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'''Marxist Criticism'''<br />
'''Marxist Criticism'''<br />
Definition<br />
Marxist criticism was developed by Karl Marx and influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This literary criticism is written in an attempt to reveal ways in which the socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of our experience. It uses material dialect, which is what drives the historical change in the material realities of the economic based society rather than just using the ideological superstructures, such as law, philosophy, politics and art built upon that economic base <ref>Brizee, Allen;Tompkins, J.Case [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/722/ “Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism”]Accessed July 7, 2014</ref>. <br />
Marxist Criticisms are based on the theories of [[Karl Marx]].  The writings of [[Leon Trotsky]]’s ''Literature and Revolution'', and [[Georg Lukács]]’ ''The Ideology of Modernism'', are available to assist with the understanding of Marxist Criticism in literature<ref>Brizee, Allen;Tompkins, J.Case [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/722/ “Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism”]Accessed July 7, 2014</ref>. <br />
Marxist Criticisms are based on the theories of [[Karl Marx]].  The writings of [[Leon Trotsky]]’s ''Literature and Revolution'', and [[Georg Lukács]]’ ''The Ideology of Modernism'', are available to assist with the understanding of Marxist Criticism in literature<ref>Brizee, Allen;Tompkins, J.Case [https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/722/ “Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism”]Accessed July 7, 2014</ref>. <br />


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