Center (TWTC). According to the political-economy theory two resources are needed. The organization must have “legitimacy, political power and economic resources (Kirst-Ashman, 2014, p. 173).” The origins of TWTC can be seen through the political-economy theory.…
In the Gilded Age many people used greed to their advantage of becoming well known and wealthy. The definition of greed is the selfish desire for something, especially wealth and power. To the more fortunate, greed was a great thing because they kept gaining power from what they were doing, but to the less fortunate greed was seen as an awful thing because it gave them nothing to benefit from. Some people during this time that were seen as greedy would often give back to the community what they had taken away from it after they had passed. They would do this type of good deed to clear their name.…
“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down on paper no others can see” (17). In the fictional novel Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the character Equality 7-2521 has the journey of a lifetime, during his journey he discovers that things are more important following the laws. Throughout the course of the text, the theme of Government/Laws changes and develops in many ways in Equality's mind.…
Disasters come natural in some cases and in other cases they do not, In Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism she argues about free market economic policies. As citizens are focused on dealing with disasters during a time of great misfortune, Naomi clearly states her thoughts on free market economic policies. Naomi’s argument throughout the entire book sums up the idea of an anti-capitalist movement. Being stunned by disaster, economic policies the government created so that when the majority who is not the rich tried to advance, the rich will not have any competition.…
Anthony Rockwell’s theory about money was that it could buy anything. I think this is untrue because things such as, emotions cannot be bought in the genuine form with money. Yes, money may set up a situation, but it does not make the feelings that come out of what might happen. I think that Rockwell may have this theory because he has so much money, and that makes him think that the possibilities with money are endless. If he was not as rich, I think Rockwell would realize that there are things that you cannot buy, but you have to earn them.…
In this paper, I will argue that Charles Taylor is correct for challenging the crude version of negative liberty and proving that it is indefensible in a liberal society, and by doing so making negative liberty a form of positive liberty. In his famous work, “What’s wrong with negative liberty?”, Charles Taylor takes on Isiah Berlin’s argument against negative liberty. In this essay, we will see Berlin’s distinction of different kinds of liberties, then go through Taylor’s paper on criticizing Berlin’s idea of negative liberty. We will also look at Taylor’s criticism of negative liberty’s advantages to liberalism’s goal of advancing individual prosperity.…