MARX SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Social Analysis
 Social analysis means taking the time, habit, to question
what is happening in the world around us. It means
asking questions about society and looking for answers about
what's going on and who it affects.
 Social analysis not only helps us develop a critical
awareness of the world, but also to lead us toward
social justice.
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 When analyzing these questions it often brings out other
links, or connections between different social issues, and
this helps us dig beneath the surface, and find out what is
really going on in society.
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 For example, when discussing coffee, one might want to find
out
 where it comes from,
 how are the workers treated,
 what process it goes through to get to you.
 You also might want to ask yourself about the health hazards of
caffeine, sugar, or whitener etc.
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• Social analysis tries to make clear how basic needs of life are
being transformed into commodities. It helps show us
where the market is violating people's fundamental rights,
like clean air, clean water, and proper health care.
MARX’S BASIC PRINCIPLES
 Materialism – man’s relationship with economy (food,
shelter, clothing) is what drives social interaction
 Economy is not just a special sphere of humanity, it is the
structuring principle of entire social totality
 Private property – ownership has divided the world to haves
and have-nots
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Before
Private
Property
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Private
Property
OWNER

• ordinary people gathering sticks for firewood

are prosecuted for theft
• ordinary people have to work for the
wood-owner now
Ordinary people = Proletariat
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Capitalist
$50

$ Profit/
$10 Surplus value
Proletariat
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$$$
Capitalist’s $ Profit Profit

$50 $50 $50

Proletariat
$10 $10 $10
Well, that’s great!!!
The capitalists are
creating more jobs!

???
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Capitalist’s $$$ Profit
Machines Massive Production

$$$$$$$$
Massive
$10 $10 Profit
$5 $5
Lesser need Exploited
Proletariat
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 CONSEQUENCES
 Competition for the job position = (more supply than
demand)
 Capitalist set the rules, the price, etc
 Workers cannot demand, no voice
 Workers poor working condition
 Workers with lower wages has lesser capacity to
spend
 Workers will remain workers
 Rich will become richer
 CYCLE OF EXPLOITATION
Capitalists
Owner Proletariat
Profits Hardwork
Machines
Lesser pay
More profit Lesser
expenditure power
MARX’S Prediction
 CLASS STRUGGLE
 Marx’s recommendation = CLASS REVOLUTION
 Marx predicted that Capitalism will destroy itself
NEOLIBERALISM
Neoliberalism
 Authored by Thatcher and Reagan
 IMF and World Bank give loans to the 3rd world countries but
they have to comply to their demands
 privatization of state properties/assets
 Globalization
 Free market
 Cheap labor
 Outsourcing
 Labor Union busting
SOCIAL CLASS PYRAMID
Pyramidal Model (Tatsulok)
1%
Elite

9%
Working class

90%
marginalized
3 % are the wealthy and usually have the power

17 % are the middle class who can meet more than their
needs (relatively rich)

40 % have just enough and so they can meet their basic

needs though they are always in danger of suffering from
absolute poverty if a disaster strikes them

40 % suffer from absolute poverty and cannot maintain a

proper life and have little chance to be freed from this
condition
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