Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Marxism
- Karl Marx
- Believed that there's a conflict
between ruling class and
subject class
- Capitalism is an economic system based on principles of
business- goods sold to make profit
- Working class are employed by the ruing class to make products for a wage,
which are sold to consumers for more than they cost to make which makes a
profit for RC
- RC= BOURGEOSIE
- WC= PROLETARIAT
- RC benefit at
expense of WC
- EVERYTHING BENEFITS CAPITALISM
- Engels
- Friend of Marx
- Evolutionary view of the family
- Early Stages
- Means of production
communally owned
- Era of primitive communism
- Early humans didn't own
property and lived in tribes
- Tribes= Promiscuous hordes
- Origins of today's nuclear family
- Lies in changes made to private property
- With rise of private property inheritance
became necessary- fathers needed to know who
their kids were to pass the property on
- Need for monogamy arose hence family created
- Family serves economy with
creation of ownership of property
- Accompanied by creation of state
- Ensuring the continuation and
legality of marriage and the family
- Main functions=
- Subordination of women
- Passing on private property from
one male generation to the next
- Criticisms
- Evidence of monogamous marriage
and nuclear family in hunter groups
- Idea of promiscuos hordes is possiblya
figment of Engels' imagination
- Eli Zaretsky
- Recent family life
- Family life split by
development of
industrial society
- Family important as it stands in
opposition to world of industry