maxism

• Alienation, as defined by Marx, is the loss of power and control in the labour process and the products they produce.
• Work, according to Marx, is simply a means of earning and not a personal reward or satisfaction.
• Production in factories, as described by Marx, is a factory configuration that features a series of manufacturing steps where items flow through the process until they reach the finishing production.
• Each individual in a factory, according to Marx, is responsible for one thing.
• False class consciousness, as defined by Marx, is when workers are brainwashed into accepting their conditions and fail to recognise they are being exploited, thus they don't rebel.
• The means of productions, according to Marx, are necessary for producing society goods and are owned by the bourgeoisie.
• Marxists argue that the most significant part of a person's identity is their social class.
• Identity and the sense of self, according to Marx, is shaped by capitalism and by an individual relationship to the means of production.
• Workers are alienated from the products they produce as well as each other, according to Marx.
• There is less skill involved in production line work, tasks are repetitive and meaningless, and workers lack a sense of pride of their creations, according to Marx.
• The working class develop a false class consciousness, according to Marx, and fail to recognise they are being exploited, accepting their subordinate position.
• Althusser, according to Marx, believes that the ideological state apparatus transmits the values of the state and passes ideas of capitalism.