presentation on Marxism

1. Marxism: Theory of
class Conflict
• Name: Panchasara Jignesh k.
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• Paper No 4 : western Theory & film studies
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• Submitted To: S.B. Gardi Department of
English MKBU

2. Introduction▪
• The Marxist theory of classes and class struggle belong to the key
problems both of theory and political practice, strategy and
tactics of the working class.▪ It makes possible a scientific
analysis of each historical stage of social development, a
preliminary condition if the political struggle for the victory of
socialism is to have effective leadership.

3. Main Promise
• "The history of the hitherto existing society is the history of the class
struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild
master and journey man, in a word, oppressore and oppressed, stood in
constant opposition to one another, carried on uninterrupted, now
hidden and open fight, a fight that each time ended in a revolutionary
reconstitution of society at large, or in common ruin of the contending
classes.
"The communist manifesto, 1848

4. Karl Marx
• Karl Heinrich Marx was a German
philosopher, critic of political economy,
historian, sociologist, political theorist,
journalist and socialist revolutionary.
Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law
and philosophy at the universities of Bonn
and Berlin. He married Jenny von
Westphalen in 1843a

5. Friedrich Engels
• Friedrich Engels, sometimes anglicised
as Frederick Engels, was a German
philosopher, critic of political economy,
historian, political theorist and
revolutionary socialist.

6. The essential elements of Marxist
theories of world politics
Marx himself did write copiously about international affairs. However,
most of his writing was journalistic in nature. He provided little in terms
of a theoretical analysis of international relations.
Marx's ideas have been interpreted and appropriated in a number of
different and contradictory ways, resulting in a number of competing
schools of Marxism.

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• The third key element is the role of Class. In the Communist
Manifesto, it is argued that "the history of all hitherto existing
societies is the history of class struggle".
• The bourgeoisie(the capitalist)
The proletariat (the workers)

8. The essence of Marxist theory and class struggle
Marx regards classes and
class struggle as ahistorical
phenomenon which took
place at a given stage of
historical development.
▪ It resulted in a socialist
revolution and the
dictatorship of the
proletariat, conditions for
the extinction of classes and
the creation of classless
society.

9. The Idea of Class Conflict is central to
Marxian Thought
• Marxian sociology is often called "The sociology of class conflict".
• The idea of class war emerges from the theories of
 Dialectic materialism
 Materialistic interpretation of history
 Surplus value

10. War between Classes
• Marx says that according to the relentless law
of history, a particular class owns and controls
the means of production, and by virtue of this
exploits the rest of the people.
• The capitalist class makes use of the state as an
instrument of oppression and exploitation.
• Thus at every stage there are broadly two
classes:
The Exploiters (the owners of means of
production)
The exploited

11. Example:
• A Marxist theorist might argue
that Claudius killed his brother
King Hamlet in order to gain
political, social, and economic
power, and hence might be
viewed as a figure who is
corrupted by his desire for
social and political power.

12. Works cited
• Google Docs. 2021. Marxist Criticism. [online] Available at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dDC7Wm9xrg0zXBiS22ft
DGZXtvr8oBvAccJWWyUoYCk/edit
• 2021. [online] Available at:
https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-
content/uploads/2011/09/ENGL301-Marxist-Theory.pdf
• Karl Marx. 2021. Biography of Karl Marx. [online] Available at:
https://thegreatthinkers.org/marx/biography/

13. Thanks