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Jean-Francois Lyotard

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Knowledge

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Marxism is based on a unique idea about how society should be organized and what role knowledge plays within it. It sees knowledge not just as information, but as something created and used by society to shape its structure and goals.

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