Notice that its core principles resonate with the core principles of America's national identity. So Marxism is about changing and transforming society as we know it. Despite its gloomy, negative legacy in the 20th century, its ambitions are very positive and highly idealistic. It seeks to create a better world for all humanity, one that will eliminate alienation and despair and create harmony and mutual cooperation. Representations of reality can be accurately created.
Society shapes human identity and human consciousness.
Social and economic conditions directly influence how and what we believe and value. Marx said very little about literature, but his ideas have become the basis for the emergence of Marxist literary theory and criticism in the 20th century. While Marxist approaches to literature vary, they all seek to understand the relationship between a text and the society that reads it. Through daily living and interacting, humans define themselves. Our ideas and concepts about ourselves are fashioned in everyday discourse in the language of real life and are not derived from some Platonic essence or any other spiritual reality.