Marxism: Theory and Impact on Gender Equality

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The aim of this paper is to discuss the theory of Marxism and how this has change the
view of the world completely. Marxism is one of the most important ideologies of the world
that had shaped the economy and polity of different countries indifferent situation and time so
that the deprived people can be empowered and equal social system can be obtained. Marxist
worldview who is basically grounded in the Communist Manifesto and Das capital by Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels (MacKinnon 2018). There are some major categories based on
which the Marxism can be seen and felt. It is a completely different point of view that show a
different side of the world system. Marxism is a Theory which focuses on the working class
self-emancipation. This relies on the method of social economic analysis to see the class
relations and social conflicts by using material conflict interpretation of the historical
development. This theory of Marx takes a dialectical view of the social transformation. This
essay will be discussing the Marxist view or world mainly focusing on the welfare and
growth of the women in the society and analyse whether there are influences of economic
inequalities dominating the overall growth of women.
Marxism uses methodologies namely class conflict which mainly analyses and
criticises the development of class society specially the capitalism ideology. This details the
role of class struggle in the systematic social economic and political change. Marxist theory
in the capitalist society discuss how the class conflict arises from the contradiction between
material interests of the exploited and oppressed class of people who are termed as
proletariat, the wage labourers, employed for production of goods and services and the
bourgeois, the ruling class. The social imbalance and class struggle is available because the
ruling class owns all the means of production by extracting the wealth through appropriation
of surplus product produced by proletariat class in the form of profit. They are exploiting the
labour of these proletariat and depriving them from their basic needs even. The Marxist
theory referred this class struggle commonly expressed as revolt of the productive forces of

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the society against the relation of production which results in in short term crisis because the
bourgeois try to manage intensifying problem of the labour experienced by proletariat with
wearing degree of class consciousness in this period of crisis the resistance of the oppressed
class may culminate in in revolution that if victorious leads to the foundation of socialism.
This type of social system is based on the social ownership of all the means of production,
production organised directly for use and distribution based on the contribution of the
persons. This is the process of the forces of the society gets continue to advance and
socialism will ultimately transform into communist society where there will be no classes and
stateless human society will rule based on the common ownership of the means of production
(Mojab 2015).
Marxism has change the point of view of the people around the world for nearest
therefore different capital is societies have embraced this ideology for bringing economic
growth and welfare. Marxism has developed different branches and schools of thought. The
idea of class struggle and classless Society leads to create another type of state where
materialism and capitalism will not have any place and the power and means of production
will be enjoyed by every person according to their contribution to the society (Jarrett 2015).
Just as the knowledge of a man reflects his nature, similarly various views and doctrine like
philosophical political and religious reflect the economic system of the society (Luxton
2015). The political institutions create scope for superstructure on the economic Foundation
where the interests of the citizens are secured properly by the means of eliminating
discrimination.
As mentioned before Marxism has helped to develop ideas and perseverance of
persons to see the world which used to exist before and after globalisation. There are various
facets of life and social development are being seen under the light of Marxism. Marxist
theory establishes equal distribution of wealth and power among the citizens of the states