This PDF outlines and illustrates the basic principles of Critical Theory - its history and relationship to Cultural Studies, Cultural Politics, Capialism, Marxism. Among the key conceptual categories are interrogated and explained:

• Socialism
• Base-Superstructure
• Equity
• Hegemony
  
• Human Nature
• History
• Cutural Capital
• Colonisation
• Rationality
• The Enlightenment
• Commodification
• The Creation of Scarcity
• The Maintenance of Social Order
• The Creation of Poverty
• The Free Market
• The Trickle-Down Theory
• Military Spending
• Progress
• Criminality
• Blaming the Victim
• Naming and legitimating
• Alienation
• Praxis
• Organic Intellectuals
  
• The Role of the State

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