A brief summary on marxism
Marxism is a socio-economic ideology developed by Karl Marx, a German philosopher who believed that history is determined by struggle between social classes. According to Marx, society is composed of the bourgeoisie (dominating class that owns the tools of production) and the proletariat (working class). He believed that capitalism survived on this dichotomy and that the bourgeoisie exploited the labor of the proletariat. Marx envisioned the future where class divisions would end in a communist revolution and be replaced by a classless society. Marx also did not see war as a matter of state affairs but a result of conflict between classes. War was to Marx an indication of the disease of the capitalist system, and he believed in neutrality. Marx extended his research from economics to culture in asserting that art and literature are shaped by economic and historical forces. Even seemingly unrelated cultural works, like poetry, are shaped by the economic conditions of their time. Cultur...