Explain Karl Marx's class Theory
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Central to Marx's thought is his theory of historical materialism, which argued that human societies and their cultural institutions (like religion, law, morality, etc.) were the outgrowth of collective economic activity. Marx's theory was heavily influenced by Hegel's dialectical method.
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Explanation:
(i) According to Karl Marx, history was not about
abstract ideas, it was about living people.
(ii) Human relationships were shaped by the
fundamental needs of people and their ownership
as well as nature of the prevalent means of
production to meet those needs.
(iii) The accessibility of these means to different
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of society may not be equal.
(iv) This inequality causes a division of society into
classes, leading to a class struggle.
(v) The class that owns the means of production
economically exploits the rest of the classes.