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MARXISM

DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES


LEARNING COMPETENCY

•The learners analyze


the basic concepts and
principles of Marxism
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•Critical social science is not
only to discover laws that
explain human behavior and
Critical social phenomena but also to
Social help people understand
why social inequalities
Science exist so that they can do
something to address
these inequalities.
Marxism
• Marxism, one of the theoretical approaches under
critical social science, refers to the political and
economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in
which the concept of class struggle plays an important
role in abolishing class oppression.
• It views social order as being a product of coercion and
power being exercised by the more powerful group
(bourgeoisie) to the disadvantage group (proletariat).
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Capitalism
•Karl Marx is against the idea of
private ownership, and the
system in which capitalists own
the means of production.
•Class Conflict or Class Struggle –
conflict between entire classes over
the distribution of a society’s
wealth and power
•Social Inequalities – the existence of unequal
opportunities and rewards for different social
positions or statuses within a group or society.
Dimensions: Income, wealth, power,
occupational prestige, schooling, ancestry, and
race and ethnicity
INCLUDE: income gap, gender inequality,
health care, social class
Basic Concepts of Marxism
• Alienation. It means separation from one’s
true or necessary nature, and the idea was
used by Marxists to describe the process by
which labor is reduced to being a mere
commodity under capitalism.
• From proletariats’ labor, workers are
expected to produce surplus, or the amount
of resources that exceeds the portion that is
needed, which can be utilized as a profit.
Do we still experience alienation today?
•The worker is bound to unwanted labour as a
means of survival, labour is not "voluntary but
coerced" (forced labor).
• If a child in school cannot afford the “new/latest”
gadgets such as an iPad, iPhone, or gaming
systems they will be alienated from the rest of
their peers because the child does not have the
latest things and will be looked at differently.
• Surplus value. The value
that extracted from the
labor of the proletariat by
the mechanism of
capitalist exploitation.
Through capitalism, the
bourgeoisie was able to
exploit by paying them
less than the value of their
labor to produce the profit.
How do you know that you have
been underpaid?
What are the situations
wherein farmers are being
exploited?
• False consciousness. When members of
the working class are deceived from their
true class position when they fail to realize
their class oppression. This false
consciousness is said to cause workers to
disregard the true nature of oppression
because of the belief in the possibility of
upward mobility.
• Marx uses the term "praxis" to refer to the free,
universal, creative and self-creative activity
through which man creates and changes his
historical world and himself. Praxis is an
activity unique to man, which distinguishes him
from all other beings.

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