Marxism: explanation of class inequality
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- Marxism: explanation of class inequality
- Structural theory
- seeks to explain inequalities around economic inequalities
- the privileged in society owned the capital and everyone else owned only their labour power
- Bourgeoisie and proletariat
- proletariat are the workers; they own nothing but their own labour which they sell to the bourgeoisie for wages
- relationship between bourgeoisie and proletariat is exploitative; proletariat are treated as wage slaves
- proletariat are oppressed in that they can't adequately exercise their dissatisfaction with the relations of production for fear of being sacked
- Althusser: Ideological State Apparatus
- the ways in which the state tries to control our thoughts and legitimises the capitalist system. example of ISA = religion and education system
- Evaluation
- one dimensional - tries to explain all inequality in terms of economic differences
- proletarian revolution has failed to take place
- Structural theory
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