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marxism of inequality
what is capitalism
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1.Primitive Communism – People hunted, and most things were owned in commune
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3.Feudal Society – Warlords owned land, but peasants worked on it for their masters 4
- Capitalism – what we see today , where wealth is determined by goods or 'status items' and people work for these goods
society split into 2
PROLETARIAT- wages, who don't only means of production, and must sell their labour to survive, exploited and genuinely earn minimum wage
BOURGEOISE - capitalist who own the means of production, and most of the wealth in society they exploit proletariats and make massive profits
capitalism & worker
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Workers earn enough money to survive so think that they are doing well , when in reality they are working to support bourgeois
Marxists argue that if wealth created by workers was spread more evenly the standard of living of the population would be better as not a very small % would benefit e.g. Starbucks
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substructure theory
The owners of this substructure then become the ruling class because the can rule the Superstructure
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Inequality comes because of physical ownership of resources being concentrated by a small amount of people (the top 1%)
The 1% have so much influence due to their resources so that they can influence public policy and societies norms and values (therefore creating inequality)
How it affects workers- interests of the capitalist to control the workers so that they do not overthrow the wealthy and work for themselves. It's in the interest of workers to overthrow capitalism and create classless society where the working-class can look after themselves..
Workers are given false beliefs that society is fairly organized, and they willingly accept it
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They have so much influence they can have control over public policy They can help change laws to keep working class poorer – more dependent on them Working class are too afraid to argue this as they are in fear of being victimized
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reserve army of labour
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This can be seen as a reserve army of labour as it can be taken away at any time and workers are reliant on these upper classes
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critisisms
It is a very simplistic theory – some people are bosses so they must be opressing as others are reliant on them
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Popper (1945) suggests its based on assumptions and Karl Marx didn’t have any evidence to support his theory
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