PPT-MARXIST THEORY

By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels MARXISM Represents an economic and sociopolitical movement that contains within it a political ideology for how to change and improve society by implementing socialism The theory itself originally developed in the early 19. Objective. Understand how to analyse Fight Club from a Marxist media perspective. Marxism. At the heart of Marxism, there is a dialectic – a binary opposition – a linked pair of ideas.. On the one hand, you have capitalism, the ideology wherein gaining capital – or wealth – is the basis for society. This leads to society being hierarchical. On the other you have communism, where the common good, and equality, are the basis of society. This leads to society being homogeneous – similar at all levels. . INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL . SCIENCE. WEEK 5-6 . Theories and Models of State . WEEK 5-6 . Theories and Models of State. . (Heywood. , Chapter 5, pp. 92-106). Rival . theories of the state: . The pluralist state; the capitalist state; the leviathan state; the patriarchal state.. English 113. Literature-Based Research. Suzann Ledford. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Literary criticism has two main functions:. To analyze, study, and evaluate works of literature.. To form general principles for the examination of works of literature.. Globalisation & the digital social world. REVISION. Hyper dermic syringe theory. Which arguments challenge this theory?. Remember. The Marxist view of digital media is merely an extension of their view of the traditional mass media.. Gurminder K Bhambra. 30. th. October 2013. Room Changes … . Date. Lecture . GKB 3-4. GKB 4-5. NG 4-5. 30/10/13. S0.21. S0.08. S0.08. S0.28. 6/11/13. F107. F107. ---. ---. 13/11/13. L4. L4. ---. ---. Mo money, mo problems!. "Marxism attempts to reveal the ways in which our socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of our experience" (Tyson 277. ).. "...what drives historical change are the material realities of the economic base of society, rather than the ideological superstructure of politics, law, philosophy, religion, and art that is built upon that economic base" (Richter 1088).. Cultural Materialism . is an anthropological paradigm founded upon, but not constrained by, . Marxist Materialistic thought. . The term Cultural Materialism, first coined by Marvin Harris in his . The Rise of Anthropological Theory. How does the historian create history?. a. . He/She. selects, organizes and interprets sources. . b. . He/She. reads secondary sources and compiles them.. c. . He/She. asks his/her professor.. a. . L/O – To identify the key features of Marxist ideology. Fascism. A class of political ideologies (and historical political regimes) that takes its name from the movement led by Benito Mussolini that took power in Italy in 1922. . -Based on philosophy of Karl Marx (1818-1883). -German philosopher and economist. “Whoever controls the means of production (factories) in a society controls society.”. What do Marxists believe?. Marxist/Radical Theory. Left Realism/Peacemaking . Feminist Criminology/Gender and Crime. Variations of Critical Theory. George . Vold. Group Conflict . Multiple groups in society with varying levels of power. Critical Theories in Context. In 1950-1960s = strain. Policy = provide opportunity to those who lack means for achieving legitimate success.. Turmoil of 1960s .  criminologists become more skeptical . Marx & Engels: . particularly drawing from . Theses on Feuerbach, Anti-. Duhring. , Dialectics of . Nature. , far from comprehensive. Limitations of Marx. Expansions and contradictions of historical materialism: VI Lenin, Alexandra Kollontai, Antonio Gramsci. Dead Poet’s Society. Step 1: Explore the various "levels of the mind" as they relate to characters or mass psychology in the literature. Freud separated the mind's force into a trinity: id (instinct of character), ego (realistic part of the character) and superego (moralizing part of the character). The way characters use these three mental powers to navigate life's events is central to a Freudian analysis..