Explain perspective of neo-marxist research theory.
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Marxist and neo-Marxist theories of revolution identify the material or economic organization of a given society, that is, the forces and relations of production, as the principle context determining revolutionary conflicts, which are understood as particularly acute struggles between social classes. For Marxists, revolutions are the result of class struggles between dominant ‘ruling’ classes, on the one hand, and ‘rising’ or revolutionary classes, on the other. Revolutionary situations are understood to develop during those historical periods when the development of the forces of production (technology, skills, the division of labor) comes into conflict with the existing relations of production, or class relations, which are based on the ownership and control of productive property.