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Marxism (Evolution of Social Class (Feudal Society: Based on the…
Marxism
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Capitalism
Smaller companies are forced into competition with the capitalists as capitalism grows. This drives small businesses into the ranks of the proletariat, so they become proletarianised.
Capitalist owners reduce their cost of ways because they are in competition with small companies so they lower wages causing the impoverishment of the proletariat.
Working class are forced to sell their labour because they don't own the means of production, so they have to sell their labour for wages.
Class Consciousness
According to Marx, it was inevitable that capitalist society would fail
By polarising the classes, bringing the proletariat together in ever-larger numbers, and driving down their wages, capitalism creates the conditions under the working-class causing them to develop a consciousness of their own economic and political interests in opposition of their exploiters.
Members of the working-class are aware of the need to overthrow capitalism. Making capitalism to create their own destruction
Alienation
- Workers are completely separated from and have no control over the forces of production
- The division of labours is at its most intense and detailed: the worker is reduced to an unskilled labourer mindlessly repeating a meaningless task.
The result of our loss of control over our labour and its products and therefore our separation from our true nature.
Ideology
The institutions produce and spread ideas such as religion, education and the media all serve the dominant class by producing ideologies
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Evaluation
Strengths
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Highlights the inequalities in society - explains the uneven distribution of power and wealth between classes
Weaknesses
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Too simplistic as it has a one dimensional view of inequality - he sees class as the only important division. He ignores that age, ethnicity and gender also have major problems with inequalities as well
Ruling Class
Large business owners and the Government make up a part of the 'ruling class' and they use their power to protect the capitalism system
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