Essays on Karl Marx

While semiotic deals with the analyzing signs within contexts, the ideological criticism deals with the system. Karl Marx puts excellent insight into ideology and class relations. According to Karl Marx’s theory, a society consists of the base and superstructure. The base comprises the forces and...

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times may appear simplistic on the surface. It comes off as a physical comedy viewed merely for laughs and nothing more. On the contrary, Chaplin’s film visually captures of Marx’s theory of alienation and how workers are exploited within a growing capitalistic...

Jonathan Z. Smith argues “religion is imposed from the outside” while the term itself is “created by scholars for their intellectual purposes” (Smith, 269). Two philosophers; Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx’s work can be applied to religion as a functional aspect of human life, describing...

Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber are our key theorists who with differing ideologies attempt to take on the causes of social inequality. Understanding concepts of social inequality requires a wide lensed perspective and this can be seen within these three theorists’ concepts. This...

Marxist Critical Theory is a politically-orientated criticism. It is derived from the theories of social philosopher Karl Marx.  A Marxist critic grounds their theory and practise in the economic and cultural theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and in doing so criticise literature in...

Global and national societies agree that there is a need for improvement in the social-economic system somehow yet they are also most often keen to dismiss and repudiate the ideologies of capitalism’s most famous and ambitious critics, Karl Marx. There is no surprise in that...

Adam Smith is known as the “Father of Capitalism” on the other hand his peer, Karl Marx, is known as the “Father of Communism. ” The thoughts of these two men differentiate as a general rule; however there is some similitude in the thinking behind...

To what extent is the film “The Breakfast Club” a microcosm of society, drawing on feminist and Marxist theories?Introduction John Hughes 1985 film The Breakfast Club follows five high school students in detention and the reasons behind their punishment along with the portrayal of their...

Karl Heinrich Marx, who is a standout amongst the most vital scholars in socialism, did his doctorate in philsophy however was not an expert thinker. The theme on which Karl Marx took a shot at is one of the real reasons for social clash, or,...

The concept of Conflict Theory has largely been in tandem to Karl Marx’s essay, Wage-Labor and Capital (1846). A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small. . . But let there arise next to the little house...