Marxism and the Family
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- Marxism and the Family
- Marxism is a ‘structural conflict’ perspective.
- Working in the interests of the small elite class who have economic power (The Bourgeoisie)
- Gain their wealth from exploiting the proletariat. There is thus a conflict of interests between The Bourgeoise and The Proletariat.
- Rarely boils over into a revolution because institutions such as the family perform the function of ‘ideological control’
- Gain their wealth from exploiting the proletariat. There is thus a conflict of interests between The Bourgeoise and The Proletariat.
- Working in the interests of the small elite class who have economic power (The Bourgeoisie)
- Explaining the emergence of the nuclear family – Engels
- Before Capitalism, traditional, tribal societies were classless and they practised a form of ‘primitive communism’ in which there was no private property.
- ‘promiscuous horde’ in which there were no restrictions on sexual relationships.
- Engles (1884) said the family had an economic function of keeping wealth within the bourgeoisie by passing it onto the next generation as inheritance
- Before Capitalism, traditional, tribal societies were classless and they practised a form of ‘primitive communism’ in which there was no private property.
- Marxism is a ‘structural conflict’ perspective.
- Zaretsky focused on how the family helped the capitalist economy
- He argued that the family is one place in society where the proletariat can have power and control
- When a working man gets home, he is the king of his own castle
- This relieves some of the frustration workers feel about their low status, which helps them to accept their oppression
- When a working man gets home, he is the king of his own castle
- He argued that the family is one place in society where the proletariat can have power and control
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