8/12/2023 0 Comments Marxico summation![]() Elsewhere in the city is a guitar shop run by Sunny (Amanda Seyfried) and her boyfriend Miles (Harry Treadaway). Harold goes into Richard's office and finds a file on his computer that he copies to his own drive. Richard makes an allusion to a study he read on a gorilla being fed carrots when he wants bananas as a means for Harold to be convinced to go through with this so he will eventually be rewarded. When he gets to work, Harold is told by Richard that the two of them, plus Elaine, are going to be flying to Mexico to handle business involving a company merger, although Harold doesn't know that it's supposed to be a merger. He meets with his accountant, who tells him that because of Bonnie's reckless spending, they are broke. We go back to two days earlier where Harold is merely a mild-mannered rep for Promethium, living in Chicago and married to Bonnie (Thandie Newton). Richard answers to hear his friend and employee, Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo), crying for help, claiming he has been kidnapped in Mexico and that his abductors are demanding a ransom of $5 million. In the offices of a pharmaceutical company called Promethium, we see the CEO Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton) being interrupted from having sex from behind with his co-boss Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) by a phone call. Sanchez informs cartel leader Villegas about them getting cut off by Promethium Villegas maims Sanchez and, believing that Harold is Promethium's boss, orders his capture. That night, he also discovers that his wife is having an affair and wants a divorce. He learns from the recording the merger plans, which would result in Harold losing his job. Later that evening, as Richard, Elaine and Harold have dinner, Harold secretly records Richard's and Elaine's conversations while he is away from the table. ![]() Promethium has decided to cut them off to avoid harming their upcoming merger. Unbeknownst to Harold, it is revealed that Sanchez has been selling Promethium's latest product, medical marijuana in the shape of a pill, to a Mexican cartel. One day earlier, Harold, Richard, and Elaine arrive in Mexico where they meet Sanchez, head of Promethium's Mexico plant. He wants to bring the people of the working-class together so that they do away with the capitalist society and establish a communist system.In the Chicago offices of Promethium Pharmaceuticals, co-presidents Richard Rusk and Elaine Markinson receive a call from a company employee, Harold Soyinka, who claims he has been kidnapped in Mexico and that his abductors are demanding a ransom of five million US dollars. Marx in The Communist Manifesto gives a solution to the problems of inequality and oppression in the form of communism. He explains it in his The Communist Manifesto, “ history of all hitherto existing society is history of class struggles.”He sees in society a constant fight between the oppressed class and the oppressor. Marx’s view regarding all human civilization is that it is a result of class struggle. Marx influenced generations of philosophers through his ideas which as a theoretical approach became Marxism. The approach is a rejection of the idealist concept of history which holds the view that history is driven by human consciousness. According to this approach, history is considered to be the result of material conditions. Marx uses the materialist concept of history as an approach to the analysis of society. The work reflects upon ideas such as materialism, class struggle, tasks of the communists and the revolutionary role of the working class. Their association with the society resulted in The Communist Manifesto which was requested in League’s Second Congress (1847). Marx then moved to Brussels where he with Engels joined a secret society, the Communist League. Marx’s radical views became the reason for his banishment from Paris in 1845. In the very book, Marx says, “ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it.” This attitude of Marx led him to formulate Communism as a practical solution to the problem of oppression in society. ![]() ![]() They believed that philosophers have had enough talk on philosophy but were unconcerned to change the world. They put forth the concept of the materialist conception of history and critiqued philosophers like Bruno Bauer and Max Stirner. The major portion of the work was directed as a response to Feuerbach’s materialism. Both planned to work together on their Marxist credo and came up with their first substantial work The German Ideology. In 1843, Marx moved to Paris where he met Frederick Engels. ![]()
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