Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Meiji Restoration of Japan

Matthew Perry bullied the Japanese by showing off his military power and his naval ships to try and intimidate them and show how advanced and modernized the west was compared to Japan. The U.S and Japan signed a treaty saying that japan had to open up their ports for trade and Japan tried to fight off the Europeans because they didn't want to trade with them but they lost the battles because of Europe's technology. Before the U.S came to japan they were an isolationist and cut themselves off from the rest of the world and they were still fighting with swords on horses while the west was using machine guns and japan still had the same government they had years ago. Japan was an archipelago, which is a small group of islands it was easier for people to trade with japan this way.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Karl Marx felt that it wasn't fair for the workers this is why he created Communism. Karl Marx set the basic rules for Communism like people getting equal pay and having the same rights because he wanted to get rid of the idea of Capitalism and Capitalist A communist country was ruled by its people and the people should get the same rights and pay no matter wat job .

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx believed that the factories should be owned by the workers and not the landlords he helped the workers unite to form a world wide revolution. He believed all workers should share wealth which means everyone should get paid an equal amount he also believed that workers had become an appendage to the machines which means after they would finish work they would repeat and make similar motions as if they were still controlling the machine because the constantly repeated the same thing over and over again for about 16 hours or so.
Karl Marx also felt that since there were more workers than owners the workers would get fed up and revolt and just start a revolution to take control and he actually encouraged this idea. With the idea off communism everyone would get paid the same amount of money and there is no social class so everyone gets treated equal and everything is controlled by the government so you cant have any private owned businesses.
So Karl Marx idea of the Industrial revolution is that he felt it wasn't fair to the workers and that's how they cam up with the idea of communism.