Monday, November 9, 2015

How can I prove Brave New World speaks of a Marxist Society?I am to talk about Karl Marx and his theories and relate it to Brave New World.

In your explanation here, you say that you have to relate
Marx's theories to the book.  I would say that you should do this by saying that this
society shows what Marx says is wrong with capitalist
society.  This society is not marxist.  Instead, it is the epitome of what Marx is
criticizing.


To Marx,
capitalist society has the upper classes dominating the lower.  In this society, this
has been taken to an extreme.  The upper classes (the Alphas) create these castes of
slaves to do their work.  To Marx, religion is used to prevent the masses from
rebelling.  In this book, conditioning, sports, soma, and sex are used for the same
purpose.  When you look at it like this, you can see that Marx would say that this
society is like capitalism, only worse.


A truly marxist
society would have a population that is all equal.  This does not exist at all in this
book.  So I would argue that you should relate Marx's theories to this book by saying
that the book portrays a society that is a caricature of what Marx criticizes about
capitalism.  It is meant to show what society ends up like if we take capitalism to its
logical end.

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