Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Criticisms of Marxism
- Economic determinist
- Reductionist theory
- All major ideas are seen to be the product of economic relationships
- Conflicts around nationalism, ethnicity and gender
cannot be explained adequately in economic terms
- Marx's predictions
- "Communism would replace capitalism"
- Have NOT come true!!
- Standard of living
- For the working class has risen
- Growth of the Middle class
- Communism rejected!
- In Eastern Europe
- Western class-based capitalist societies
- May experience problems such as poverty and
homelessness, but they have a good record in
terms of democracy and trade union rights.
- "Falsely conscious"
- The working class may be reconciled to
capitalism, rather than falsely conscious!
- Feminism
- Criticise Marxist analysis as "malestream"
- "Class exploitation" as they key issue, ignores other forms of
exploitation, such as gender and race."