Marxism

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Louis Althusser. “Ideology andIdeological State Apparatuses” in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.

Walter Benjamin. The Work of Art in theAge of its Technological Reproducibility.

Max Horkheimer and T. Adorno. “TheCulture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” in The Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Fredric Jameson. “The Cultural Logicof Late Capitalism” in Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.   

György Lukács. *“The Classical Formof Historical Novel” in The Historical Novel.   

Karl Marx. Volume One of Capital.

Raymond Williams. “Literary Theory” in Marxism and Literature.

Slavoj Žižek. “How Did Marx Invent the Symptom?” and “Che Vuoi?” in The Sublime Object ofIdeology.