Marxist humanists

When Marx talked about fetishism, he was talking about the way we relation between producers and capitalist society. The word fetishism was used to describe the practices of religions that should be magical powers to objects like idols or charms. From Marx’s money and commodities, people think that they have mystical powers, but the powers come from us from own creative labor. If we take a look inside a workplace it could be any place of work a capitalist factory, a peasant commune, or a family farm

False consciousness is sociological concept that I can personally identify with the most. False consciousness acording to the text book is a condition in which people, usually in groups that are relatively powerless, accept beliefs that work against their own self-interests. False consciousness has to do with myself because of my evangelical parents that defined my childhood due to their ideology and how so many of peers act against their self intrests due to a toxic ideology given to them by the

William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper” of Songs of Innocence draws a crude image of late 18th and early 19th century where children labors helplessly surrender themselves at the feet of capitalists. This paper aspires to analyze “The Chimney Sweeper” from Althusserian view of Interpellation as we see, different chimney sweepers, forgetting their own identity and pleasure, conform to the rules and norms manipulated by their master. In the midst of flourishing industrialization of late 18th century

there have been many different views on conflict theory and it has taken a multitude of different forms, it often seems that the Marxian theory is the one that represents the predominant example of conflict theory in sociological literature. The Marxist theory of conflict argues that  there is a huge difference between social

ideology in which value is placed on the inherent value of an object rather than its market value.  In a late collection of notes, Fitzgerald himself proclaims that he is "essentially Marxist." [i]   Marxism is a specific branch of Socialist theory.  Fitzgerald makes Gatsby a novel that is not inherently Marxist or even Socialist, but one that is

to parts of the African continent for its riches in natural resources. The idea that “Imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism”, expressed by Vladimir Lenin, a proponent of Marxism, adds an important layer to a study of the novella using Marxist theory (Marxism: Essential Writings). A look at one small scene from Section III of the novel, in which the young Russian speaks about Kurtz to Marlowe, blatantly illustrates the treatment of the workforce by the ruling class: He had, as he

myself in my emotional defense. What I want to do is pull two separate and different works together and focus on the impact of gender in media and film. First I will summarize my position then address the two selected works. One work is from noted Marxist Louis Althusser where he points out eight different Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) of which I will focus on two for this writing, the family ISA and the culture ISA. The second is from noted Canadian activist and trans-gender

However, Abram’s call for individual’s responsibility of privacy by limiting access to certain information is impossible due to the very nature of social media. In Alice E Marwick and danah boyd’s 2014 article, Networked Privacy: How Teenagers Negotiate Context in Social Media, they argue that because social media is, as previously discussed by Werbin and Fuchs, a networked environment that thrives on sharing user-generated data (Marwick & boyd 1054). Furthermore, Marwick and boyd explain this argument

distinction between Marx's specific socio-economic and political agenda and the body of literary theory which emerged years later. Marxist literary criticism proceeds from the fundamental philosophical assumption that "consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence...Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life" (Marx 568-9). Marxist critics use this challenge to the notion of an innate, prefigured, individual human nature to reexamine the nature of creative or

This is my longer analysis of the Kingdom of Heaven. Appreciate any feedback. [SPOILER WARNING] The Kingdom of Heaven is an anti-religion humanist epic. The moral of the story is that humanism is better than religion. KOH uses a traditional storytelling formula designed to convince people to reject a particular belief or worldview. A sympathetic hero begins the story believing in the worldview the screenwriter wants to discredit. After seeing the worldview for what it really is (according to the