In my previous post, as I talked about false consciousness and the media's connection to it surrounding us, a Marxist would deal with the concept of media. A Marxist is most concerned with what is the economic system behind media, who owns and controls the media. What a Marxist focuses on how the ideas are spread or neglected by the media.Why? Because mass media has influenced our minds consistently over the years. A Marxism's job is to analyze these factors and the extent of the reaction they cause from a social and political perspective.
As Marxism is both a theory and also a social and political movement, the movement has stemmed from the minds of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, specifically in their writings in "The German Ideology" established in 1845. As learned in last week's lecture, Marxist belief stems in "the mode of production that society determines the social relations of productions or class structure". The idea that the material world impacts human thought immensely could only end up with media having a hand in determining our conscience.
The base/superstructure represents Karl Marx's perspective of the material conditions of society:
It has been said that the modes of production within any society is characterized by two aspects: "forces of production" which falls into matters such as land, natural resources and technology which are required for material production. While the second aspect is"relations of production" which is labor practices or ownership of property and/or the ways goods are distributed. The way mass media impacts society from a Marxist perspective analysis is the same foundation of what we are built on as a society. We require religion, impact from the media, education to expand our means to living. While the base of it all lays within the political economy platform, we thrive off of the material aspect of what the world has to offer, which just so happens to be where media plays a big role.
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