Answer to Question #210557 in Philosophy for Dawuda Hamda

Question

Examine Karl Marx and Hotter's analysis of ideology in contemporary Ghanaian society

Answer 1

Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx. It examines the effect of capitalism on labor, productivity, and economic development and argues for a worker revolution to overturn capitalism in favor of communism in Ghana.

According to Marx one believes the traditional Marxist theory of the dynamics and destiny of capitalism, then there is little need for an elaborate normative theory of the alternatives to capitalism. The problem of socialism can be left to the pragmatic ingenuity of people in current Ghana. It is for this reason that Marxists traditionally have believed an elaborate positive normative theory was unnecessary. The normative dimension of Marxism has thus primarily taken the form of the critique of capitalism as a social order characterized by alienation, exploitation, fetishism, mystification, degradation, immiseration, the anarchy of the market currently in Ghana society.