Marx Or Foucault

Marx Or Foucault

“Marx, his traditional and conventional takes on youth subcultures…Or Foucault, his revised spin on Marxism, and the modernized aspects of describing youth subcultures?” For decades, individuals like you and I have been subjected to countless years and numerous debates within our classrooms and/or workplaces deciding whose framework(s) for society and describing youth subcultures are more efficient? Our professors have said one thing, our peers have said another; but it is our responsibility to take the knowledge that we have acquired over the years, and formulate our own opinion and take a firm stance on which ideology we agree with and/or follow the most as a cohesive society, as a people, and as an individual…. Marx or Foucault?! Throughout the following, I will delineate the differences between Marx and Foucault. Furthermore, I will describe both of Marx’s and Foucault’s attempts to describe youth subcultures and their society, and which negative and positive aspects of each framework unfold in this influential, but brief overview of this special report of, “ Marx or Foucault…You Be The Judge.”
Marx and Foucault have both made strong attempts to describe how youth subcultures and their surrounding societies works. All of their ideologies and frameworks about society and youth subcultures run on contrary to the other, making it difficult to decide whom to follow. Karl Marx born into a comfortable middle class home in Germany on May 5, 1818, took on a life ambition to design an ideal theoretical framework in describing society’s power relations and how the subcultures within it unfold (Kreis, 2000). In describing youth subcultures, Marx, whom is linked to the Modernist point of view, can simply be defined as
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traditional. Marxism believes that there is a scientific and universal truth across all people, all round the world. All stages throughout one’s life are all the same world wide, race to race and class to class, in an...