He argues that without social solidarity, social life would be impossible as everyone would pursue their own selfish desires and not work together to get what they want out of life. The education system helps to create this social solidarity by transmitting society's ideas from one generation to the next. For example, Durkheim argues that teaching of a countries history instil a sense of a shared heritage and commitment to the wider social group. However Marxists argue this social solidarity is just brainwashing students into thinking that everyone in society today is equal and that we are all part of society, while we are really just getting exploited by the bourgeoisie. People are just being led into a sense of false class consciousness and are being persuaded into thinking they have the same values of everyone else when they actually haven't.
An Inspector Calls is a play with lots of political messages as well as social messages. J. B. Priestley believed in socialism and he used large amounts of his plays to try and convince people to his way of thinking. It was written in a time when Britain was ruled by a Labour government and socialist policies were seen to be the right way to go. It was a common way of thinking at that time so Priestley's aim for the play was to influence the unconvinced in society.
Priestley’s concerns were the lack of responsibilities Capitalists felt as though existed between one another, and that Communists would form a stronger knit community, one which makes everyone feel responsible for one another’s actions. The Inspector wants to teach the Birling’s just this, that even though they feel as if they are ‘above’ Eva Smith in terms of class, their actions have massive effects on people, maybe even more so than what would happen to someone of their own class. As this is a play, a variety of dramatic devices are used throughout, to invoke emotions, questions, or ideas within the audience. Irony is a theme which Priestley carries throughout the play, but is used the most extensively within the first act. Two great examples of this are both in Mr Birling’s long speech, one being that the Titanic was ‘absolutely unsinkable’, whilst the other is when he says: ‘There’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere – except of course in Russia, which will always be behindhand naturally.’ The first is ironic for tragic, yet obvious
Therefore, religion is a conservative force. For example, religion prevents a false class conscience which prevents the working class from realising their true potential and keeps them oppressed. As a result, religion prevents a true class conscience where the working class realise they are being exploited. Moreover, religion acts a form of “compensation” for the working class as the belief in God and heaven offers the working class compensation for the misery the experience through capitalism. Marxists argue that religion promises us happiness, but this is an illusion hiding the truth; true happiness can only be found in a revolution.
He does this by showing us Sam Lowry who represents the individual who versus the state. Another representative from the film is Tuttle, a repairs man, who quits his job working for the state because of the paperwork and is therefore seen as a terrorist of the state. In addition Guilliam depicts the way that people have accepted their “place” in the hierarchy of society without questioning it. How social relations overpower capability and efficiency concerning achieving something in life. That there are a few people who are the elitists who dominate the ideal lifestyle and are in charge of the working class, manipulating them to work harder, giving them hope of reaching the “American Dream”.
However, he is narcissistic in the success of new product, and he told the engineer in Malaysia do not tell anyone about the problem of product in the beginning, which is deceit. CEO Bob’s goal is power and money. Money gives him power, and power brings more money, which can assist him to influence public to collect more money and merge, and maintains his social identity. He is narcissistic for power and money and knows the relationship between power and money, which almost lets him become a superman to do anything. So, he deceives to public foe a fake ideology, which is breaking glass ceiling to find a female director.
While their opinion of what kind of people need to be removed from society differs, these men are in fact identical when it comes to their aims of proving their deep-rooted, megalomaniacal conceptions of society infallible. Major Barbara’s Andrew Undershaft, is a cunning and godless capitalist who was adopted into the business of manufacturing artillery by the Undershaft tradition. Due to the nature of his merchandise and his business role in society, the morals he practices are ones developed to serve a greater purpose. Undershaft’s primary moral belief is that poverty is, “The worst of all crimes”, and that all other crimes are an indirect cause of having a lower class. Correspondingly, he implies that the people who continue to practice poverty only do so in an obsession to uphold subordinate religious morals.
All of this building up to the fact that we use and waste a lot of stuff that we “need” to fulfill our happiness. We use material goods to fill a void, being that we don’t want to appreciate what we have around us, instead we show this through what we buy. In the story Burgess makes the point that we don’t appreciate the finer things, because we’re spoiled. We haven’t had someone invade the USA, or have had to sacrifice significantly since the Great Depression. While many lost their jobs, the nation was brought together for a common goal and this marked a high point in our nation as we all ignored our differences to achieve something great.
Note that the emphasis is on the individual, because free-markets enable the individual to prosper, and in turn, society improves for the greater good. Locke sees capitalism as the highest form of economic evolution, but Marx believes it is just a step toward his better, collective system. Marxism emphasizes the collective group and, in my view, deemphasizes the individual to the detriment of the whole, which is why true Marxism has never worked and never will (but will live forever in fantasy worlds dreamt up by unemployed liberal arts majors). Private property is the motivating factor that keeps society functioning. Without it, we would simply waste away.
According to Marxists, the role of the education system is to provide workers for every part of the economy. Althussers argues the bourgeoisie uses ideology to control people. As it wins over people’s minds and avoids having to use force to control society. This happens through two main ways firstly repressive state apparatus - this is where the ruling class maintain control by force and enforcing the order of society e.g. using the police and courts.