Marxism
- Created by: Joanaar
- Created on: 03-10-20 21:00
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- Marx
- believed that working class suffer from false class consciousness
- unaware of the exploitation that they experience
- social institutions fool working class
- working class think they are getting a fair deal
- status position is natural and therefore unchangeable
- working class think they are getting a fair deal
- The ruling class are seen to be acting for the benefit of society
- and the working class accept and share this view
- due to the influence that the Superstructure has on the public.
- and the working class accept and share this view
- believed that working class suffer from false class consciousness
- Althusser
- structural view of society
- criticises Marx for his economic deterministic beliefs
- society is based on three interlocking systems that drive capitalism forward.
- Interlocking systems
- Economic system
- Produce all material goods
- Political system
- Organises society, passes laws and provides leadership.
- Ideological system
- Provides all the ideas and belief systems that are followed by the population.
- Economic system
- Gramsci
- ‘Humanistic Marxist’
- proletariat can influence social change through developing their own ‘hegemony’
- rather than waiting for economic changes that Marx referred to.
- proletariat would construct a ‘counter-hegemony’
- alternative way of life to the capitalist state.
- only way for revolution is by winning the hearts and minds of the proletariat and give them something to believe in.?
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