Marxist philosophy

Very few viewers of adverts decode images passively. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright argue that there are very few viewers who decode images passively because there is no mass culture. This is because each viewer has different contexts and social backgrounds meaning that the images they view can be decoded in various ways because of their frame of reference and background. However the subject of how audiences decode and view media including advertising can be seen in various different perspectives

With a world-centred approach, Louis Althusser’s Marxist notion of ideological state apparatuses demonstrates the influential dominance of the educational system and media. ‘Fahrenheit 451’ follows an enforcer of society’s ideological values despising the communicative ideological state apparatus (i.e. media) and forcibly tearing himself away from the ideologies enforced by both repressive and ideological state apparatuses. Complimentary to Marxist critical theory, Michel Foucault’s notion of poststructuralism

liberal-pluralist and Marxist approaches as well as the role of media in

Although there is a strong diverse controversy tied with the name of Karl Marx, he was concerned primarily with human freedom, stimulating the ancient concept of Communism, in which human beings might fulfill their cooperative roles within society, without the fear of exploitation. He saw the historical period of capitalism as the "menacing" antagonist of such freedom; menacing because unlike serfdom (the predecessor of capitalism in the evolution of social relations), capitalism enabled the illusion

Marxist views can be frequently spotted within William Blake’s works. The argument that “human interactions are economically driven and are based on a struggle for power between different social classes” is deeply rooted within the lines of Blake’s work. (Gardner, Pg. 146). In fact, “The Chimney Sweeper,” which was first published in 1789, a full half a century before Karl Marx first publicized his Marxist theory in 1848, has several instances of Marxist tones. Critic, Janet E. Gardner, argues that

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

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

(Ward, p.1). In this essay I will argue that although perhaps not inherently intentionally, both liberal and realism, in all of their forms, represent hegemonic ideology, and that this has been proven throughout history, and therefore support much of Marxist theory surrounding capitalism and the power of the bourgeoisie class, both on a domestic and global scale. Critical theorists share 4 assumptions: firstly they dispute realism in their belief that human nature is effected majorly by social changes