Question

What is Marxist view?

Answer 1

Marxists use a reading of history called “historical materialism”. It states that all human history is the history of class struggle. Essentially, if you look back throughout human history, you will always find a lower class (possibly several different ones) fighting againstan upper class for control over society. Eventually, this conflict causes the present system to implode, allowing the next system to arise, and the cycle to beginanew. Marxists hold that this cycle will only end with a working-class revolution which dissolves the class structure for good, creating a classless and stateless society.In the context of Indian history (I’m assuming you’re referring to the actualhistory of India, not Native Americans) you can look at the caste system, one of the most rigid class structures in human history. That’s a massive example of class conflict at work;the only thing that prevented a lower-class revolution in India was that Hinduism, by far the dominant religion, justified the class system and claimed that following it was a religious duty. For other examples, you can look at the various empires which have controlledIndia throughout its history (such as the Gupta Empire), all of whom established a class system of some kind.

Answer 2

Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew out of various sources, and the official philosophy in the Soviet Union, which enforced a rigid reading of Marx called dialectical materialism, in particular during the 1930s. Marxist philosophy is not a strictly defined sub-field of philosophy, because the diverse influence of Marxist theory has extended into fields as varied as aesthetics, ethics, ontology, epistemology, theoretical psychology and philosophy of science, as well as its obvious influence on political philosophy and the philosophy of history. The key characteristics of Marxism in philosophy are its materialism and its commitment to political practice as the end goal of all thought.

Marxist theorist Louis Althusser, for example, defined philosophy as "class struggle in theory", thus radically separating himself from those who claimed philosophers could adopt a "God's eye view" as a purely neutral judge.