Marxism depicts how class is used to define society and how it perpetuates a specific cycle between those who are fortunate and those who are less fortunate. 

QUESTIONS THAT THE THEORY ASKS:

• How does Marxism provide an understanding of economics?
• How does ideology play a role?
• What role does Alienation play?
• How is the world in which we live, a superstructure?

-These questions are important because they break down what Marxism is and what it means to have a Marxist critique of something. Marxism provides an understanding of economics because it allows for one to look at power plays, and systems within the Govt., and decide for themselves how those systems affects them. Looking at how ideology plays a role in Marxism is important because one would be able to depict which belief system Marxism perpetuates. Ideology is a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence, and being able to look at the power structures in the Govt, with this in mind, opens an understanding.  Alienation is important because not everyone can afford the same luxury and if we look at many of the different factors preventing this within our society, it will help with the understanding. Looking at the ways in which we live in a superstructure and the negative/positive affects of that is important because we are able to take the different cultures in society and look at or closely examine how those societies are kept in place/what underlying causes are keeping them in place.

TWO THEORISTS:

1.) Tyson explores Marxism and the points that it makes by providing a close view/psychoanalytic view of Marxism itself.

2.) Karl Marx believes that all belief systems are a product of cultural conditioning. In other words, all beliefs are conditioned therefore adding to a box of something being one or the other, and these beliefs in a sense are a predisposition in society.