The Success or Failure of the Revolutions of 1848 and Karl Marx

"Were the Revolutions of 1848 successful or unsuccessful? Discuss two examples."


The Revolutions of 1848 were filled with continuous failed revolutions. One of these revolutions was in France, and in France when they set out this time to reform their government. They actually ended up with an emperor named Louis Napoleon III (Napoleon's nephew).

The next revolution in 1848, that I'll talk about, is that of the Non-Austrian Germany. Many of the German states sought to have a new and better united Germany. Many of the states did send delegates, and they did draft a constitution for their new Germany. But the conflict between the grossdeutsch and the kleindeutsch made this difficult. Those in favor of grossdeutsch wanted a large Germany and those in favor of kleindeutsch wanted a small Germany. This basically meant that one group wanted to include Austria and the other did not. The king of Prussia was ultimately offered the crown for this new Germany, but he refused as he did not want to be limited by a constitution of (classical) liberalism. This, of course, lead to the delay of the unification of Germany.

The Revolutions of 1848 seem to have been ultimately unsuccessful. I hope that you have learned some good information from this portion of my essay!




"Why did Karl Marx think socialism was superior to capitalism?"


Karl Marx was in the line of thinking that took socialism and set it up as far above the way of capitalism. He thought that socialism encouraged creativity and imagination by allowing the seller to sell as he wished whereas capitalism forced the seller to tailor what he was selling to the market instead of what he wished to sell. Marx thought that capitalism was an incorrect way of the market and that it encouraged dog-eat-dog mentality, and he did not like the idea of private factory owners and the like. He thought that in socialism the people would all be cooperating and working together unlike how he thought it was in capitalism. He had an elevated view of socialism in comparison with capitalism to say the least.

I hope that these examples have been sufficient for you! Thanks for reading!

Early Christianity and the Didache

"What are a few things we learn about early Christianity from the Didache?"

     In the document called the Didache, there is no doubt that we can learn a thing or two about early Christianity.  The first thing that I believe we can learn about early Christianity from this document, is that the early Christians had an extreme love and respect to their god.  Certainly, the Didache would not have said,  "thou shalt love the God who made thee" unless it was an important part of the Christian religion.  And it indeed was!  All throughout the Christian teachings it talks about loving God with all your heart soul and mind.

     Another thing that I notice is how early Christians, like those of today, believed in "the way of death".  Basically, "the way of death" is anything wicked.  Here are some examples.

"1 But the Way of Death is this: First of all, it is wicked and full of cursing, murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, witchcrafts, charms, robberies, false witness, hypocrisies, a double heart, fraud, pride, malice, stubbornness, covetousness, foul speech, jealousy, impudence, haughtiness, boastfulness."

The Didache

     Lastly, I will mention that the early Christians did not seem to take baptism lightly, for the Didache has very specific instructions on how baptism should be done.

     I think that we can all agree that the Didache gives a great insight into the beliefs of early Christians!  I will provide the link to it so that you can read it for yourself.

 http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-lake.html

     Thank you so much for reading this essay, and please let me know what you think!