LET’S

REVIEW
 MARXISM
REFERS TO THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
THEORIES OF KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH
ENGELS IN WHICH THE CONCEPT OF CLASS
STRUGGLE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN
ABOLISHING CLASS OPPRESSION.
MARXISM
•IS ONE OF THE THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN
SOCIAL SCIENCE THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH
CONFLICT THEORY, OR THE VIEW THAT SOCIETY IS
DIVIDED INTO SOCIAL CLASS WHICH ARE ALWAYS
IN CONFLICT WITH ONE ANOTHER.
•CENTRAL TO MARXISM IS THE IDEA OF HISTORICAL
MATERIALISM
•MARX BELIEVEDTHAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS SHAPED
BY THE MATERIAL OR ECONOMIC
ENVIRONMENT;HENCE HISTORY IS THE PRODUCT OF
MATERAIL CIRCUMTANCES.
Society divided into two distinct classes:

BOURGEOISIE 
CLASS OF
CAPITALISTS
(RULING CLASS)

Proletariat 
class of wage
labourers
(working class)
 HISTORICAL CONTEXT
DIFFERENT TYPES OF MARXISM
1.CLASSICAL MARXISM
2.ORTHODOX COMMUNISM
3.NEO-MARXISM OR MODERN MARXISM
CLASSICAL MARXISM
•REFERS TO A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
THAT EXPLAINS WHY SOCIALISM IS MEANT
TO TAKE THE PLACE OF CAPITALISM
(HEYWOOD,2007)
ORTHODOX COMMUNISM
•THIS WAS THE KIND OF COMMUNISM THAT
WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION STAGED BY THE BOLSHEVIK
PARTY LED BY VLADIMIR LENIN IN 1917, WHICH
BECAME THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN 1918.
NEO-MARXISM / MODERN MARXISM
•UPDATED AND REVISED FORM OF MARXISM WHICH REJECTS
DETERMINISM AND EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF
ECONOMICS AND THE PRIVILEGED STATUS OF PROLETARIAT
•THEY REJECTED ORTHODOX COMMUNISM
• REJECTED THE IDEA THAT CLASS STRUGGLE IS THE BEGINNING
AND END OF CLASS ANALYSIS
 ACTIVITY
•THE CLASS WILL LISTEN TO THE SONG “TATSULOK” BY
BAMBOO
•ANALYZE THE LYRICS AND SEE IF YOU CAN APPLY MARXISM TO
THE SYMBOLISMS AND MEANINGS FOUND IN THE SONG.
•REPORT YOUR OUTPUT IN CLASS.
LET’S WATCH
THIS
LET’S DO
THIS
 RUBRIC
CRITERIA DESCRIPTION POINTS POINTS
OBTAINED
CONTENT THE STUDENT WAS ABLE TO 10
GIVE EXAMPPLES OF
SYMBOLISMS AND MEANINGS
FROM THE SONG

ANALYSIS ANALYSIS WAS CLEAR AND 6

CONCISE AND THE STUDENT
WAS ABLE TO APPY MARXIST
IDEAS TO THE SONG
ORGANIZATION THE REPORT WAS WELL- 4
ORGANIZED TO THE AUDIENCE

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