Marxist Flashcards
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Marx
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- called the earlier, classless society, the ‘ primitive communism’ In which all members owned the means of production
- in this development, there was no family as such
- engels argued instead existed ‘primsicious horde’. Forces of production developed, so did societies wealth.
- this led to the development of private property, leading to the patriarchal monogamous nuclear family’.
In engles view, the monogamy became essential because of the inheritence of wealth
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Althusser
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Ideological state apparatus
- for capitalism to survive, people must be taught how to behave, and the family does this.
- process of socialisation through families immerses its members in false class consciousness
3
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zaretski
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Family performs an ideological function by offering an apparents ‘haven’ from the exploitative work of capitalism
- however this is largely and illusion the family cannot meet its members needs.
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unit of consumption
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family act as the unit of consumption for capitalism.
- the family generates profits
- advertisers urge families to ‘keep up with the joneses’
- media target children using their pester power to persuade parents to spend their money
- those who lack the latest clothes are mocked and stigmatised
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Critics
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- assume the nuclear family is dominant in capitalist society.
- feminists argue that marxs view undermines the important of gendered inequalities within the family
