Marxism + neo

Question 1

Religion provides comfort

Answer 1

Proletariat are exploited and alienated at work - turn to religion for comfort - opium of the people

Convince them suffering is virtuous with a promise of the afterlife + dulls pain of exploitation masking capitalism problem

Question 2

Religion legitimates class hierarchy

Answer 2

Religion is used by the bourgeois show their position is divinely ordained e.g. divine right of kings, hindu caste system

makes proletariat feel their position is justified and to attempt to move is sinful - prevent revolution

Question 3

Religion maintains capitalism

Answer 3

Ideology is a set of beliefs and values - Bourgeois controls spreading of beliefs throughout society - media

media (ISA) pushes religion - ideological weapon convince suffering is virtuous

Question 4

neo-marxism Gramsci

Answer 4

ideology
coercion
hegemony
dual consciousness
counter hegemony
Organic individual

Link to civil rights movement