Paper instructions:
Choose from two prompts:
Answer one of the following questions:
Question one: Using materials from the class,
discuss:
a) Discuss how writers disagreed about the effects
of capitalism on society and their own ideas about
human beings, society and the ideal social and
economic situation. Use authors and their writings from
your textbook and include Karl Marx, Adam Smith,
and at least one other writer (e.g. Andrew Carnegie,
Thorsten Veblen). Consider the sharp differences
among writers, and their perspective about social
justice and the effect of capitalism on society.
b)-Aime Cesaire was born in the French colony of
Martinique and had been educated in France in the
liberal ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet as you have read
in Discourse on Colonialism, published in 1955, he was
scathingly critical of Europe and Europeans. Using your
knowledge of history, explain the historical context for
Cesaire’s essay. (Include liberalism, imperialism,
Europe and colonialism to explain.)