Book:

The Subjection of Women

Concept:

Women were inherently equal to men and thus entitled to the same political and legal rights

Book:

Evolutionary Socialism

Concept:

Revisionist Socialism - class conflit might not be absolutely inevitable - if workers through the vote could enact change

Book:

Reflections on Violence

Concept:

Violence is good irrespective of the end accomplished and workders should be kept alert in the class war through believing in future general strikes

Books:

Origin of Species

The Descent of Man

Concept:

Applied his evolutionary theory to human beings - 'Survival of the Fittest'

Book:

Interpretation of Dreams

Concept:

Dreams are key to understanding the unconcious

Book:

Syllabus of Errors

Concept:

Denounced the idea that the church should reconcile and align with progess and modern civilization

Book:

Imperlialism, the Highest Form of World Capitalism

Concept:

Imperialism is primarily the result of accumulation of surplus capital

Book:

Decline of the West

Concept:

Western Civilization had fallen into crisis and decay

Book:

Three People's Principles

Concept:

Democracy, Nationalism, Livelihood

Book:

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

Concept:

"Deficeit Financing"

Book:

Mein Kampf

Concept:

Personal recollection, racism, nationalism, collectivism, and theories of history

Book:

Dr. Zhivago

Concept:

Stressed individual freedom, and condemned the oppressiveness of Soviet society

Book:

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Concept:

Depiction of Human suffering in the world of labor camps

Book:

The Feminine Mystique

Concept:

Contended that women had always been and continued to be oppressed by a male dominated society

Book:

Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind

Concept:

Civilizations are not right or wrong they are just different

Volk - Common people    Volsgeist - National character

Book:

Addresses to the German Nation

Concept:

German Volsgeist was more noble than others and was to be kept pure and all costs

Book:

The Duties of Man

Concept:

Nationalism and Revolution were a holy cause - placed a pure duty to the nation intermediate between duty to family and to God

Book:

National System of Political Economy

Concept:

Free trade was desighned to make England the world's industrial venter by keeping other countries in the status of suppliers of raw material and tood - Countries wanting to civilze needed capital of its own, cities, factories, and therefore needed high tariffs

Book:

Organization of Work

Concept:

Proposed a system of 'social workshops' or state-supported manufacturing centers

Book:

Appeal on Behalf of Women

Concept:

Traced the inferior status of women to flaws in the economic system

Book:

Critical Assessments

Concept:

A given state of affairs would inevitably produce and opposite of affairs (German disunity would lead to German unity)

Book:

Positive Philosophy

Concept:

Developed the theory of "Positivism" - insistence on verifiable facts - a questioning of all assumptions and unprovable generalizations

Book:

Communist Manifesto

Concept:

Workers are deprived fo the wealth they had created - State was a committee of the bourgeoisie and it esploited the people - religion was a drug to keep the workers quiet

Book:

Capital

Concept:

Since workers never received in wages the equivalent of what they produced, capitalism created constant overproduction - the bourgeoisie always kept the surplus capital that was created