This document outlines the key figures, works, and concepts in Marxism and its application to literary criticism. It discusses how Karl Marx and Frederick Engels established Marxist principles in works like The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. It also describes how later thinkers like Lenin, Trotsky, and the Frankfurt School applied and developed Marxist literary criticism and analysis of culture. Key terms discussed include alienation, bourgeoisie, capital, and dialectical materialism.

1. MARXISM

2. Karl Marx
 Frederick Engels (Collaborator)
 Lenin and Trotsky who led the 1917 October Russian Revolution.
 Capitalist vs Labour
 political and economic relation with literature.
 Communist Manifesto (1848)
 Das Kapital (1867)
 1917, the Russian Revolution

3. The Frankfurt School
 Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
 György Lukács
 Walter Benjamin
 Theodore Adorno
 Louis Althusser

4.  Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton
 Frederic Jameson – Political Unconsciousness
 MARXISM AND LITERARY CRITICISM, BY TERRY EAGLETON (1976)
 MARXISM AND LITERATURE, BY RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1977)

5. Terms
 Alienation
 Bourgeoisie
 Capital
 Capitalism
 Commodity
 Proletariat
 Communism
 Dialectical materialism
 Commitment
 Dilectic

6. Different b/w marxism and other
 Other theories tries to undrstand world while marxism tries to change it.
 William Rhymonds - Social realism – raymond williams – partinost -
narodnost - klassovast –
 Walter benjamin – art as social production
 Louis Althussar – “Ideology and ideological state apparatuis”
 Ideology interpellates individuals and make them unwittingly
participates own oppression
 Hated kafka, bretched, bekket –
 overdetermination - rhymond williams

7.  Cultural industry – Theoder Adorno in “Dialectic of Enlightenment”
 Late capitalism
 Consumerism
 Mall culture
 Super structure
 Base