RE220 Lecture Notes - Frankfurt School, Max Horkheimer, Heteronormativity
Document Summary
Historical materialism: marxist theory, how we get materials needed to live, is the center of civilization and society. Modes of production the center of historical civilization. Agriculture tended to be self-sufficient, trading only when necessary industrialization factory system. Buying raw materials to create finished product. Workers produce, but to acquire it, must buy it: capitalism stems off this system. Everything in society is a superstructure to support the mode of production: education, government, religion, art (media) Superstructures create ideology: wrote about this when industrialization is big in european society, capitalism, convinces people that mode of production is good starting to develop factory system allows one capitalist to employ many people. Many people coming from agricultural context to move towards the factories: urbanization starts to occur (result of capitalism, marx has problems with capitalism. Neomarxist takes his theories and applies it to culture, not just economics. Gramsci: marxist, part of italian communist party, fascism.
