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Marxism - Coggle Diagram
Marxism
Evaluation of Marxism
Oversimplified
Marx focuses solely on class division within society but Weber suggest that inequality can be caused by power and status independently of class strucutres.
Feminists would also argue that there is more inequality between genders then there is between classes.
The two class system is also over simplistic - it is currently suggested that there are 7 different classes within British society.
Economic Determinism
Marxi's whole system is based on economics, and the view that economic factors are the sole cause of everything in society, from inequality to social change.
Weber argues that Marxism completely ignores the role of ideas in social change - e.g. Calvinism's role in the rise of capitalism
Lack of Revolution
The biggest criticism of Marxism is that the revolution that he said would cause the development to a communist society has yet to occur and Marx was very vague on the conditions that would eventually lead to this revolution
Marx also suggested that revolution would occur in the most advance capitalist societies and yet it has been the most backward countried (Russia and Cuba) that have seen Marxist revolutions
Out of Date
Capiltalism has become as expoitative than it was during the industrial revolution.
Keynesian Economics has led to more government oversight of businesses and the devleopment of welfare states.
A number of social institutions have become autonomous from the bourgeoisie - e.g. the media have become critical of the elite.
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Key words
A conflict theory is a theory that suggests that society is in conflict between certain groups. In this case of Marxism the conflict between social classes.
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Proletariat means the workers who are the relations of production and are oppressed by the bourgeosie.
Alienation means the process whereby the worker is made to feel foreign to the products of his/her own labour
False Class Consciousness means the way that the proletariat led to believe their oppression by the bourgeoisie is normal and that if they work hard they can become the bourgeoisie.