MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes -Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Late Capitalism
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Marxist media scholars looks at the effects of ownership and economics on the production and distribution of media content interested in how this notion of media content as product in turn shapes the way it looks and circulates. Marxism: a theory and a social and political movement rooted in the idea that society is the history of class struggles the german ideology in 1845 and communist manifesto in 1848. Origin lie in the work of karl marx and friedrich engels. Karl marx born in prussia in 1818 the mode of production in society (or underlying economic structure) determines the social relations of production (or class structure) Historical materialism: the underlying method of marxism the material world precedes human thought: that the external, concrete, material conditions of social existence determine or ground consciousness. Materialist superstructure: social consciousness, as encoded in institutions such as culture, art and media, religion, education, politics, and the judicial system.
