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MARXIST

CRITICISM
Marxist literary criticism is a loose
term describing literary criticism
based on socialist and dialectic
theories. It views literary works as
reflections of the social institutions.
It focuses on how literary works are products
of the economic and ideological determinants
specific to that era. Critics examine the
relationship of a literary product to the actual
economic and social reality of its time and
place (Class stratification, class relations, and
dominant ideology).
WHO IS THE
PROPONENT OF
MARXISM THEORY?
Marxism Theory originates from
the works of 19th-century German
philosophers Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels.
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 in
Trier – 14 March 1883 in London) was a
German political thinker who wrote
about economics and politics. Marx
thought that if a place that works
together runs on wage-labor, then there
would always be class struggle.
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 in
Trier – 14 March 1883 in London) was a
German political thinker who wrote
about economics and politics. Marx
thought that if a place that works
together runs on wage-labor, then there
would always be class struggle.
THEORY OF
MARXISM
Marxism is a social, political, and economic
theory originated by Karl Marx, which
focuses on the struggle between capitalists
and the working class. He believed that this
conflict would ultimately lead to a revolution
in which the working class would overthrow
the capitalist class and seize control of the
economy.
Marxists believe that if the working class makes
itself the ruling class, and destroys the basis for class
society (private property, or what Marx called
"Bourgeois Property"), there will be a "classless
society." In a Marxist society, no social classes are in
conflict, and there is no government anymore. In this
theory, those who own property and the means of
production are the bourgeois while working class is
called proletariat.
GOALS OF
MARXIST
CRITICISM
• an assessment of the political
'tendency' of a literary work,
determining whether its social content
or its literary form are 'progressive'.
• analyzing the class constructs
demonstrated in the literature.

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