Marxism

Marxism is a socioeconomic theory regarding the idea that society is about the class struggles between the working class (proletariat) and the upper class (bourgeois). The class struggle arises when the bourgeois take advantage of the proletariat's labor for their own materialistic gain.

Background

Marxism is a term created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century. It is considered a materialistic ideology more than an idealist one since it conveys the idea that material values determine social existence rather than ideas. That being said since material values change over team, Marxism should be looked at in historical context. According to Marx's base/superstructure model that entails what society is made of, the economy (referring to labor, production, and distribution) lays the foundation for the cultural values of the social institutions: family, government, law, etc.

Uses in other disciplines

Marxism can be found in the subjects of economics and world history as it is one of many ways to run the economics of many countries.

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