Marxism. Karl Marx : a theorist and historian After examining social organization in a scientific way, he perceived human history to have consisted of.

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Marxism

Karl Marx : a theorist and historian After examining social organization in a scientific way, he perceived human history to have consisted of a series of struggles between classes---between the oppressed and the oppressing.

Marx The supposedly “natural” political evolution involved “feudalism” leading to “bourgeois capitalism” leading to “socialism” and finally to “utopian communism”. In bourgeois capitalism, the privileged bourgeoisie rely on the proletariat—the labor force responsible for survival.

Marx When profit are not reinvested in the workers but in creating more factories, the workers will grow poorer and poorer until no short-term patching is possible or successful. At a crisis point, revolt will lead to a restructuring the system.

Marxist Criticism According to Marxists, and to other scholars in fact, literature reflects those social institutions out of which it emerges and is itself a social institution with a particular ideological function. Literature reflects class struggles and materialism: think how often the quest for wealth traditionally defines characters.

Marxist criticism Marxists generally view literature ‘not as works created in accordance with timeless artistic criteria, but as ‘products’ of the economic and ideological determinants specific to that era’. Literature reflects an author’s own class or analysis of class relations, however piercing or shallow that analysis may be.

The Marxist critic simply is a careful reader or viewer who keeps in mind issues of power and money and other following questions : - What role does class play in the work; what is the author’s analysis of class relations?

–How do characters overcome oppression? –In what ways does the work serve as propaganda for the status quo; or does it try to undermine it? –What does the work say about oppression; or are social conflicts ignored or blamed elsewhere?

–Does the work propose some form of utopian vision as a solution to the problems encountered in the work?