Introduction to Humanities II

Thursday we talked about Marxist theory and how it might analyse art. The art we were examining was Italian Renaissance and so I picked the Medici Palazzo but after going over the economic situation of Europe that seems to have precipitated into Marx's theory, Charles Dickens (Hardtimes - and look at Thomas Malthus, and Oliver Twist), John Stewart Mill and Utilitarianism, and the unions in Great Britain - see also the Great Exhibition England avoided the Communist threat. The Communist Revolution in Russia was not in accordance with Marxian theory since the country was Feudal and not industrial. Hence, the name Marxist-Leninism. Lenin basically argued that the capitalist period could be skipped. The end result was not communism but a corrupt totalitarian government that made everything worse than it was. But even today we see totalitarian corruption such as Viktor Yanukovych and his Villa in Ukraine.