I don't know what to do, so I'm just gonna' chat on about Maxism...

So recently on T.V, there has been a programme all about the Marxism ideas on society. This programme is called 'Masters of Money'


Now, surely half of you will have heard of Karl Marx, this man was sent to our country in 1849, his country no longer wanted him and England was the only country that would have him. Whilst Karl Marx was in prison he wrote a book on the capitalist ideas and how they dominate society. In his view, they should get rid of it.

Now into more detail...

Karl Marx believed that the capitalist society meant that all those born poor would die poor, and there were systems kept in place so this happened. Marx added to this idea that ideologies are used to lie and distort, to keep going of the unfair systems.

Here would be an example..

Years and years ago a house would have only cost you £10,000- £30,000 to buy, now once you've paid for that house it's yours, however, if you die and don't leave this house to the next of kin, the government will try by all means possible to take that house from you. So then you have to prove that a certain person lived in that house, just so it can then be yours.

So the capitalists are there to stop you getting better things in life. Another thing is Industrialization, the working class work on a minimum wage to make products for the bourgeoisie who then sell to the working class, making this like some form of circle that will go on and on and on.

A Marxist would argue that the media is a big cause of why the higher class maintain their influence over the workers. If it wasn't for the media, the riots wouldn't have spread so much and caused as much as it did.
Stereotyping also comes into this, the working class accept the status quo and then act in their own interest, if I was to bring a functionalist view into this, they would say stereotyping causes them to go on to commit crime and deviance.

I know this all sounds patched up and not written well, but I'd like to leave on explaining meritocracy.

The working class are lead to believe that if they try hard, they will be rewarded, this is not the case, people in the working class have to earn their place in the hierarchy, this is just a myth the bourgeoisie put into place so that the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich.

Enjoy. ;D