Thank God It's Over

Before this class the only thing I really knew about Karl Marx, was the book he wrote common sense. Sophomore year of high school in history we briefly talked about Marx and some of his ideas about the different classes amongst society. When you first assigned the reading in the text book about Marx, as I was reading I couldn’t help to feel stupid. I must have read that essay about a hundred times and still I couldn’t understand what he was t saying. Even when we had to do the group assignment and just interpret one paragraph I felt the same way; and that was only one paragraph.

When we got to Gramsci I guess I understood a little bit better about his ideas and Marx’s ideas. The good news is that after discussing Marx, Gramsci, and Williams I finally understood the main points of each theorists a lot better. I especially got what Marx was trying to say. What really help me out was all the reading we did in realation to Marx, for instance the story about Rudolph and the Sarah Cole story. When I read the story about Sarah Cole it was easy to understand that there was a big difference between their places in society. The part in story when she went to his apartment for the first time and she says that they are both different .She was talking about the fact that she was poor and Ron was rich.

What I learned was that it is easy to relate Marx to a lot of literature, for instance the book Great Expectations or Anna Karenina. I also learned about hegemony, and what power meant to Gramsci and Marx. It was a real challenging section in this course to get through, thank god it’s over.