Karl Marx was an influential German philosopher. His wrote in the 19th Century, during the Second Industrial Revolution. His writings reflected his belief that the workers at the time were being abused by the owners of the businesses. He wrote his works as a means to encourage workers to revolt...

Jeremy Black’s article, “Towards a Marxist Geopolitics”, was published by the political science journal Geopolitics. Black’s text has undergone the peer-review process, which means that before the text was accepted for publishing, it was evaluated for quality by experts in the field of political science and, more specifically, geopolitics. Whereas...

The shooting of a young unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014 was by a law enforcement officer did not contain any particularly unique or striking details that indicate it would go on to be anything other than another statistic in the long line of young unarmed...

Karl Marx is an infamous figure in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is arguably the most important philosopher and economists to have lived, although many people argue that his ideas regarding the nature of capitalism were fundamentally flawed. His work emerged in the mid to late 19th century and...

Max Weber's “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” ends with a declaration that society exist as if it was trapped inside an iron cage of capitalism. Although this statement may appear unnecessarily fatalistic, it is crucial for understanding the development of Weber's thesis regarding the relationship between psychological...