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Structuralism and Marxism
Literary Analysis
Marxism
Analyze the space above from a Marxist perspective? What signifiers do you see? What do they signify?
Panopticon
Marxism and Literature
- What class structures are established?
- What characters or groups control the economic means of production?
- What class conflicts are exhibited?
- What characters are oppressed?
- Does the work suggest a solution to class conflicts?
- What is the dominant ideology revealed in the text?
Important Terminology
Tenets of Marxism
Dialectical materialism
- a worldview contending that our ideas and concepts about ourselves are fashioned in everyday discourse in the language of real life and not derived from any spiritual reality
Economic Base
- the means of production
Superstructure-
arises from the base and is composed of human institutions (social, legal, cultural, political, etc.)
Marxism Versus Capitalism
- To understand the basic tenets of Marxism
What is Marxism?
What is capitalism?
- To examine how linguistic/cultural systems perpetuate hegemony
Power Dynamic
Who has power in a capitalistic society?
How do they retain power?
Superstructure
Ideology-
Bourgeoisie's ruling ideas, customs, and practices
How does private property influence other elements of the superstructure (legal system, political system, educational system, job market)?
Ideological State Apparatus
Considering what we have learned about how capitalist ideology is promulgated through society, what would a "marxist" society look like? How would it differ from what we know?
Games?
Politics?
Justice System?
Police?
- To review and apply the principles of structuralism/deconstruction/Marxism to Le Guin's novel
Example
What is Communism?
Binary Opposition
Capitalism Marxism
Marxism and Class
Bourgeoisie
Super Structure
Proletariat