Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A): The Marxists represent Marxism as a scientific account of social change.

Reason (R): The Marxist ideology believes that culture is a mirror of social life and the artist is an engineer of the human soul educating the working classes.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is "(A) is correct but (R) is not correct."

Key Points

• Karl Marx and Frederick Engels established "scientific socialism" as the scientific analysis of society.
• Marx was able to demonstrate that society progresses through various stages by applying the laws of dialectical materialism to the study of society, thus devising historical materialism and transforming the study of societal structure into a science.
• As compared to capitalism, scientific knowledge has become a liberating force in socialism instead of a stifling force.

Therefore, option 3 is the correct answer.

Additional Information

• Marxist cultural analysis is a type of cultural criticism and anti-capitalist cultural review that begins with the theory of cultural hegemony and focuses on those elements of culture that are revenue-driven and a result of mass-production under capitalism.