KS100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Friedrich Engels
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Philosophers and ideologies: karl marx and friedrich engels. He said culture is a product in some sense of the economic base. The culture existing within a given society is determined by the economic system of that society. Differences of culture are a product of the different social classes created by capitalism. In order to change society, it is essential to change the economic system. Marxist - we are in a state of false consciousness. The only way out of the state of false consciousness is the elimination of our social stability; ideology will cease to function. Capitalist society is changing rapidly with perpetual production of new commodities, new. The profit being made ensured standardization of products markets, new forms of labour, new social conditions. All values risk becoming obsolete; everything transcendent is relativized assert that culture industry eradicates autonomous thinking and criticism, serving to preserve the reigning order.
