Marxism: A New Perspective

Marxism Criticism could only be described as a very complex labyrinth, containing class-consciousness and hegemony at every turn. But due to the shear extent of concepts, such as the proletariat and the revolution that was destined to happen between the dominant groups. It’s hard to fit these ideals onto a modern perspective without feeling we are all batteries for machines like in The Matrix. Although Marxism Criticism introduces a new literary perspective of works, it also dampers them, when one reads a Dr. Sues book, there not trying to find the concepts of who is and who isn’t a proletariat. But rather they want to enjoy a simples children’s story and not think about the complex relationship it has in their life. In my opinion, Marxist Criticism is an attempt to find real life situations and events in the fictional world. Whether that is to be considered a right or wrong choice or ideology is not important, but rather is opens the door for another perspective of thought and that is a major accomplishment.

Some aspects of what was read and discussed in class must have been Sarah Cole and how the roles of dominant and non-dominant were intermingled and symbolized in its characters of Ron and Sarah. Another would have to be Grimsci’s concept of hegemony because it questioned fundamental Marxist ideals. I’d also have to say that there were no non-interesting aspects of Marxism, although at times running a little stagnant, they had all made an interesting and complex fit to one another. The only true criticism I’d have would be writing the Marxist Criticism essay, because I’ve never written one before, so it was hard to figure out what was and wasn’t symbols of Marxist concepts so there was always the fear I wasn’t adhering to Marxist principles.