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    This document provides an overview of Marxism and Marxist literary criticism. It discusses: - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of Marxism who believed in state ownership over private ownership. - The basics of Marxism, including bringing about a classless society and seeing progress through class struggle. - Economic determinism and how the superstructure is shaped by the economic base. - How Marxist literary criticism examines how literature reflects material conditions and class struggles, and how it can reinforce or criticize ideologies. - Five methods of Marxist literary criticism: relating covert/overt content to class struggle; relating works to the author's class; explaining genres by social period; relating works to consumption

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    This document provides an overview of Marxism and Marxist literary criticism. It discusses: - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of Marxism who believed in state ownership over private ownership. - The basics of Marxism, including bringing about a classless society and seeing progress through class struggle. - Economic determinism and how the superstructure is shaped by the economic base. - How Marxist literary criticism examines how literature reflects material conditions and class struggles, and how it can reinforce or criticize ideologies. - Five methods of Marxist literary criticism: relating covert/overt content to class struggle; relating works to the author's class; explaining genres by social period; relating works to consumption

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    The key takeaways are that Marxism seeks to change the world by bringing about a classless society through the struggle between social classes, and that Marx and Engels were influential thinkers who developed communist ideas and wrote the Communist Manifesto.

    The basic ideas of Marxism according to the text are that it seeks to bring about a classless society and change the world rather than just understand it, and sees progress coming through the struggle for power between social classes.

    Karl Marx was a German philosopher and Friedrich Engels was a German sociologist. They met after Marx read one of Engel's articles and collaborated to develop communist ideas. They themselves called their theories 'Communism' and announced its advent in the Communist Manifesto of 1848 that they jointly wrote.

    M arxismo

    Proponents of
    Marxism
    Karl Marx
    He is a German Philosopher.
    Marx was the son of a lawyer
    but spent most of his life in
    great poverty as a political
    exile from Germany living in
    Britain
    Friedrich Engels
    He is a German Sociologist.

    Engels had left Germany in


    1842 to work in Manchester
    for his father's textile firm.
    They met after Marx had read an article by
    Engels in a journal to which they both
    contributed. They themselves called their
    economic theories 'Communism’ (rather than
    'Marxism’), designating their belief in the state
    ownership of industry, transport, etc., rather than
    private ownership.

    Marx and Engels announced the advent


    of Communism in their jointly-written
    Communist Manifesto of 1848.
    Basics of
    Marxism
    The aim of Marxism is to
    bring about a classless
    society.
    Other philosophies merely
    seek to understand the
    world, Marxism seeks to
    change it
    Marxism sees progress as
    coming about through the
    struggle for power between
    different social classes.
    Economic determinism
    The simplest Marxist model of society sees it as
    constituted by a base (the material means of
    production, distribution, and exchange) and a
    superstructure, which is the 'cultural' world of
    ideas, art, religion, law, and so on. The essential
    Marxist view is that the latter things are not
    'innocent', but are 'determined' (or shaped) by
    the nature of the economic base.
    Marxist Literary
    Criticism
    Marx and Engels did not put
    forward any comprehensive
    theory of literature.
    Literature is a product of the
    socioeconomic and hence ideological
    conditions of the time and place in
    which it was written, whether or not
    the author intended it so.
    In the struggles of the social class, a
    Marxist literature shows that wealth,
    opportunities, and education that are
    supposedly for every individual falls
    only to small amount of people.
    UC

    MC

    LC
    Literature reflects real material/ historical
    conditions that creates at least two
    possibilities of interest to Marxist critics:

    (1) the literary work might tend to


    reinforce in the reader the ideologies it
    embodies, or
    (2) it might invite the reader to criticize the
    ideologies it represents.
    What Marxist critics do

    1st
    They make a division between the 'overt' and
    'covert' content of a literary work and then
    relate the covert subject matter of the literary
    work to basic Marxist themes, such as class
    struggle, or the progression of society through
    various historical stages,
    What Marxist critics do

    2nd

    Relate the context of a work to the


    social-class status of the author.
    What Marxist critics do

    3rd
    Explain the nature of a whole literary
    genre in terms of the social period which
    'produced' it.
    What Marxist critics do

    4th
    relate the literary work to the social
    assumptions of the time in which it is
    'consumed'
    What Marxist critics do

    5th
    The 'politicisation of literary form', that is, the
    claim that literary forms are themselves
    determined by political circumstance.
    Sanlibong
    Sapatero
    ni Danilo R. dela Cruz

    1st method

    Pakikipangtunggali ng mga manggagawang


    uri laban sa mga kapitalista para sa kanilang
    karapatan.
    Sanlibong
    Sapatero
    ni Danilo R. dela Cruz

    2nd method

    May papel siyang ginampanan na may


    kaugnayan sa pamamahayag.
    Sanlibong
    Sapatero
    ni Danilo R. dela Cruz

    3rd method
    Dolan, R. E. (1990)
    In 1990 the industrial sector was inefficient and
    oligopolistic… a six-month Senate inquiry
    determined in 1990 that eight of the country's
    seventeen cement manufacturing companies
    were under control of a single firm.
    Sanlibong
    Sapatero
    ni Danilo R. dela Cruz

    4th method

    Bulalat Contributors, (2018)

    https://www.bulatlat.com/2018/0
    6/29/jolibee-refuses-regularize-
    workers-lays-off-400/
    Questions for further practice:
    Marxist approaches to other literary
    works

    How is the rigid class structure evident in


    _______________________ responsible for
    much of the story’s action and
    characterization? Would you say the story
    does or does not invite us to criticize the
    classism it represents?
    Questions for further practice:
    Marxist approaches to other literary
    works

    What can we learn from ______________


    about conspicuous consumption and
    commodification? How does the story use its
    representation of these capitalist realities to
    criticize class oppression?
    Questions for further practice:
    Marxist approaches to other literary
    works

    Describe the class system operating in the lives


    of the characters in _______________. In what
    ways does the story fail to criticize, and fail to
    invite us to criticize, the classism it depicts?
    Questions for further practice:
    Marxist approaches to other literary
    works

    How does _______________________ qualify


    as a Marxist critique of organized religion?

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