Marxist Theory Flashcards

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Capitalism

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Division between a class of owners and the class of labourers

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Alienation

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Our loss of controls over the labour and its products and separation from true nature

  • owners control production
  • labourers can’t afford to own their products
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Marx’s view on revolution

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  • Abolish the state creating communist society
  • Abolish exploitation of poor
  • End alienation
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Class consciousness

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Capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction

- proletariat create their own consciousness of its own economic and political interests

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Ideology

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The means of production own the means of production and control the mental production
- the dominant ideas in society

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Hegemony - Gramsci

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The ruling class are able to control ideologies in society as long as they spread it through institutions

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