Marxist

• Didn’t like capitalism or social class system

• Huge gaps in wealth

• Used capitalism to keep the rich-rich and the poor-poor

• Capitalism- small minority of society owns the means of production

• This minority is the bourgeoisie

• They rule the proletariat and exploit them

• Industrial Revolution

Main criticisms Ao3

• Functionalists criticise Marx for over emphasising conflict

• Ignored the role of women

• What revolution?

Karl Marx

• Invented Marxism

• One of the most important

Althusser

• Ideological state apparatus- our ideas are run by bourgeoise

Definitions

Proletariat- working class

Bourgeoisie- the ruling class

Profit- earning more money from selling the product than actually making or buying it

Means of production- factories + info

Exploitation- treating someone unfairly in order to benefit their work

Alienation- lose sense of humanity as jobs become their life

Ideology- way of controlling our ideas

Ideological state apparatus- institutions that spread bourgeoisie ideology enduring the proletariat stay in the state of false class consciousness

False class consciousness- working class don’t know they are being exploited

Capitalism- bourgeoisie own means of production