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Enlightenment The Enlightenment was a period of rapid intellectual growth that included newly developing soial, political, and philosophical movement. I also help scientific knowledge and reason as truth. Reason was seen as a weapon to combat superstition, ignorance, and tyranny. The main targets were religion, seen especially in the French Catholic Church, and aristocracy dominating society. Benefits- The Enlightenment benefited society by bringing reason to importance and learning into popularity. Scientific experimentation was especially emphasized. Society as a whole grew intellectually. Draw backs- The disagreements started by controversial concepts within the Enlightenment were the source of war for several countries. For example the Enlightenment’s stance was the basis of the bloody revolt in France. In addition, Catholicism lost support during this period due to increased priority in scientific knowledge. www.wsu.edu

Industrial Revolution


 * Capitalism**

· Our text says : This new economic system in which a few owned the means of production for their own profit, and workers sold their labor to the owners for whatever wage they could get, came to be known as **capitalism**. · [|www.capitalism.org] says that a capitalist is an advocate of laissez-faire that is wealthy and is politically recognized as a socialist/community due to his ideas. ﻿ Picture link: http://mises.org/images4/PyramidCapitalism.gif

Socialism

= Marxism =



==== He saw the world divided into two classes :working and not. The non-working class, bourgeoisie, was more rich than the working class, though they had considerably more labor. He greatly disliked this capitalistic society. Marx wanted a society where these classes did not even exist. He believed that the overthrow of the Capitalistic government of the time was inevitable, and that a socialistic regime would surely follow. ====

==== He thought that religious beliefs came as a response to the oppression people suffered in capitalistic governments. He saw it as the way people decided to cope with the pain of living.He saw it as a tool oppressors used to make the oppressed "feel better." They will not find economic or social success in this life, so they are promised a greater existence in an afterlife. ====

==== Even though he was not a big supporter of religion, he did sympathize wit religious people, looking at their faith as a type of medicine to take away the pain of an illness. He was very supportive of assisting the poor and ruling out social injustice. ====

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Socialism

Socialism: the distribution of wealth according to need, not ownership of capital and profits. Additionally, socialism refers to an economic system based on state ownership of capital, as well. Karl Marx theorized that socialism would get rid of the capitalist class and eventually give way to communism. Socialism would not allow for individuals to have much power at all. Marxism, Karl Marx’s theory, was adopted as a model for social change by many workers’ movements around the world. However, none of these states have been the ideal society Marx originally envisioned. Socialism was originally intended to even out society, making sure that everyone was in the same financial and economic position. That way, no one would be wealthier than anyone else, and there would be no poor people. In the ideal socialist society, everyone would simply share with one another. However, socialism today doesn’t seem to work that way, and often times the people living in these states are poor and oppressed, while those who govern these societies are often very wealthy and powerful. People don’t actually share like they are supposed to, and instead of an equal society, a very unequal one is created.

http://www.fundamentalfinance.com/blogs/socialism-vs-capitalism.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism