Marx suggests that there is no point in thinking without action... He calls the unification of thinking and action "praxis"
Marx wrote the communist manifesto, this outluined what he thought was a better way of organising society, Marxism led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
Capitalism is the society that we live in, Capitalism means that a few that are high in power are able to made the most profit, these are usually the people who are at the top of the ranks. This is a system which is based around individualism and so it makes us complete. We are taught to compete from school onwards
We are also taught to think that if your at the top of the jobs market it is because you deserve to be. We are lead to believe that competition is in human nature however back in primitive society we shared everything. this is now enforced in our modern culture to make us believe that competition is healthy so that we always better ourselves.
Marx argues that society has two distinct sections, the base and the superstructure, The base is where all the workers with the mains skill and tools, mainly the people who set the ground work and then you have the superstructure who are the people who deal with legal, political and cultural proberlems ... and this is what the ideological world we see today
Religeon is sometimes classed as the trap for the working class!, the ultimate form of mental control, The working class are taught that theres an honour in being poor because if you are moral and that youll be then rewarded for your morality in heaven.
Ideology usually emerges from the rulling class and there world view. The exploited class starts to think that this is also their world view.
Art has always been Ideological
Another thing that has happend with modern culture is that education is now something that teachs us to act and behave in a way that society wants us too. This is now used as a state apparatus.
The media reflects ideology thats in the world already and effects us all without us even knowing.
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