In his article “Greece’s Exit from the Euro Would be a Socialist Disaster,” Louis Woodhill makes a strong case against the socialist direction of Greece’s recently-elected Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras (2015). This article is written as both an analysis and an opinion, with Woodhill offering a clear indictment of both...

The term ‘liberalism’ as it applies to government has a different definition than what is recognized and identified as ‘liberal’ in America, where it typically means that a personal with liberal political leanings would not support a smaller government. This, however, is what the term liberalism implies. Before the separations...

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are the renown 19th-century thinkers, scholars, and writers who extensively worked on the questions of class struggle, the oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, and the necessity for the former class to unite, eventually inspiring the ideology of communism. In their famous pamphlet, “Manifesto...

Social class is something that I only grew to become aware of as I grew up, as my parents never really discussed it with me openly. Now that I am older, I know that my family is largely middle, if not upper middle class; my parents are both professionals, one...

In fact, a Marxist term that used to mark the alienation derives from the German word Entfremdung which carries both social and philosophical connotations in its meaning. In the “Theory of Alienation,” Karl Marx refers to the outcomes of living in the socially stratified society. In that regard, alienation occurs...