Marxism

Strengths

• advocated for social and economic change

• past revolutions in capitalist can be understood

• the claims remain relevant to society

Weaknesses

• ignores the influence of other factors on social inequality like ethnicity, religion and gender

• communism is not always a positive method of government eg. USSR

• it is too idealistic and simplistic

• overly negative view of society -functionalists

• overlooks further social division -feminism

  Key ideas

  Is a key conflict theory that believes capitalist societies are built on inequality between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat

  Economy is the base of society and whoever controls it has the most power

  The proletariat are unaware of how they are exploited and would for a Communist society of they knew