The official name of North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. East Germany's official name was the German Democratic Republic. Do their names prove that the countries were democratic? The obvious answer is no, that the names alone prove nothing. Delving deeper, both North Korea and East Germany hold and held elections. But... Continue Reading →
When the phrase 'class warfare' is used nowadays, it's usually to criticise the messages of left-wing parties. Earlier this year Jeremy Corbyn proposed that demographic data on the ethnicity and social backgrounds of employees should be publicly available, and the Daily Mail reacted by accusing him of declaring "class war". In 2014 Tory MP Henry... Continue Reading →
Karl Marx's central theory was that in modern capitalism there exists two main groups of people (or classes) and there exists a 'class struggle' between these groups when their interests overlap. The proletariat are the group who have nothing to sustain themselves but their labours, while the bourgeoisie are the group who own the 'means... Continue Reading →
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