Marxism

Marxism

Karl Marx believed that working class people suffer from false class consciousness; they are unaware of the exploitation they experience.

Social Institutions

• Marx believed that the social institutions fool the working class into thinking that they are getting a fair deal and that their status position is natural and therefore unchangeable.

False Class Consciousness

• 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 (which includes institutions like religion, education and family) has on the public.
• Marx refers to this as the false class consciousness as they are totally unaware of the exploitation that they are facing.

Althusser

• Althusser takes a structural view to…