Marxism is a theory of government and economics developed by the political philosopher Karl Marx.
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How are workers exploited when they have a choice in working for a boss?
Under Marxist theory, workers are being exploited for their labor and not receiving the full value of their labor. Workers however have a choice in who they work for and how much they earn so how can it be called exploitation? If it because they…
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Who are the most prominent post-Marx thinkers within Marxism?
I'm becoming more interested in Marxism, and the ensuing economies that attempted to use Marxist thought. What I wonder is, which post-Marx, modern thinkers have most successfully built on Marxist thought?
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Was Marx a defender of capitalism?
I have studied Marx in a lot of subjects in the school, such as History, Sociology, Economy and Political Sciences. The bad side of this is that each professor told me different things about Marx.
Was he a defendor of capitalism and just…
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Marx's Alienated Labor in Relation to Man
Recently I have been reading Marx's manuscripts of philosophy and communist ideals. He explains alienated labor in a capitalist society as being degrading to the laborer and thereby rendering the object of his work alienated from him, as he doesn't…
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Could there be revolutions in socialist countries?
Marxism states that communism is the ultimate social form.
A revolution, in my present understanding, is that one class overruns another, something like changing from a feudal to capitalist society, or changing from a capitalist to socialist…
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Adorno and identity politics
People on the political right like to throw around the phrase "cultural Marxism" as a label for identity politics, feminism, intersectionality etc. Evidently its a reference to the Frankfurt school, which is supposed to have infected post-war…
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Can the communist revolution be blamed for the violence of the USSR?
Can the communist revolution be blamed for the violence of the USSR?
Obviously communists claim that there was a "counter-revolution", so for the sake of the question, let's assume that Communism is not Stalinism.
One way to answer the question, is…
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Does Jameson define "narrative" anywhere?
Does Jameson define "narrative" anywhere? I've read the political unconscious, and just ordered a study of him, and I would probably agree that narratives embody social reality, but am unclear what counts as a narrative.
Examples in the secondary…
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What does object oriented philosophy say about commodity fetishism?
What does object oriented philosophy say about commodity fetishism?
I thought the essence of fetishism was how, in his alienation from the means of production, what we are and make seems to become an object or thing, rather than something made by a…
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Why is Slavoj Zizek considered a Marxist?
Not that I have read any of his books but I've watched the documentary and several of his magazine articles and he totally seems like a centrist. On some subjects (like Islam/immigration) maybe even slightly right of center.
Why is he considered a…
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