Fundamental premises of Marxism
Class system in America
Role of Ideology
Human Behavior, The Commodity, and the family
Marxism and Literature
100
Assumes that the bourgeoisie are more or less the same, a relatively small group of people who hold all the economic and social power at the expense of the lower class(es) who suffer/stagnate (regardless of consideration of the addendum to address the middle class and American social structure).
What is Marxist theory?
100
The two class systems in America
What is Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
100
is a belief system, and all belief systems are products of cultural conditioning.
What is ideology?
100
Another word for money?
What is capital?
100
The best genre for Marxists purpose
What is Realism?
200
class divide people in way that are much more significant than differences in religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
What is the differences in socioeconomic from a Marxist perspective?
200
the five classes that breaks down the Bourgeoisie and proletariat classes
what is Underclass, lowerclass, middle class, upperclass and aristocracy
200
men hold leadership positions because their biological superiority renders them more physically, intellectually, and emotionally capable than women" is sexist Ideology that sells itself as a function of nature, rather than as product of cultural belief.
What is the role of ideology for men
200
When it has exchange value or sign-exchange value, and both forms of value are determined by the society in which the object is exchanged.
What is a commodity?
200
Marxist literature usually embodies this vision
What is Ideology?
300
economic conditions are referred to as material circumstances, and the social/ political/ ideological atmosphere generated by material conditions is called the historical situation.
What is Marxist Terminology?
300
economic privation, recessions, and limitations are all examples of?
what is Oppression?
300
The wealthy, in the position of power who decide who pays the most taxes and how the money will spent.
Who makes the middle class support the poor?
300
it's best to promote whatever personal insecurities will motivate us to buy consumer goods in this particular economy
What is capitalist economy?
300
Marxist literature usually portray this lifetyle
What is "The American Dream?"
400
includes social and political power which is refer to socioeconomic class.
What is Economic Power?
400
homeless people are considered to be in this class
what is underclass?
400
An ideology that equates one's value as a human being with the social class to which belong to the higher one's social class is called?
What is Classism
400
Capitalism’s constant need for new markets in which to sell goods and for new sources of raw materials from which to make goods
What is responsible for the spread of imperialism?
400
This theory (besides Marxism theory) is also studied in novels such as "Death of a Salesman"
What is psychoanalytic theory?
500
Human events and productions focuses on relationships among socioeconomic classes, both within a society and among societies, which explains all human activities in terms of the distribution and dynamics of economic power.
What is Marxist analysis?
500
it is more useful to classify Americans in this lifestyle
What is Socioeconomic Lifestyle?
500
Who is trying to exploit Christianity to promote the enslavement of Africans in American and the subordination of women and non-straight people.
What is Wealth
500
Marxism focuses on the material/historical forces, the politics and ideologies of socioeconomic systems, that shape the psychological experience and behavior of individuals and groups.
What does Marxism focus on?
500
1. The literary work may INFLUENCE the reader of the ideologies it embodies and 2. it may invite the reader to to CRITICIZE the ideologies it presents.
What are two possibilities that may interest Marxist critics?
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