Otto von Bismarck:
Otto von Bismarck was born into aristocracy. In his early years no one would have imagined his future political power. He became a lawyer at 21 and was a heavy drinker. His life was changed when he was thirty; he changed from a atheist to becoming quite religious. He was married and involved in politics, becoming a member of the parliament (substitute). Prussian King Wilhelm handed the government to Otto von Bismarck.
“The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and resolutions of majorities… but by blood and iron.”
This quote was debuted during a meeting in the September of 1862. Blood and iron was often used to refer to his policies, since he extended his rule using realpolitiks, which is government based on practicality rather than morality. The Austro-Prussian war demonstrated his cunningness, gaining more land over Austria, though they were allies against Denmark originally. The Franco-Prussian war arose due to the Ems Telegram, a telegram published by Bismarck after Spain’s monarchy was offered to a German Prince, causing France to declare war on Prussia. From 1871 to 1890 Bismarck ruled over the unified Germany, industrialzing society, and modernizing it’s economy. After Kaiser Wilhelm died in 1888, Bismarck was forced into retirement by Wilheim the second. By doing so, Wilheim did much to undo Bismarck’s work and caused many of the fuses for world war one, awaiting to be blown up.
Bill Gates:
I find that the story of Microsoft is much similar to Prussia’s. Similar to Bismarck, he was quite successful in his educational career… until he dropped out of college
Bill Gate’s initial dream was to have a Microsoft running desktop on every household. Microsoft essentially made life easier for people, using developed and purchased software. Yet along with his visions, he is renowned for fighting illegal battles in courtrooms by seeking to monopolize the software market. He’s also nobility (like Bismarck) because he was knighted by the queen of England for his philanthropy. Both were leaders that constructed great empires with great influence with the various concerts their respect eras existed in. Ironically, both empires could be said to have reached their downfall with the transit of power, though Microsoft not as prominent as an example – Bismarck to Wilhem II and Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer.
Otto von Bismarck was born into aristocracy. In his early years no one would have imagined his future political power. He became a lawyer at 21 and was a heavy drinker. His life was changed when he was thirty; he changed from a atheist to becoming quite religious. He was married and involved in politics, becoming a member of the parliament (substitute). Prussian King Wilhelm handed the government to Otto von Bismarck.
“The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and resolutions of majorities… but by blood and iron.”
This quote was debuted during a meeting in the September of 1862. Blood and iron was often used to refer to his policies, since he extended his rule using realpolitiks, which is government based on practicality rather than morality. The Austro-Prussian war demonstrated his cunningness, gaining more land over Austria, though they were allies against Denmark originally. The Franco-Prussian war arose due to the Ems Telegram, a telegram published by Bismarck after Spain’s monarchy was offered to a German Prince, causing France to declare war on Prussia. From 1871 to 1890 Bismarck ruled over the unified Germany, industrialzing society, and modernizing it’s economy. After Kaiser Wilhelm died in 1888, Bismarck was forced into retirement by Wilheim the second. By doing so, Wilheim did much to undo Bismarck’s work and caused many of the fuses for world war one, awaiting to be blown up.
Bill Gates:
I find that the story of Microsoft is much similar to Prussia’s. Similar to Bismarck, he was quite successful in his educational career… until he dropped out of college
Bill Gate’s initial dream was to have a Microsoft running desktop on every household. Microsoft essentially made life easier for people, using developed and purchased software. Yet along with his visions, he is renowned for fighting illegal battles in courtrooms by seeking to monopolize the software market. He’s also nobility (like Bismarck) because he was knighted by the queen of England for his philanthropy. Both were leaders that constructed great empires with great influence with the various concerts their respect eras existed in. Ironically, both empires could be said to have reached their downfall with the transit of power, though Microsoft not as prominent as an example – Bismarck to Wilhem II and Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer.
Mazzini and Stallman
Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini was born in Genoa in 1805. He showed intellectual precocity as a child. In university he was seen as being negtle and generous while being involved in literary pursuits. In 1821, many revolutionaries sought refuge in Genoa, and he dressed in black to mourn for his country. He felt that Italy was just a geographical expression. He joined the Carbonari society in attempt to spread efforts of liberty. He was exiled to Spain and he designed Young Italy, which argued that through coordinated uprisings, Italian princes would be rejected and Austrian dominance would be lost. He moved to London and after learning English lived through journalism.
Richard Stallman/ GNU project:
The GNU Project was a project intended to be free and based upon the mass collaboration of hobbyists and users to evolve. It started the development of the GNU OS in 1984. The founding goal was to create an OS that could support software even if not free. GNU means GNU’s Not Unix. Along with the GNU manifesto, Richard Stallman listed the goals of the GNU project, as well as benefits from the users. Proprietary modifications won’t be allowed, and it is his intent for users to share. Sharing programs also increases animosity between programmers. This allows software buyers to not conflict between friendship and the law, in the case of programmers. This creates a larger group to go to for support, including yourself and not limiting yourself to one individual company. If a program is restricted, it restricts the full potential of the program and reduces its usefulness. By Richard Stallman’s experience, programmers will still program, even if there is less pay.
In essence, it seems to follow Mazzini’s trail of thoughts, in the case of software. He believes that people can attain freedom if we are to work in collaboration (in this case the writing of programs, distribution of software etc, as Mazzini’s Young Italy movement was distributed in branches amongst Italy, for organized uprisings against authority to reach liberty. Richard Stallman is rising up against proprietary software.) The sharing of information and collaborated efforts of the people in society is the foundation of their philosophies in regards of freedom of society.
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus
Mr. Thomas was born in February Surrey, England, and was homeschooled. His father was a Utopian and he attended Jesus College, graduating in 1788. He was an important figure regarding the theory of population growth. He believed that population increased at a geometric constant, while food was an arithmetical increase. Positive checks on population, however, could prevent the population from rising too much.
Napoleon and the French Revolution/ Jasmine Revolution
Napoleon
Napoleon was born in Ajaccio, Corsica in August 1799. He was born into a wealthy family, though compared to their relatives they were considered poor. He entered the military academy of Brienne in 1779 by merit. Napoleon went to the French Revolution, where the officer class was demeaned. He looked patron to patron and soon Baras made him into a high military officer. After the failed campaign in Egypt, he took part of the Brumaire coup and became a member of the Consulate. Power was wrapped around him due to political skill and of course luck.
Jasmine Revolution:
After Mohammed Bouazizi, a computer science grad, was snapped under a police officer’s orders, he threatened to burn himself. He was jobless as a computer science grad, he had to sell fruit in a local market place, with police officers constantly harassing him. He did burn himself, on Dec 17. He became a martyr for the Tunisians who rose up angrily against President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, the dictator of Tunisia. The government had become corrupt and unemployment and inflation rocketed. Bouazizi’s death was compared as “The drop of water that made the whole up overflow.” Revolution itself is the most part that is untouched with democratic movements and its governments have deployed military or oppressive force to keep chage at bay. The rulers of Jordan, Yemen, and Egypt sought to quell their own societies discontent by promising to lower princes of food and fuel. Due to the fact there was not a leader in the Jasmine Revolution, it resulted in chaos after it occurred. The reason we chose the Jasmine revolution is because many things can be found similar to Ben Ali and Napoleon Bonaparte. Ben Ali, for the first two decades of his rule built up an educational system, protected women’s rights, and removed Islamic radicalism. They had free education until 16. In France, 1804, Napoleon stabilized French Society by allowing political and legal equality of all adult men and made societ merit based on advancement in education and employment. Ben Ali promoted tourism because of their lack of oil, as France had lacked natural resources. 80% of people in Tunisia owned households almost the same as in Europe. Yet the main problem faced by both countries at the moment was the increase of unemployment. However, France during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era lacked a single weapon of revolution: The internet. Tunisia revolted using the internet, and spread awareness through the web. Both dictators expect the people to not mind much that he suppressed opposition and muzzled the media. Now, people in Tunisia are talking openly in cafes, discussing uncencored newspapers, and a quote from Ben Ali ties it all together. After the revolution he quoted from William Wordsworth PreludeI, “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/
But to be young was very heaven.”
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Born into a family in the fishing industry (not an industry back then, his dad was a fisherman, he went to sea at the age of 15, much to the protest of his mother. He was soon involved in the Young Itally movement in the early 1830s and was devoted to the liberation and the unification of Italy. When they failed to overthrow the Piedmontese government, he was exiled to South America. He lived in South America over 12 years, fighiting for rebel movements in Brazil and Uruguay. His signature is his billowing red shirt that the rebels wore. Mazzini was exiled in London, and in 1848, revolutions broke out in Europe and Garibaldi returned to Italy. He fled to Switzerland after his troops failed in Milan. Garbaldi then went to join a conflict in Rome, where Italian forced battled French troops who were loyal to the pope. He failed and fled, and his South American wife died. He then landed in Sicily during May 1860 and defeated the Neapolitan troops, then took over Naples. He seeked a peaceful unification and turned conquests to the piedmontese king. Italy was finally unified when Italy took over Rome, and he was considered a national hero. He died on June 2, 1882.
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels:
Engels was born in 1820 in Barmen, Germany. His father was relatively wealthy and worked in a textile business and wished Engels would follow his footsteps. He sent him to be a clerk at a manufacturing town and thus he never had a college education. He was active in radical causes at the age of 20 and would meet Marx in 1842 and invested in his friends original intellectual wagon. He worked as a farm manager in the 1840s and wrote “The Condition of the Working Class in England” He moved in 1850 to support Marx, who was kicked out of Brussel for revolutionary activity. The first Volume of Das Kapital was published in Marx’s lifetime. It was Engels who organized Marx’s notes and published it afterwards. He believed Marx’s principles were scientifically supported. He died in 1895.
Karl Marx:
When Karl Marx was missing with members of the working class, Marx was shocked by their poverty but impressed by their sense of comradeship. He is noted to be one of the first to consider the poverty of workers against the economic engine of Capitalism.
Socialism TODAY:
Capitalism allows a tremendous advance over societies, so many people view capitalism as a sacrifice of morality for production. Back in the 19th century it seemed that Capitalism cured the problems of disease and poverty with new technology, but today it is still a existing problem. The problem with capitalism is not production, but distribution and awareness. Over production with ineffective distribution is thus the main issue with capitalism today.
