MDSA01H3 Lecture : Marxism
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Roughly speaking marxist media scholars look at the effects of ownership and economics on the production and distribution of media context. Marxist scholars are interested in how this notion of media content as a product in turn shapes the way it looks and circulates. Marxism: a theory and both a social and political movement that is rooted in the idea that society is the history of class struggle . Origins are with karl marx and frederich engles. Marx"s theory was that the economic structure determines the class structure. To a marxist social consciousness, as encoded in institutions such as culture, education, politics and the judicial system, is referred to at the superstructure, reflects the material conditions of society, which he termed to be the economic base. For marx a society based on a capitalist mode of production is inherently exploitive because it creates two classes, a working class and a ruling class.
