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Compare and contrast Karl Marx's and Michel Foucault's analysis of the concept power.
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Compare and contrast Karl Marx's and Michel Foucault's analysis of the concept power. Karl Marx was a materialist philosopher who believed that all ideas came out of life, and its conditions not from any divine being or force, like the idealist philosophers believed(Hands,2000.P:11) This led him to present an analysis of power. According to Marx there was an underlying structure that determined social reality, and that must be grasped if social reality was to be understood. In his view the underlying structure was an economic one and its foundation is: natural resources, means of production and means of distribution. This underlying structure is "tantamount to the 'sum total of the relations of production. Furthermore, everything else in society must be built upon that foundation. The 'superstructure' is a 'reflex or a 'sublimate' of that underlying structure."(Harman,1997.P:43) It is essentially an ideological reflection of the forces at work in the socio-economic...
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