6: Rosa Luxemburg passage

“From dead machines assigned their place in production by capital, the proletarian masses must learn to transform themselves into the free and independent directors of this process.  They have to acquire the feeling of responsibility proper to active members of the collectivity which alone possesses ownership of all social wealth.  They have to develop industriousness without the capitalist whip, the highest productivity without slavedrivers, discipline without the yoke, and order without authority.  The highest idealism in the interest of the collectivity, the strictest self discipline, the truest public spirit of the masses are the moral foundations of socialist society, just as stupidity, egotism, and corruption are the moral foundations of capitalist society.” 

                                                                                                  Rosa Luxemburg

This passage by Rosa Luxemburg explaining the importance of transforming oneself from slavery to being one own master. She gave a road map on how to achieve this envious height that the foundation of capitalist society doesn’t want the masses to become aware of. She further states that manpower development strengthens the skill set and know-how of workers, enabling them to increase their output or develop innovative, new products.  In relation to nihilism she suggests that it could be a new orders of solution to nihilism, in that, she emphases the need for significance of experience for the development of the masses, which in turn will uplift the lives of the working class.

6:The blue Angel

1.   1.     The scene from the movie.

The Professor is then given drinks to calm his nerves, leading to his becoming pleasantly inebriated as he is serenaded by Lola. Lola sings of how she is falling in love again, and can't help it. The song is once again prophetic  of things to come.

This is the sign of weakness on the part of the Professor and will surely land him in to big problem. As a respectable and a role model in his society the professor should have known better, but he allow him self to be trap by Lola.

2.     2.  lyrics interpretation

             lyrics

Politicians
are magicians
who make swindles disappear
The bribes they are taking
the deals they are making
never reach the public's ear
The left betrays, the right dismays
the country's broke and guess who pays
But tax each swindle in the making
profits will be record breaking
Everyone swindles some
so vote for who will steal for you.

German translation

Bürger schwindelt,
Staatsmann schwindelt,
Schwindel, was die Zeitung schreibt,
Moral und Sitte,
rechts, links und Mitte!
Ehrlich ist, was übrig bleibt!
Alles sucht sich zu betrügen,
na, sonst mübt’ich wirklich lügen!
Bins, das kann ich glatt beteuern:
Könnt’ den Schwindel man besteuern,
hätt’ der Staat nicht Sorgen mehr,
denn dann wär’ er Millionär!
Alles Schwindel, alles Schwindel, usw.

This verse is explaining political corruptions, which is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain: Such as bribery, extortion, nepotism, patronage, and embezzlement etc.

  Moreover, politician being magicians implies that they absolutely do not practice what they preach but only promise what they cannot deliver and eventually when the country is in debt, the tax payers will be affected at the end.

Also, the Lyrics depicts that after the politicians had practice all their act of corruption they will come back and seek your vote in order to proceed with their swindling.

I chose this part because the lyrics is actually refereeing to public corruption which poses a deep-seated threat to our national security and way of life. It impacts everything from how well our borders are secured and our neighborhoods protected, to verdicts handed down in court, to the quality of our roads, schools, and other government services. And it takes an important toll on our pocketbooks, wasting billions in tax dollars every year.

lyrics

 The battle for emancipation's been raging since history began
Yes, feminists of every nation want to chuck off the chains made by man
Hula girls and housemaids and wives in Maribou
hear all our voices thunder in protest
Anything that men do women can do too
and more that that we women do it best.

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German translation

Raus mit den Männern!
(für Claire Waldoff)
Es geht durch die ganze Historie
ein Ruf nach Emanzipation
vom Menschen bis zur Infusorie
überall will das Weib auf den Thron.
Vin Hawai-Neger bis zur Berliner Range
braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall daher:
Was die Männer können, können wir schon lange
und vielleicht ’ne ganze Ecke mehr.


This part of the lyrics is in reference to female gender discrimination and inequality, its explain the rage within females during that era and the ordeal they went through, there is the prejudice that women’s job is strictly domestic duties either to become housewives or housemaid. However the lyrics also explain their desire to be liberated from this discriminatory.

I chose this part of the lyrics because this perception still exists in most part of the world, because women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide.  Women challenges begin in childhood. Young girls may be brought up to believe that they are only suited for certain professions or, in some cases, only to serve as wives and mothers. Gender lines are drawn early, and exclusions for women continue throughout adulthood. These constant messages may lead to a false belief that women do not belong in the high-powered corporate world.

3.     Under Reich Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175 says that, A male who commits a sex offense with another male or allows himself to be used by another male for a sex offense shall be punished with imprisonment. Where a party was not yet twenty-one years of age at the time of the act, the court may in especially minor cases refrain from punishment. An unnatural sex act committed by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed.

This relates with our lectures, in that Weimar Republic, was mare with homosexuality, too much prostitution and drug abuse in the open. The period between World War I and the transition of Adolf Hitler, this was time of depravity, pleasure-seeking and many more but this kind of law spear head  Germany to be among the place for gays to seek for right.

4: The Franfurt School-Theorist Qoute

The Franfurt School-Theorist Qoute

“In our age the objective social tendency is incarnate in the hidden subjective purposes of company directors, the foremost among whom are in the most powerful sectors of industry – steel, petroleum, electricity, and chemicals” Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno was  born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund on September 11, 1903  and died on August 6, 1969 he was a German Jewish sociologist, philosopher  and musicologist known for his critical theory of society.

He was among the leaders of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, his works were essential to a critique of modern society. He is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's prime thinkers on aesthetics and philosophy, as well as one of its greatest essayists.

   Moreover, considering the aforementioned quote by Theodore, he is a big critic of mass culture ,he is proclaiming that the mass culture are highly subjective with regards to the directors as they use the industry to  produce or relay their own subjective ideologies to the detriment of the listeners who are ignorant about it, Hence increasing mass deceptions .

   In addition, Adorno thinks that the exceptional increase in the forces of production in recent times had an effect contrary from the expectation by Marxist theory. Adorno thinks the development of technology had increased mass deception and monopolistic control by the culture industry.

   Undoubtedly, the media can easily influence the public with their own hidden ideologies in the capitalist societies; however, Mass media is a significant force in modern culture, particularly in America. Sociologists refer to this as a mediated culture where media reflects and creates the culture. Communities and individuals are bombarded constantly with messages from a huge number of sources such as TV, and magazines, to name a few. These messages promote not only products, but moods, attitudes. Mass media makes possible the concept of celebrity: without the ability of movies, magazines, and news media to reach across thousands of miles, people could not become famous.