Political Power and Social Dynamics: Insights and Reflections
First Questionnaire (Legal, Lawful)
1. In our political system, where does political power reside? Who exercises it?
The power resides in the people and is exercised by the government.
2. If only 30% of the citizens vote in an election, is the resulting government legal? Is it legitimate?
- Legal: According to laws enacted by a state.
- Legitimate: Accepted and recognized by those subjected to a law, conforming to moral principles, above all, justice.
It is legal because the electoral system allows it.
3.
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B) Marx’s text is a brief introduction, The Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859).
The title allows us to introduce the meaning of the work at hand. This work is presented as a contribution. Marx knows that this is not an exhaustive analysis or conclusion of political economy.
The work is a criticism: it aims to critically analyze capitalist society and the discipline that has explained and justified this mode of production: political economy.
In this particular
Understanding Marx’s Philosophy and Historical Context
Marx was born in an era marked by the struggle of European monarchies against the Napoleonic Empire. After the fall of Napoleon, the most important countries gathered at the Congress of Vienna, which marked the triumph of the Restoration and reconstruction of the European map. However, political stability and social peace lasted a short time. Enlightenment ideas had taken root across the continent. Liberal socialist and anarchist ideologies favored the emergence of the bourgeois revolutions. There
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Capital: Capital or principal is the term used for resources allocated to generate revenue, which serves to obtain benefits or accumulate wealth. It is the concept of capital that prevails in economics, and thus it is said to be the product for new production. Capital is formed through a productive first operation and a second output in which it is applied. Labor creates the product and transforms it into capital, leading to what some refer to as accumulation of labor or advanced labor. Capital
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Human Nature, Individual and Cultural
Animal Culture is
Analyzing the biological characteristics of human nature helps us understand what it means to be human. Through the analysis of natural human limitations, we find access to the need to overcome these limitations. The world of culture, with its ability to deal with and invent things, has created human beings. Human nature has two aspects: the biological and cultural.
What is the Individual?
Individuals are unique entities within the human species,
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Development Definition
A process leading to the full realization of the potential of communities and peoples to achieve cultural independence, economic, political, and social justice, and mutual solidarity among all peoples.
Education for Sustainable Development
Balancing the good of humankind, the economy, cultural traditions, and natural resources.
Globalization
The tendency of markets and businesses to spread, reaching a global dimension that transcends national borders. It is a process by which increased
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