Category: Marxism

William Shakespeare as a Marxist The Marxist literary lens analyzes literature by understanding the historical conditions and factors that produce it and the structural cause of society behind it. This style of criticism is concerned with the interactions of societal levels and social relations, and how class struggle, oppression, and inequality are portrayed (Eagleton 18).…

Essay on Marxism in ‘The Great Gatsby’ Fitzgeralds characters represent Marxist ideas, through his representation of the different classes, and his interpretation of how their class defines their life. Fitzgerald set this story during post-World War I, where both he, Carraway and Gatsby all fought in. However, it doesnt mark the active capitalist culture it…

Marxism in Toni Morrisons Recitatif Marxism is an ideology that has been around since the year 1917. Created by Karl Marx himself, Marxism revolves around the idea of economics and how it relates to class. Terry Eagleton who wrote the article Marxism and Literary Criticism defined Marxism as a scientific theory of human societies and…

Is Marxism Still Relevant Today? Essay Some of Marxs ideas can be really thought-provoking. They strongly challenge some of the things about capitalism we never really think about but just blindly follow to this day. Before beginning to answer the question, I think it is important to ask, Who is Karl Marx, what were his…

Marxism and the Welfare State Marxism is a social, political, and economical system of thought, named after German philosopher, Karl Marx, but it only came into existence after his death in 1883. It looks at the impact of free enterprise on work, productivity, and financial development and contends for a worker revolution to collapse a…

Karl Marx Modernism The relationship between art and politics has been re-discussed in recent years in connection with the change in perception brought about by the debate of modernism/postmodernism. The discourse that pure modernism is an autonomous nature of art and therefore should not mediate politics (as well as morality, religion, and tradition) in non-art…

Analysis of Marxist Theory within Frostpunk Frostpunk is a city-building survival video game in which you take the role of a leader in an alternative history of the 19th century. The world has been plunged into a volcanic winter, the player is required to manage resources, assign work, and make tough decisions all so that…

Critical Assessment of the Merits of Marxism Marxism is the political and economic theories put forward by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis of communism. It is of interest to me given the stigma attached to it, largely due to past regimes claiming to be Marxist but…