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  2. Marxist cultural analysis - Wikipedia

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    The term "Marxism" encompasses multiple "overlapping and antagonistic traditions" inspired by the work of Karl Marx, and it does not have any authoritative definition. [12] [13] The most influential texts for cultural studies are (arguably) the "Thesis on Feuerbach" and the 1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. [14]

  3. Historical materialism - Wikipedia

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    Many writers note that historical materialism represented a revolution in human thought, and a break from previous ways of understanding the underlying basis of change within various human societies. As Marx puts it, "a coherence arises in human history" [41] because each generation inherits the productive forces developed previously and in ...

  4. Marxist schools of thought - Wikipedia

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    Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that originates in the works of 19th century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.Marxism analyzes and critiques the development of class society and especially of capitalism as well as the role of class struggles in systemic, economic, social and political change.

  5. Marvin Harris - Wikipedia

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    In his work, he combined Karl Marx's emphasis on the forces of production with Thomas Malthus's insights on the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system. Labeling demographic and production factors as infrastructure, Harris posited these factors as key in determining a society's social structure and culture.

  6. Karl Marx - Wikipedia

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    Marx's critiques of history, society and political economy hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In the capitalist mode of production , this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie ) that control the means of production and the working classes (known as the proletariat ) that ...

  7. Marxist sociology - Wikipedia

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    Marx himself has been considered a founding father of sociology. The foundational basis of Marxist sociology is the investigation of capitalist stratification . An important concept of Marxist sociology is "a form of conflict theory associated with…Marxism's objective of developing a positive ( empirical ) science of capitalist society as ...

  8. Dialectical materialism - Wikipedia

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    György Lukács, Minister of Culture in the brief Béla Kun government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919), published History and Class Consciousness (1923), in which he defined dialectical materialism as the knowledge of society as a whole, knowledge which, in itself, was the class consciousness of the proletariat.

  9. The Communist Manifesto - Wikipedia

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    The text is the first and most systematic attempt by Marx and Engels to codify for wide consumption the historical materialist idea that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles", in which social classes are defined by the relationship of people to the means of production.