Marxists Flashcards
How do marxists interpret primary socialisation?
Where children are first taught to submit
What does Althusser say about family?
An ideological apparatus that pass on the ideas of the ruling class
Who says family is an ideological apparatus that pass on the ideas of the ruling class?
Althusser
How does family pass on the ideas of the ruling class according to Althusser?
Establishing that hierarchy is the norm. Accepting the fact that their father is in charge prepares children to accept orders from their capitalist employers.
What’s Zaretsky’s opinion on family?
An escape from feelings of oppression and exploitation at work. Stopping men from wanting to rebel. It also means that men are responsible for making money to provide for their families.
Who states that family is an escape from feelings of oppression and exploitation at work. Stopping men from wanting to rebel. It also means that men are responsible for making money to provide for their families.
Zaretsky
Who said women are essentially prostitutes offering sex and offspring in return for economic security.
Engles
What does Engles argue?
Women are essentially prostitutes offering sex and offspring in return for economic security.
What is pester power?
Children nagging parents into buying them stuff. Capitalists use this so parents buy stuff to shut their kids up
What do marxist feminists argue?
Women are doubly exploited because they contribute to the system but don’t even get paid.
Criticisms of marxism…
Views tend to be out of date because many women go to work. Children assert themselves more nowadays thus not consuming capitalist ideas.
