In this Presentation I talk about the Marxism this the special reference of Chakrahvyuh movies song. Definition of Marxism The Communist Manifesto Das Capital Basic Principle Dialectical Aspect in Marxism Assumption Ideology Questions

1. Marxist Criticism

2.  Name : Dodiya Mehul Maheshbhai
 Roll No : 23
 Enrolment No : 2069108420180011
 Class : M.A. Sem 2
 Year : 2017/19
 Submitted to : Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of
English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University, Bhavnagar

3.  Begin in the 19th Century as a pragmatic view of history that offered the
working classes of society on opportunity to change their world.
 The German philosopher Karl Marx and the German Sociologist
Friedrich Engels are the founding Father of this school of Criticism.
 In 1848, they jointly wrote the Communist Manifesto, Which is still in
vogue. Marxist Criticism is not
interested in solving individual
problems, or Attaining
individual salvation.
 Marx’s famous Maxims were,
“nothing human is alien to me’
and ‘one must doubt of
everything.’

4.  Marxism is a materialist philosophy. It supports a naturalist as oppose
to super naturalist world view.
 It is opposed to idealist philosophy which conceptualizes a spiritual
world elsewhere that influences and controls the material world.
 Karl Marx himself has commented on his revolutionary nature of
Marxism,
“The Philosophy have only interpreted the world in various way; the
point is to change it.”
it is true that while other philosophies tried to understand the
world, Marxism tried to change it.

5. “The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels, in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role
in understanding society’s allegedly inevitable development from
Bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist ultimately
classless Society”
Definition of terms
1. Bourgeoisie : the name is given by Marx, to the owns of the
means of productions in a society.
2. Ideology : A belief system
3. Proletariat : the name is given by Marx, to the worker(Labor)
in the society.
4. Capitalism : is an economic system that is based on private
ownership of the means of production and the creation of
goods and services for profit.

8.  It is written by Marx and
Engels.
 States that the history of all
existing societies is the
history of class struggle.
 They declare that the
capitalists or the bourgeoisie
had successfully enslaved the
working class, or the
proletariat through economic
policies and production of
goods.

9.  History became the basic for 20th
century Marxism, Socialism, and
Communism.
 History and understanding of
people and their actions and
beliefs is determined by
economic conditions.
 Marx maintains that an intricate
web of social relationships
emerges when any group of
people engage in the production
of goods.
 The ideology of a society such as
the beliefs, values and culture is
determined by the upper class.
 The rich became richer, while
the poor became poorer.

10.  Society progresses through the struggle between
opposing forces. It is this struggle between opposing
classes that result in social transformation.
 During the Feudal period the tension was between the
Feudal Lords and Peasants and in the peasants and in
the Industrial age the struggle was between the
capitalist class and the industrial working class.
 This confrontation, according to Marx, will finally
result in replacing the system by Socialism.

11.  Another important concept used by
Marx was the Dialectic. (early 18th cent,
using by Hegel)
 Hegel believed that the world is governed
by thought and material existence is the
expression of an immaterial spiritual
essence but Karl Marx used the same
concept to interpret the progress the
material world.
 Marx argued that all mental (ideological)
system are Products of real social and
Economic existence. Marxist dialectic
can be understood as the science of the
general and abstract Laws of
development of nature, society and
thought.
 Dialectical materialism was an effective
tool in the hand of Marxists in revealing
the secrets behind the social progresses
and their future course of development.

12.  One of the fundamental concept of classical Marxist
thought is the concept of Base and Superstructure, which
refer to the relationship between the Material means of
production and the cultural world of art and ideas.
 Base : engenders and control all human institutions and
ideologies.
 Superstructure : all social and legal institution, political
and educational systems, religious and art.
 It is essentially a symbolic concept which employed the
structure of a building to explain this relationship.
 The foundation or the base stands for the socio-economic
relations and the mode of production and the
superstructure stands for art, law, Political, religion and
ideology.

13.  Expressed by the author as
evidenced through his or her
fictional world and how this
ideology interacts with the reader’s
personal ideology.
 Expose class conflict with the
dominant class and its ideology
being imposed.
 The task of the critic is to uncover
the ideology and show how such a
destructive ideology entraps the
working classes and oppresses them
in every area of their lives.
 A critic may begin by showing how
an author’s text reflects his or her
ideology through an examination of
the fictional world’s characters.

14.  Marxism is not primarily a literary theory that can be
used to interpret a text.
 It is a set of social, economic and political ideas that its
followers believe will enable them to interpret and
more importantly change the word..
 Marxism is not spiritual but it is Material.
 In order to understand ourselves and our world, we
must first acknowledge the interrelatedness of all our
actions within the society.
 It is our cultural and our social circumstances that
determine who we are.

15.  The structure of our society is built on a series of on
going conflicts between social classes.
 Capitalists control the society’s ideology or social
consciousness. (hegemony)
 The focus of literature is the relationship of a society’s
superstructure to other elements and to the base.
 Marxism addresses the cry of working class.