False Marxism In 'On Dumpster Diving'

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Desirae Garcia Professor Pecenkovic English 101 25 November 2017 Research Essay Outline By applying the marxist lens “On Dumpster Diving” the reader creates an Ideology which is utilized in order to distinct two different types of people in society those who view things useless and those who so potential in useless things. The theory of marxism was created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the time of the revolution which was during 1848. Marxism is “ The political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx; especially : a theory and practice of socialism (see socialism 3) including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society”(Webster). In today's society we can see that Marxism indeed …show more content…

Although many things in Dumpsters are obviously meant never to come to light, a dumpster is somehow less personal”(286).This demonstrates that dumpster divers do indeed have a sense of false consciousness and know the differences between just regular dumpster diving and invading one's privacy.False consciousness is experienced in some of the many dumpster divers they don’t feel as if they are necessarily robbing someone but they still have feelings towards others and respect them and try to not be seen as creepy and make others feel

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