Understanding Marxism Through Literature.
The paper talks about Marxist analysis of ‘Othello, the Moor of Venice’ which will reveal how this literary work mirrors all ways in which individual subjects are subjects of material/historical circumtances and of the repressive ideologies that serve to blind us to the ruling power system. Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist,journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and his work has been both lauded and criticized. Marx is typically cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science. Marx's theories about society, economics and politics—collectively understood as Marxism—hold that human societies develop through class struggle. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable th...