The Erosion of Civilization:
Diamond dosen’t blame the Iraqi people for the decline of the “fertile crescent” but I think some blame does have to be placed on them. They used their resources without thinking about the future and if these resources were going to last. I also think that Iraq’s problems would not be so bad today if they were not under a dictatorship rule for so long. There was no help given them because their leader cared more about power and money then he cared about his people. Now that, that rule is over there lives will start getting better, slowly, but it will start to get better.
Bourgeois and Proletarians:
Communism is one form of goverment we should fight to destroy no matter where it is. It takes away peoples basic freedoms and there is no need for it. The one good thing is that communism is slowly falling and that’s the way it should be. It is not fair that while I have all my basic freedoms in the world, there are people out there who are not even allowed to leave their own country and visit somewhere else. Nothing good has ever come out of communism and nothing ever will.
Did you read Marx’s essay, Brittany? While the idea of government might be in the background of his argument, what I want us to draw on is his analysis of class and capitalism. Hopefully, you can lay your bias aside to respond more directly to his argument.
By: compstruct on November 3, 2009
at 7:03 pm