MARX AND IDEOLOGY.

The article presents a discussion on philosopher Karl Marx and his ideology. Marx's theory that all social institutions are influenced by economics is discussed. The materialistic concerns of every day life as examined in Marx's work are considered. Marx's definition of abstract ideas, such as beauty or spirituality, as inaccurate representations of the human condition in a capitalist environment is discussed. The responses of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Louis Althusser and other critics to Marx's reductionist theory are also discussed.