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and contemporary contexts as a
setting for Woyzeck.
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Marxism is a collection of Karl Marx’s ideas, which were
added to by his closest collaborator, Frederick Engels, after
Marx’s death. This was subsequently added to and
enriched by the writings and living experience of Lenin and
Trotsky who led the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Marx’s ideas have recently become more popular. Having
been voted ‘the thinker of the Millennium’ in a BBC poll in
2000, Marx has now been taken up by university
professors and City analysts as offering one of the most
modern ways to understand globalised capitalism.
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• Believe that capitalism can only thrive on the exploitation
on the working class.
• Believe that there is a real contradiction between human
nature and the way that we must work in a capitalist
society.
• Have a dialectic approach to in life in that everything had
two sides.
• Believe that capitalism is not only an economic system
but is also a political system.
• Refer to the profit difference between what goods are
sold for and what they actually cost to make as a ‘surplus
profit’.
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• Believe that economic conflict produces class (lower,
middle and upper) and inherently class produces conflict.
• Describe the historical process of the class structure as
becoming increasingly polarised-pushed to two ends with
nothing in the middle. They claim that classes will soon
disappear and be absorbed into either the Bourgeoisie
(the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and
means of production) or the Proletariat (the working
class).
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• Believe that a key part into the control of the Proletariat is
the use of alienation in all aspects of society, including
the family, the education system and the media. This
provides the Bourgeoisie with a supple mass of workers
who don’t mind working for the external rewards of a
constant wage.
• Believe that deviance is any behaviour that differs from
the social norm. It’s seen as deviant because, as a
society, we do not accept it. Deviance can vary from
simply odd behaviour to behaviour that can harm society,
or is considered dangerous or disrespectful.
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• Woyzeck= college student who has been kicked out of his
parents’ house for knocking up Marie, and is close to being
kicked out of college.
• Andres= high school friend who is exceeding at college, and
so is fed up of Woyzeck’s poor grades/inability to work well.
• Captain= head professor at college, who is ensuring Woyzeck
does enough extra work to deserve to continue attending
college.
• Doctor= drug dealer testing new drug on Woyzeck, this is how
he makes his money to support Marie.
• Marie=high school dropout and kicked out of her parents’
house due to pregnancy, so lives with Woyzeck in a
motel/small council flat.
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