Marxism
- Created by: Moesha16
- Created on: 31-05-18 19:50
View mindmap
- Marxism
- Ideas
- Historical materialism
- humans have material needs - must work to meet them = use forces of production
- Forces create class division
- Unaided labour but developed tools to help production
- Forces create class division
- humans have material needs - must work to meet them = use forces of production
- Class Society & Explotiation
- Earliest stage - shared no classes = primitive communism
- Class society - one class own means of production + exploits labour = control surplus product
- Earliest stage - shared no classes = primitive communism
- Capitalism
- Bouergeoise vs. proletariat (free) but have to sell their labour to owners to survive with wages = unequal bc surplus product
- Produces class polarisation - minority capitalist majority wc
- Concentration of power in hands of big corporations so can drive small companies down
- Bouergeoise vs. proletariat (free) but have to sell their labour to owners to survive with wages = unequal bc surplus product
- Produces class polarisation - minority capitalist majority wc
- Concentration of power in hands of big corporations so can drive small companies down
- Concentration of power in hands of big corporations so can drive small companies down
- Produces class polarisation - minority capitalist majority wc
- Bouergeoise vs. proletariat (free) but have to sell their labour to owners to survive with wages = unequal bc surplus product
- Concentration of power in hands of big corporations so can drive small companies down
- Produces class polarisation - minority capitalist majority wc
- Bouergeoise vs. proletariat (free) but have to sell their labour to owners to survive with wages = unequal bc surplus product
- Class consciousness
- Poor can gain class consciousness to fight capitalism
- Alienation
- Workers separated from production + reduced unskilled labour = meaningless task
- State, Revolution & communism
- RC use state as weapon to prevent revolution
- Proletarian revolution will be first majority against minority = classless society + production to satisfy human needs
- RC use state as weapon to prevent revolution
- Historical materialism
- Idea of class inequality simplistic (divisions)/ Whay about gender?
- Humans can bring change thorugh free will e.g. Calvinism
- Althusser: over-determination will cause system to collapse
- Humans can bring change thorugh free will e.g. Calvinism
- Gramsci & Hegemony (Humanistic Marxism)
- Hegemony - ideological + moral leadership in society which is how r/c maintain their rule
- WC need to develop counter-hegemony to win leadership of society
- Coercion + hegomony
- Rejects economic determinism as explanation for change
- Why is the RC Hegemony never complete?
- Ruling class minority - need to make power bloc by making alliances = ideological compromises
- Proletariat have dual consciousness - life exp means see through rc ideology
- Win ideological leadership by producing own 'organic intellectuals' who can offer new version of how society should be organised
- Proletariat have dual consciousness - life exp means see through rc ideology
- Ruling class minority - need to make power bloc by making alliances = ideological compromises
- Right to stress consciousness in resisting domination e.g. wills lads
- under emphasis eco factors
- Hegemony - ideological + moral leadership in society which is how r/c maintain their rule
- Althusser's Structuralist Marxism
- Favours structural determinism - society has 3 levels
- Economic, political and ideological
- Has relative autonomy from eco level
- Ignores w/c can change society
- Economic, political and ideological
- State performs ISA & RSA to ensure reproduction of capitalism
- Favours structural determinism - society has 3 levels
- Ideas
- 2 types of Marxism
- Humanistic
- Free will = change
- Politcical action = overthrow capitalism
- Scientific
- Marxism is a science
- No free will + choice
- Humanistic
Comments
No comments have yet been made