On their second album Solid Gold, the postpunk rock group Gang of Four openly assert their intention to approach pop music as critical theory with a song titled, appropriately enough, “Why Theory?” In answer to their own query of why critical theory should have a place in rock music, the band sings “Each day seems ...
Okay, I know Marxism is still a dirty word in America, though not quite the dirty word it was from the 50’s through the 80’s, but there are still a few of us out there who have seen through the brainwashing techniques of school films, commercials, television and theatrical propaganda that turned Marxism into the ...
George Orwell, perhaps one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, wrote Animal Farm to personify the failures of Stalin’s communism. In this book, Stalin clearly represents the character Napoleon, a pig who ceases power from Snowball’s true principles to bring about his own version of a utopia, which is not a utopia at ...
If you are college student, at some point you may be called upon to write an English term paper utilizing a specific type of literary theory as your thematic foundation. You may already be familiar with some of these critical theory terms and techniques: formalism, feminism, reader-response, new historicism, psychoanalytic, etc. One of the most ...
The February Revolution and the October Revolution of 1917 were important to Russian politics because they meant that the nation was being led towards socialism. The February Revolution meant that the Romanov dynasty ended, and that a Provisional Government was established. While Provisional Government meant that the government was temporary, some people were eager to ...
It may strike some people as amazingly at how easy it is to apply a Marxist critique to any text. What those people don’t seem to get-and will probably never get-is how right on the target Karl Marx was in his critique of capitalism. And that’s why it’s ridiculously easy to apply Marxist principles to ...
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