Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
HCJ2 - Seminar 3.
As usual, this week's seminar followed on from what the lecture was about, which was Marxism.
Marxism is something I'm interested in and I enjoyed reading The Communist Manifesto, this is in 3 main parts, here's a short explanation of each part:
Part 1: Class struggle - Bourgeoisie v.s. Proletariat. This was started by the Transatlantic Triangular Trade (lord v.s slave) and the Industrial Revolution.
The proletariat make the goods that bring captial to the bourgeoisie.
Part 2: Communism - The main idea of communism to to abolish the private property of the bourgeoisie. Nationality should be abolished as well. Marx believed that a Utopian state could be created.
Part 3: Socialism - This is a stepping stone towards communism, this stage would be under the control of the dictatorship of the proletariat. As communism comes in, the proletariat dictatorship would wither way and communism would arise.
Alongside the three parts of the CM, here are what I think are the most important things in the Manifesto and these basically sum up Marxism.
1: The bourgeoisie forges the weapons that bring death to themselves and as the CM says, "it (the Bourgeoisie) has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons - the modern working class - the proletarians."
2: The bourgeoisie made another mistake by not buying new machinery for the proletariat to use, the proletariat had enough of having to use old and worn out machinery, so they formed Trade Unions that stood up for workers rights. These were the first step (according to Marx) towards a proletariat revolution.
3: Abolish private property. PP divides the working class from the bourgeoisie.
4: "For those of its members who work (proletariat), acquire nothing and those who acquire everything (bourgeoisie) do not work".
5: The 10 point plan. These are just the points that I see as most important:
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Equal obligation of all to work.
- Free education for all children in public schools.
One of Marx's other ideas is that of alienation. He said that the proletariat were being alienated, or to put it another way, separated from wider society. The problem for the proletariat is that they don't know it's happening, they're unaware of what the bourgeoisie is doing to them. According to Marx, the proletariat need to be conscious of their low position in society before they can start to revolt.
Finally, here are some quotes from Karl Marx:
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."
"Revolutions are the locomotives of history".
"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs".
"Workers of the world unite".
TB 2012.
Marxism is something I'm interested in and I enjoyed reading The Communist Manifesto, this is in 3 main parts, here's a short explanation of each part:
Part 1: Class struggle - Bourgeoisie v.s. Proletariat. This was started by the Transatlantic Triangular Trade (lord v.s slave) and the Industrial Revolution.
The proletariat make the goods that bring captial to the bourgeoisie.
Part 2: Communism - The main idea of communism to to abolish the private property of the bourgeoisie. Nationality should be abolished as well. Marx believed that a Utopian state could be created.
Part 3: Socialism - This is a stepping stone towards communism, this stage would be under the control of the dictatorship of the proletariat. As communism comes in, the proletariat dictatorship would wither way and communism would arise.
Alongside the three parts of the CM, here are what I think are the most important things in the Manifesto and these basically sum up Marxism.
1: The bourgeoisie forges the weapons that bring death to themselves and as the CM says, "it (the Bourgeoisie) has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons - the modern working class - the proletarians."
2: The bourgeoisie made another mistake by not buying new machinery for the proletariat to use, the proletariat had enough of having to use old and worn out machinery, so they formed Trade Unions that stood up for workers rights. These were the first step (according to Marx) towards a proletariat revolution.
3: Abolish private property. PP divides the working class from the bourgeoisie.
4: "For those of its members who work (proletariat), acquire nothing and those who acquire everything (bourgeoisie) do not work".
5: The 10 point plan. These are just the points that I see as most important:
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Equal obligation of all to work.
- Free education for all children in public schools.
One of Marx's other ideas is that of alienation. He said that the proletariat were being alienated, or to put it another way, separated from wider society. The problem for the proletariat is that they don't know it's happening, they're unaware of what the bourgeoisie is doing to them. According to Marx, the proletariat need to be conscious of their low position in society before they can start to revolt.
Finally, here are some quotes from Karl Marx:
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."
"Revolutions are the locomotives of history".
"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs".
"Workers of the world unite".
TB 2012.
WHU blog: An interesting evening for West Ham fans...
Tuesday evening's game against Blackpool shouldn't have been heart racing as it was, it should have been a simple 2-0 win for the Hammers, but as usual with West Ham it's never simple.
For almost all of the first half, West Ham were dominant, creating chances left, right and centre, they were rewarded with a goal from a free kick after 28 minutes and Nicky Maynard doubled the lead on the 32 minute mark. Things were going well for West Ham until Kevin Phillips scored for Blackpool and that looked like changing the game completley, Blackpool are a lot better in 2nd halves and the worry for West Ham must have been that if they didn't get the next goal, it could have been curtains.
The second half was quite boring until the 53rd minute when Robert Green fouled Blackpool player Roman Bednar outside the penalty area, thanks a lot Greeno. However, many teams would have capitualted if they went down to 10 men with an outfield player in goal, but this was no ordinary team - this was Sam Allardyce's West Ham United, a team who had played the majority of the last two games with 10 men.
After the sending off, Blackpool seemed to fall apart. It sounded as if they rushed to score an equaliser and ended up not really testing stand-in goalkeeper Henri Lansbury. Blackpool were fragile in defence as well and allowed West Ham to score two more goals to leave the final score 1-4.
West Ham's last 3 games sum up exactly why they're top of the league. Not many teams would be able to get 7 points out of 3 games in a row in which they had 10 men for all 3!
I now have no doubt that West Ham will be promoted automatically.
COME ON YOU IRONS!
TB 2012.
For almost all of the first half, West Ham were dominant, creating chances left, right and centre, they were rewarded with a goal from a free kick after 28 minutes and Nicky Maynard doubled the lead on the 32 minute mark. Things were going well for West Ham until Kevin Phillips scored for Blackpool and that looked like changing the game completley, Blackpool are a lot better in 2nd halves and the worry for West Ham must have been that if they didn't get the next goal, it could have been curtains.
The second half was quite boring until the 53rd minute when Robert Green fouled Blackpool player Roman Bednar outside the penalty area, thanks a lot Greeno. However, many teams would have capitualted if they went down to 10 men with an outfield player in goal, but this was no ordinary team - this was Sam Allardyce's West Ham United, a team who had played the majority of the last two games with 10 men.
After the sending off, Blackpool seemed to fall apart. It sounded as if they rushed to score an equaliser and ended up not really testing stand-in goalkeeper Henri Lansbury. Blackpool were fragile in defence as well and allowed West Ham to score two more goals to leave the final score 1-4.
West Ham's last 3 games sum up exactly why they're top of the league. Not many teams would be able to get 7 points out of 3 games in a row in which they had 10 men for all 3!
I now have no doubt that West Ham will be promoted automatically.
COME ON YOU IRONS!
TB 2012.
Friday, 17 February 2012
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