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    This document discusses Karl Marx and Marxist literary theory in 3 paragraphs. It provides background on Karl Marx, noting that he published influential works criticizing capitalism and was exiled to London. It then outlines the 3 main components of Marxism: a political doctrine, philosophy of history, and economic analysis. The final paragraph summarizes Marxist literary theory, explaining that it critiques societies and texts in terms of issues like class and culture. It analyzes how the bourgeoisie control the economic base and superstructure to maintain class consciousness and power over the proletariat. The document also briefly discusses the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure and their relationship.

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    This document discusses Karl Marx and Marxist literary theory in 3 paragraphs. It provides background on Karl Marx, noting that he published influential works criticizing capitalism and was exiled to London. It then outlines the 3 main components of Marxism: a political doctrine, philosophy of history, and economic analysis. The final paragraph summarizes Marxist literary theory, explaining that it critiques societies and texts in terms of issues like class and culture. It analyzes how the bourgeoisie control the economic base and superstructure to maintain class consciousness and power over the proletariat. The document also briefly discusses the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure and their relationship.

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    Sura Salah

    Abdulhadi
    20131306020
    literary Theory
    Marxist Theory
    and Karl Marx
    German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published 'The Communist Manifesto' and
    'Das Kapital,' anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism .
    Karl Marx began exploring socio-political theories at university among the Young Hegelians. He
    became a journalist, and his socialist writings would get him expelled from Germany and France. In
    1848, he published The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels and was exiled to London,
    where he wrote the first volume of Das Kapital and lived the remainder of his life.
    Karl Marx and conflict theory
    Father of modern socialism , communism and conflict theory
    Marxism is a western intellectual tradition spanning 150 years,
    consisting of 3 components.
    1- a political doctrine
    2- a philosophy ( or anti-philosophy) pf history
    3- and an analysis of the functioning of the economy.
    Marxist literary theory
    A form of critique or discourse for interrogating all societies and their texts in terms of
    certain specific issues , including race, class, and the attitudes shared within a given
    culture.
    Developed from the writings of Karl Marx in the 19 century it’s a critique of capitalism
    as an economic system and the conditions associated with it.

    It’s a class struggle between the bourgeois who own the means of production and the
    exploited proletariat , profit is the accumulation of exploitation.
    The bourgeois control the economic base and the superstructure , they keep their
    masses ignorant through ideological control ( media and religion ) , this result in false
    class consciousness.

    Workers became alienated from the proses of production, becoming a machine.


    The Marxist theory views the democracy in the social context of class analysis during the era of industrial
    revolution. Society was divided into two classes viz: capitalists or owners of the property are called as ‘bourgeois’
    and the working class is called as ‘proletariat’. The Marxist theory of Democracy held the political position to
    always challenge the dominance of capitalists and against the exploitations of working class. The Marxist theory of
    democracy did not support electoral rights, but strongly supported economic rights and the creation of ‘socialist
    democracy.

    The Marxist theory of Democracy favoured the collapse of capitalism and calls for the revolutionary transformation
    of the society. It believes that political power is possible only through the ideals of ‘socialism’; and is based on the
    equal distribution of economic power against the unequal wealth and ownership of production. The Marxists
    democrats and socialists believe in the removal of class differences and privileges are the necessary step to freedom,
    equal status and democracy.
    Base and superstructure
    In Marxist theory , society consists of two parts: the base
    ( substructure) and ( superstructure )
    The base comprises the forces and relations of production ( employer,
    property relations) into which people enter to produce the necessities of
    life .
    The superstructure determines society's other relationships and ideas to
    comprise its superstructure including ( culture, roles, rituals, institution)
    The relation of the two parts is not strictly unidirectional.
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