Blog Post 4: Marxism

Before this class, I didn’t know what Marxism was and what Marxism Critical meant. Then we watched a video on Youtube about “My Little Pony vs. Marxism.” I understand more about Marxism. Marxist literary criticism is a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories. Marxist criticism views literary works as reflections of the social institutions from which they originate. Marxism analyze helps the audiences view the movies/ television shows/ advertisings on many different terms such as the false consciousness, the ideology, the class conflict, the alienation, the consumer society and the grid-group analysis. For easier understand about Marxism, it is basically about who got the power over others. Example in “My Little Pony vs. Marxsim.”, most of ponies have their special talent, but then they have to hide it because someone got power over them says that isn’t a true friendship. “Ponies make it clear that equality, not individualism, is the path to true happiness.” They are all equal to each other. Marxism in this is whatever people do, they are received the same right, same value and same identity, not different from everybody else. They lost the egalitarian in the society to someone powerful. To people, just be yourself than anyone else, unique.