Social Cleavages Of The Weimar Republic

The years of 1924-9 for Germany were years of deceptive stability. Stability refers to a well established and firm state. In this context, stability within Germany would be a firmly established political system, a strong economy, no threats from external forces and no major divisions which would have massive implications on Germany. Germany appeared to be in a state of economic recovery but had concealed the ulterior fundamental problems that continued to exist. Germany’s economy as an entirety and parts of German society were still suffering. There was an increase of stability in law and order but there was no strengthening of the political structure of parliamentary democracy. Additionally, German society was extremely divided because of

The picture described seems to be wonderful as it meets the communism society that Karl Marx wants: “No private property or inherited wealth. Steeply graduated income tax. Centralized control of the banking, communication and transport industries. Free public education.” (1) This is completely different from the world that Karl Marx is most familiar with—the 19th century Europe, which was fulfilled with huge increases in industrial production and profits, stagnation of wages for workers, formation of a vast impoverished working class. Nevertheless, in my opinion, the given society is indeed not communism, hence Karl Marx would not get satisfied with it.

Conflict is caused by many things, and conflict affected many lives. There are many ways to deal with such conflict, one of them being conformity. Conformity is convenient and effective tool that is used in a time of conflict. Susan Bartoletti, the author of Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow, told the story of Sophie Scholl’s conformity and Joanne Oppenheim, the author of Dear Miss Breed, shared the experiences of young Japanese Americans in internment. Both these authors, along with a few other authors, showed how conformity can help in a time of conflict, reasons not to resist the ways of the other party, and how one can comply while resisting the ideas of the other party.

The start of Democrats and Republicans was slavery. The Republicans were not for slavery, while the Democrats were. The south believed that the Bible said that African Americans were inferior to whites, and were meant to be their slaves. Once freed, the north attempted to integrate the African Americans through bills. The south did everything to restrict their freedom. The north trying to keep the Union together had to compromise.

The Third Reich, referring to Hitler’s reign and Germany being under Nazi rule between the years 1933-1945, is often referred to as a totalitarian state. A totalitarian state is a system of government in which all power is centralized and does not allow any rival authorities, and the state controls every corner of individual lives with absolute power. Nazi Germany has been referred to as an excellent example of this type of government. This essay will analyse five aspects of Nazi Germany to determine whether it truly exhibited the totalitarian style of government.

Firstly, The Nazi party had a crucial role in the events of World War II due to their leader, Adolf Hitler. To begin Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, and fought for the German Army during the events of World War I. After the Germans defeat at the end of World War I Adolf joined the Nazi party and rose up the ranks with powerful speeches. “Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.” (Goodreads 1). To add on, While Hitler was working his way to becoming the Chancellor of Germany he attempted to appeal to the poor or less fortunate to gain political control. Hitler used his speeches to speak out against the Treaty of Versatility which he found degrading to the German people, gaining him immense notoriety. After Hitler and the Nazi party failed to follow through with the Beer Hall Putsch Hitler and many other Nazi’s were arrested. During Hitler 's nine months of incarceration, he wrote his famous book Mein Kampf Which explains Hitler 's struggle and future plans for Germany. In conclusion, Hitler 's life was intense and patriotic to the German way,

The United States political structure is one of the most conducive and great political system in the world. One of the most popular aspects of it is the two party system, and the well-known Democratic and Republican parties.

In this source analysis, I will look into the speech given by German Social Democrat, Otto Wels on March 23, 1933. It should also be mentioned that Thomas Dunlap translated this speech into English, which will be the primary source for this essay. The speech given by Wells was in protest to Hitler’s Enabling act; a law that would help provide Hitler and his followers with a legal path towards a dictatorship. The vote for the enabling act and the speech given by Wells, were held in the Reichstag on the same day, but as history has shown, Hitler’s Nazi Party prevailed, and the democratic makeup of the Weimer Republic was washed away. The significance of this speech is quite prevalent today, in retrospect to the grisly past of the Third Reich,

The series of events above that started the polarization between the two parties also led voters to switch party allegiance to the Republicans (David Brady). Further, the analyses in this realignment showed that those who switched were mainly urban, northern, and blue-collar, living in the industrial East and Midwest (David Brady). Following this realignment, the Democratic party was predominantly made up of the southern agrarian and Border state groups (David Brady). Additionally, policy results of this realignment included the gold standard, expansionism in the Caribbean, annexation of Hawaii and protective tariffs (David Brady). All of these policies reaffirmed the pro-industrial notion by beating “the radical challenge by the West”

Party polarization in American politics is a phenomenon that has been pervading into American government for the last few decades. Simply put, the term refers to the ideological distance between the two parties within government growing farther and farther apart in Congress, which have various consequences on the American way of life. The causes of party polarization include historical demographic changes since the 1950s, external forces acting upon the public, as well as demographic changes.

Karl Marx talks about the role of communism and his conjecture of underlying this type of revolution. He speaks of two different class struggles, the "Bourgeoisie and Proletarians". Bourgeoisie are the people with authority, the ones who own production and are bosses of wage labor while the proletariat are the individuals with no authority, no ownership and are giving up their own power to the Bourgeoisie in order to survive. Societies began to separate and became hostile and aggressive classes. It all became about social ranking because of the increase and need of production. The bourgeoisie society has created new classes and ranks, new conditions of domination and new struggles. It was not about family relationships anymore but about money relations. Bourgeoisie cannot exist without it constantly

The second party realignment Sundquist focuses on is that of the 1890s. By the end of the Reconstruction period, the workingmen of the country became increasingly more interested in the economic issues that affected their livelihood, but the current party system was not arranged to be a representative of class interests (107). As economic issues caused growing tensions among the Democrats, a major realignment of party loyalties began to take its place. Using hypothetical scenario 3 of Sundquist’s conceptual model, a realignment occurred with the existing parties through the absorption of a third party. The workingmen organized the Populist party (formerly known as the Farmer’s Alliance) with the following demands: free silver, currency expansion

The signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 intended to bring worldwide peace after World War I and to penalize Germany for being responsible for the casualties that resulted. The penalty caused Germany to lose its pride, power, and nationalism, thus leaving the country in a helpless economic state and in an abyss. This poor condition after the Great War in 1918 caused citizens to have a strong will for change, which provided the perfect stage for political parties to rise in power. One political party in particular, the National Socialist German Worker's Party--otherwise known as the Nazi Party--captured the interest of the German public. Led by Adolf Hitler,

Generally class struggle means conflict between the upper class and lower class the idea of Class struggle is long-used mostly by socialists and communists, who define a class by its relationship to the means of production such as factories, land, and machinery. From this point of view, the social control of production and labour is a fight between classes, and the division of these resources basically involves conflict and causes damage. Societies are socially divided based on status, wealth, or control of social production and distribution, and in this division of class conflict arises. It is important to know Karl Marx theory on class struggle; he viewed the structure of society in relation to

In the late 1920’s, the Nazi party had little success but in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis came to power. Hitler was the leader of a small right-wing party with very extremist ideas. Within a couple of years this party was in control of Germany. The factors that caused Hitler’s success for the rise of Nazism has been studied ever since. Hitler’s organisation skills and personal traits helped to bring the Naizs into power. However, without the socio-economic problems that Germany encountered and the weakness of their political situation, Hitler would not have had the opportunity to come into power and destory democracy in 1933.