Invisible Hand Theory & Communist Manifesto

The invisable hand theory sounds to me like the idea behind the way people live their lives today. A free market where anyone can be a buyer or a producer. Such as America today, any citizen can be whatever they want to be in society. It is all within the hands of the individual. The invisable hand is the governments watching but not handling the prices, resources of labor of any of the products being sold. That is about it about this idea. It is simple. If a man wants to succeed this policy is the best. It encourages growth within a special field of production and the need to produce more using as little material as possible. The chance to  earn a bigger profit flourished in this time. 
This idea was the nightmare that Marx pictured. He was communisms biggest cheerleader. In his writings of the communist manifesto he basically went through the guidelines and the perks of the communist system, in his eyes. He talks of equality between all no matter what rank. On the surface this may sound like a peaceful idea but deep down it is probably the sickest, saddest way of life on a society. Where is the chance to be unique, stand out and find who you are as an individual. Where is the chance to laugh at jokes told by others when everyone is too scared to say the wrong thing stepping out of line in society. A world of clones is what Marx wanted. How can you have happiness when you are repressed to being what the government tells you to be. I can't imagine the mindset of any one who would propose this and I am sad that there are people in societies that believe this is okay to be forced upon them. Karl Marx was, in my opinion, a psyco.

Chapter 18

 This chapter focuses on the industrial revolution in Europe. This was a time of change that many people were skeptical about. The IR was filled with new energy sources. For instance steam and petroleum engines made a huge impact on society. I'd imagine in the automobile/machinery industry. These inventions in Europe spread globally. Although not all nations are quit as successful or advanced in the industry world, every nation has conformed to its inventions in some way. There were some people who fought this cause though. They were fallowers of a man named Mahatma Ghandi who believed that the industrial revolution was a curse on economics. That it would eventually ruin our society. We have yet to know if that is true or not. Honestly technology has become so advanced throughout the industries that people are becoming dependent on their electronic devises. Is there going to be a day when someone will not be able to function without their SmartPhone in their hand?
I also found it interesting that Europe did not experience any technological revolutions until the late 1700's when many, many other countries began scientific discoveries in the 700-1400's. But a special fact about the European revolution and its workers was that the government had a special alliance with its workers. They would often receive special privileges. This was the governments was of encouraging commerce and innovation. They even imposed tariffs and patent laws to protect the businessmen. Britain was the host place for the revolution as it was the most commercialized and well known of all European countries. It also had a willing aristocratic population interested in commerce and a great supply of workers. The geography was convieniant with the road and canal system that greatly helped transportation run smoothly.

Chapter 17 Parts 1,2,&3 (499-524)

This chapter revolves around revolutions. The North American, Hatian, and French. The North American revolution in (1775-1787), aided by the French, eventually influenced the French enough that they start their own revolution (1789-1815), which I find very interesting. It is awesome to see a country work together as a whole to strive for a better life. In this case the French took over their land by dethroning the King and Queen when their government was going through bankruptcy. France broke up into many territorial departments that joined together to build one massive army. The army of 800,000 men was the biggest in the history of the world at that time. Napoleon took control through conquest, taking away liberty but giving the people social equality. Even though this lead to chaos and murder it was an eventful step for the French that would not have been possible without our inspiration. In fact, many americans believed they were creating a new world order. This by a powerful rule on the declaration of independence we created, "the right to revolt." 
Meanwhile was the Hatian revolution (1791-1804). This was a revolt driven by the slave population that made up over 90% of the entire population. This was unique because the power did shift to the slaves. Making this the only successful slave revolution in history. It was a very violent revolt. Way worse then the political revolution in NA and still worse then the French revolution. This revolution inspired hope to many slaves else where leading to more slave rebellions. But in the views of the whites in the country of Hatia, this revolution scared them so much that they all became conservatives. 
The Spanish American Revoltion (1810-1825) was easily motivated by the previous revolutions and their success. Yet they were not as organized as the others had been at first. This was because the government was more strict and there were little to no small organizations in towns that had a say in what their people wanted. Although they were able to gain independence it was impossible to unite the states like North America. Mostly because the distance was so greater between territories which lead to bigger differences in culture and experience. 
I enjoyed this section because I believe in human rights and hate to see people being exploited. It is crazy to think at one point humans thought murdering people by the hundreds in towns was okay to get a point across. Now a days that would never be allowed! How is it that our mindsets have changed so much? What was it that made our human race change their opinions of this act? or could it possibly happen again?....

The Prob. of Erocentricism

This section introduces the new kind of society called modernism and the power struggle between nations in 1750-1914, (aka) the long nineteenth century. This reading basically informs you of why this time period was nicknamed the long nineteenth century and why new types of rulers and their tactics. It also explains to us the reason and ideas behind Europe being the center of the world for so long and why this was flawed and fallowed. This section was full of information leading up to the next reading so theres not too much more to write about. Just the fact that we are seeing history evolve to a time period that is growing freakishly close to our generation today. 

Political Philosophy of the Enlightenment

The reading of the enlightenment was very hard to understand. Honestly I picked out bits and pieces of it but i have no idea if what I took from the reading was what his true and original purpose was. I thought that overall his idea was to emphasize the value of man. To advocate the meaning of freedom for the individual man. Despite those who fought against his ideas he was willing to think beyond the box others did make a public point to the world. But I am not certain if this is what the basic meaning was. 

Chapter 16 (477-488)

The European birth of modern science was a way of thinking that no one had ever imagined before. They relied on cosmos, experiments, observations, general laws expressed in mathematical terms instead of on external authority of divine scriptures. This would have been an amazing things to witness. Seeing people go where no one has ever gone before is harder to come across in our generation and era. The idea that science, evolution and understanding the domains of life in general, had not been discovered yet blows my mind. Eventually the ideas and discoveries that had been born by the European birth of modern science matched up with the industrial revolution. This was a time that many marvels of modern production and mechanisms for means of destruction evolved today. By the 20th century science was a marker of modernity throughout the world. The break through that awakened the world all started from a writer and his book. The author was Nicolaus Copernicus and his book was On the Revolutions of he Heavenly Spheres. This book gave light to the idea that the earth actually revolves around the sun rather then visa versa. This broke the idea that God created our planet and made it the center of the universe. The most well known contributors to the science progression of the 19th century were Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, and Sigmund Freud.

Chapter 16 (461-477)

In this chapter it talks of the different religious battles and conflicts. How Christianity was mostly refined to Europe in the early 1300's but then eventually stretched to England and to the west in Russia. Although within Europe there was a major division between Roman Catholicism and Christianity. This picture represented this idea strongly as it shows the hardships the churches faced. If you look to the right of the picture the smoke emerging from above the crowd symbolizes the way the churches began to crumble. The fight between religions and sanctions is shown as the two monistaries push away the two separate groups of people towards the left and the center of the picture. The people are obviously of two different groups if you look at their clothing and hair styles. The ones towards the center of the scene more then likely represent Catholic church as they resemble a monk type of man. The crusifiction of the lord is symbolic for the tragedy of the situation at hand. The lord also plays part the idea that is represented in the faces of all of the people in the room despite the different factions they are it, they all are clearly upset that the lord is being sacrificed. Which shows the irony in the picture and even the chapter in general, that these religions were all fighting against each other yet they stemmed from basically the exact same beliefs. 

Chapter 15 pt 2. (449-458)

Trade was a huge factor in the progress of the world from the 15th century to the 19th century. It came with many problem aswell as profits. Millions of people died.Not only death but also kidnapping from homes, forced labor, beatings, and even brandings occured. This event brought the strong african pressence to America that we have today. This was due to the size of the slave trafficking. Mediterranean plantations contained slave laborers known as "Slavs" but as the sugar and cotton plantations began to florish in the Americas portugues explorers soon went to Africa in search of gold but they found instead a sorce of slaves available. Through this Africans soon became the main sorce of slaves in the Americas. They were the most successful because they were permanent, expected cheaper wages and skilled laborers.Africans then became very capable of defending themselves against Europeans because Europeans were so succeptable to tropical diseases and did not know the terrain. There for the way Europeans to come by slaves then had to be through political agreements or through african merchants. The way the slave trade developed and changed throughout history is shameful to look back on. Although it helped us become the country we are today it was still inhuman and and showed a lack of moral fiber.