These are just little paragraphs that were for a midterm that helped understand 4 authors: Marx, Benjamin, Althusser and Foucault.

1.According to Karl Marx, consciousness is doubled into two methods: the living individual and the transformation into real life. "In the first method of approach the starting-point is consciousness taken as the living individual; in the second method, which conforms to real life, it is the real living individuals themselves, and consciousness is considered solely as their consciousness." (768) In the quote from above I believe it is telling us that Marx believes real life forms …

…they were given medicine when they were sick and they would get an education. Mettray was a work farm where hard labor and discipline were severely imposed. By day the juvenile prisoners worked the fields in quiet and performed naval drills on closed in ships. By night they created a type of abnormal netherworld, enforcing their own regulations of love, honor, gesture, and justice. It was a humanity where the attractive, sadistic heterosexual was sovereign.