Ideology And Capitalism

Question 1

Louis Althusser
‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’
(2)

Answer 1

“a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form distinct and specialised institutions”
they “function by ideology”
(Althusser 1984)

Question 2

Marx and Engels, ‘The Communist Manifesto’, 1888

Answer 2

“the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains”

Marx and Engels 2008

Question 3

John McGrath, Cheviot, 1974

Answer 3

Old man: “The technological innovation was there… The money was there. Unfortunately, the people were there too. But the law of capitalism had to be obeyed”
(McGrath 2015)

Question 4

‘Capitalism’, Donald Robotham, 2014

Answer 4

“Capitalism is best defined as an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production”

Question 5

CM 2

Answer 5

“He becomes an appendage of the machine”
On the workman
(Marx and Engels 2008)

Question 6

Cheviot 2

Answer 6

Younger man: “Contrary to the opinion of our noble proprietors set forth in the newspapers… they have shown themselves to have no interest these parts except for the… removal of the people to all corners of the earth” (McGrath 2015)