Marxism
Summary:
Marxist Ideologies:
He argued against capitalism; that profits are generated by exploiting workers. He believed that Capitalist society is divided into 2 social classes:
1) The working cass/proletariat
2) The bourgeousie/establishment/ruling elite - who employ the proleteriat
Marxism and the Media:
- All media texts maintains the social divides.
- The media promote the ideologies of marxism through entertaining the workers
Althusser:
- ideoglogical state apparatuses that maintain the bourgeois ideologies and interpellate an audience:
1) Religion
2) education
3) family
4) Legal and political system
5) Political system
6) Cultural and communications systems
Gramsci:
- hegemony: through the media, the ruling classes promote their ideologies and values on the working class therefore forcing them to think it is common sense.
Eisenstein (1920's Soviet film maker) and montage:
- Used Marxism as a justification for his film making- Hollywood and conventional narrative structure and media language imposes the capitalist ideolgies on the audience.
- His solution: to show through montages that there is not a protagnist thus no one that the audience can emotionally engage with.
Williams: - contemporary marxist
- Believed in "low culture" instead of "mass culture"
- Popular culture seen as second class today whereas high culture events (ie theatre) are given a much higher status.
Why I am/not a Marxist:
I think some aspects of Marxism are true such as the fact that the ruling elite do empose these ideologies on the working class through the media. A key example of this is Rupert Murdoch who, through the Sun, Sky etc, force these right wing ideologies on the audiences and then believe that this is common sense. Even though this means that the working class are thought to be manipulated easily by the proletariat, hegemony does occur in todays society and the audience are not aware of it. However, there are other aspects of Marxism i don't agree with such as the fact that capitalism is only aiming to making profits by exploiting workers. The economy needs a little bit of capitalism to grow therefore, supply and demand in an economy should always exist. In a comminist state (which Marxim believes in) there is no supply and demand and people heavely on the government to be distributed wealth equally. Therefore, i believe in Marxism in some ways but don't think it is accurate in others.
Summary:
Marxist Ideologies:
He argued against capitalism; that profits are generated by exploiting workers. He believed that Capitalist society is divided into 2 social classes:
1) The working cass/proletariat
2) The bourgeousie/establishment/ruling elite - who employ the proleteriat
Marxism and the Media:
- All media texts maintains the social divides.
- The media promote the ideologies of marxism through entertaining the workers
Althusser:
- ideoglogical state apparatuses that maintain the bourgeois ideologies and interpellate an audience:
1) Religion
2) education
3) family
4) Legal and political system
5) Political system
6) Cultural and communications systems
Gramsci:
- hegemony: through the media, the ruling classes promote their ideologies and values on the working class therefore forcing them to think it is common sense.
Eisenstein (1920's Soviet film maker) and montage:
- Used Marxism as a justification for his film making- Hollywood and conventional narrative structure and media language imposes the capitalist ideolgies on the audience.
- His solution: to show through montages that there is not a protagnist thus no one that the audience can emotionally engage with.
Williams: - contemporary marxist
- Believed in "low culture" instead of "mass culture"
- Popular culture seen as second class today whereas high culture events (ie theatre) are given a much higher status.
Why I am/not a Marxist:
I think some aspects of Marxism are true such as the fact that the ruling elite do empose these ideologies on the working class through the media. A key example of this is Rupert Murdoch who, through the Sun, Sky etc, force these right wing ideologies on the audiences and then believe that this is common sense. Even though this means that the working class are thought to be manipulated easily by the proletariat, hegemony does occur in todays society and the audience are not aware of it. However, there are other aspects of Marxism i don't agree with such as the fact that capitalism is only aiming to making profits by exploiting workers. The economy needs a little bit of capitalism to grow therefore, supply and demand in an economy should always exist. In a comminist state (which Marxim believes in) there is no supply and demand and people heavely on the government to be distributed wealth equally. Therefore, i believe in Marxism in some ways but don't think it is accurate in others.
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