America, there is a dominant notion that we live in a classless society. However, Karl Marx’s and Max Weber’s social and reproduction theories of class and power dictate otherwise. In fact, they serve as foundations for the theory of social reproduction. Under capitalism, Karl Marx would argue that we are undoubtedly divided at the hands of the ruling class. In the political pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, Marx argues that society is divided between the property owners and the propertyless (bourgeoisie
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin