Karl Marx's Dialectical Materialism

Karl Marx’s ideas mainly revolves around the movement and process of history and struggle of real people. He coined the term as Dialectical Materialism; everything is a material object and every item in existence conflicts with another object. Unlike Hegel, Marx believes the internal drive to change society was driven by a materialistic idea, “…Marx looked at the forces of production--the way humans collectively produce their means of subsistence and reproduce themselves--as the source of internal change, contradiction and conflict” (Ruder). According to Marx, his idea is in direct opposition to the German ideology, which focuses on Heaven to Earth: spiritual to material. In this instance, wealthy and the poor conflict and have different

Countless times the wrong person has been sentence to death or convicted because of an error made by the law. The percentage for convicting the wrong is 4.1%; the wrong person could serve a life sentence (Gross). Along with decision errors, government officials can be biased. For example, Brock Turner, a Stanford star swimmer was convicted of rape, but he only served six months. Apparently, his judge, Aaron Pesky, was biased against women and did not take sexual assault cases seriously. Also, the judge was a former student-athlete at Stanford. Also, people argued white privilege was an advantage for the young swimmer. Justice was not done by the law or government in the Brock Turner case; a rapist walked free with hardly any

They began protesting poverty, unemployment, government corruption, and the rule of president Hosni Mubarak (Alijazeera). Thousands of citizens flooded the streets in late January; they deemed it the “day of rage”. As the day wore on, the police finally arrived. The peaceful protesters were blasted with water cannons and choked with tear gas; yet, they persevered. Unfortunately, as the protest continued, more violent measured were used. Protesters hurled rocks and firebombs at security; the police had no other option but to retaliate with tear gas, water cannons, and batons. Citizens desperately fought and continued to repeat “We will not quit until or demands are met.” About a week later, Hosni Mubarak announces he will not run for reelection but refuses to step down from office, which is a main demand of the protesters. The citizens continue to crowd the streets. Two weeks later Mubarak resigns from the office. I believe Wilson would be delighted with Egypt’s revolutions; they destroyed government power. It was a political and social revolution, and the people were fighting for equality throughout all classes. The government was corrupt; therefore, not being just and lawful towards their citizens. Wilson would demand a change from the central authority figure, Mubarak. After the revolution, Egypt reestablished their government, which Wilson would ultimately disagree with. Along with Wilson, I believe