Marxist Feminism

Marxist Feminism is a form of feminist theory that focuses on the social institutions of private property and capitalism to explain and criticize gender inequality and oppression. Marxist feminism states that private property gives rise to economic inequality, dependence, political mess, and an unhealthy relationship between men and women which in turn is the root of women’s oppression. Marxist feminist allies themselves with the theories of Karl Marx. Marx and Fredrick Engels constructed the structure of Marxist economics the philosophy of materialism and the basis of social of social analysis which is also known as historical materialism. Marx demonstrated that the working class is being exploited by capitalist, who pay workers for a minimum pay of the value they produce for major profit. The Marxist feminists believe that the actions of capitalist are the reason for women’s second class status. For example women oppression, racism, homophobia, prejudice views, bias opinions and any other derogative terms meant to keep women weak and down in a controlled environment ruled by men and their idealistic views. This is even worse for those who are colored because of race and the fact they are women. Capitalist save an abundance amount of money. According to Marxist theory any person is strongly influenced by the structure of society that they are in meaning their class structure. “Marx had inherited the idea of civil society as one of a pair of concepts, the other being, of course, the state”. Marx saw that civil society was very important for the origin of capitalism. The main objective of Marxist paradigm is on how economic relations govern the political, rather than on the different kinds of civil society which cannot be broken down to economic classes or relationships. Civil society for Marx implies “forms” which just means economic developments are happening. “An essential aspect of civil society is that it is a sphere autonomous of the state, that it is not