WHAT IS MARXISM?
Marx argued that capitalism is based on the profit motive and that under capitalism, profits are generated by exploiting workers.
Marx believed that capitalist society is divided into two social classes.

ALTHUSSER
Althusser identified what he called the Ideological State Apparatuses, which operate alongside the Repressive State Apparatuses to maintain these bourgeois ideologies:

• Religion
• Education
• Family (family values)
• Legal and political systems
• Political system
• Cultural and communications system

GRAMSCI

This is the dominance of the ideologies of the ruling class, with all the beliefs and values that they incorporate. He argued that this process is so successful that it becomes "common sense".