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Marxist criticism on literature seems kind of lame at first saying that all that "we" have created has been influence by the outside world and is basically economically determined by capitalism in the US. It says that nothing can come from spirituality or our inner self. With a majority of religious Americans, it almost seems unreasonable to think that nothing could be shaped or formed by the individuals' beliefs like in the ten tenets of liberal humanism, where it states that individuality is something securely possessed within each of us as our unique essence.

Marxist literary criticism then begins to fall into place making sense in that people learn from what is around them, with what they grew up with, forming their "own" beliefs that are inevitably the same of most of their peers/community/family/friends.

For example, people who grow up with Christianity may believe in Jesus and the Bible may continue to believe and act in life according to the religion, but throughout life, a lot of moral decisions will be based off of Christianity because it was drilled into them growing up. I think that some people tweak their beliefs a bit but only in a certain range to the extent of their knowledge and what is acceptable in the society.

So... that's it.