Topic 6 - Marxism Flashcards
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3 successive class societies (Marx) [3]
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Ancient society - based on the exploitation of slaves tied to their owners
Feudal society - based on the exploitation of serfs legally tied to land
Capitalist society - based on the exploitation of free wage labourers
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What’s Marx’s two-class model of inequality? [2]
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- Bourgeoisie controls the Economic base (forces of production)
- This shapes the Superstructure (gov, media, family, education etc) because of their economic influence
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How does the family support capitalism? [3]
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- Acts as a unit of consumption
- Passes down inherited money
- Ideological control
4
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What is capitalist society based on? (Marx) [2]
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- Based on the exploitation of free wage laborers
- Allows capitalism to produce a dominant r/c
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Humanistic Marxism (Gramsci) [3]
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- Ruling class maintains its position through ideas- hegemony
- Proletariat must develop a ‘counter-hegemony’ to gain control from Bourgeoisie
- W/C can only counter-hegemony by producing their own ‘organic intellectuals’ who are class conscious
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Structural Marxism (Althusser) [3]
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Bourgeoisie maintain power using both:
i) Repressive state apparatus - police prison army
ii) Ideological state apparatus - education family religion media
- ISA maintains a state of false class consciousness & spreads bourgeois ideology
7
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Evaluations of Marxism [3]
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