Post Marxism

Post-Marxism

1) Post-Marxists acknowledge that there is no necessary correspondence between economics and culture, and that the cultural realm has a presence and power of its own separate from the economic base. (sometimes?)

2) They recognize that there has been a transition from a society of commodity production to a society of consumption and the re-production of images and information. (Production has been outsourced - part of global community)

3) Post-Marxists follow Foucault in observing that power is not a force located within a single group, class or action, but it permeates all our lives "from the bottom up".

(some have more than others)

4) They hold a fragmented view of class, arguing that gender, ethnic, religious or sexual identities cut across and fracture the Marxist notion of social class.

5) They recognize that the expression or representation of these "sub-cultural" identities constitutes new sites of oppression and struggle that serve to replace traditional class politics.

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