what do you understand by the theory of class struggle?
. Class 11th political science.
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Class struggle, or class warfare or class conflict, is tension or antagonism in society. It is said to exist because different groups of people have different interests. Looking at society this way is a feature of Marxism and socialism. Social sciences group people with similar social features into classes.
Answer:
– Karl Marx as a social thinker advocated an end to oppression and exploitation.
– According to him, the progression of human society occurred through different stages development.
– Every society moves from one stage to another, i.e. Primitive, Communism, Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism.
– The theory of class struggle according to Karl Marx was a process of bringing change in the capitalist society.
– Capitalism though oppressive and exploitative created preconditions for an egalitarian future of society.
– Classes in society are formed through historical processes shaped by transformations in the conditions of the production process and relation of existing class to it.
– Changes in the mode of production (the production technology and the social relations of production) develops conflicts between different classes which results in struggles. This leads to conflict between the already existing classes.
– The conflict between different class leads to class struggle that becomes the major driving force of change in society.
– In each era, a particular kind of class struggle evolved between the oppressor and oppressed classes.
– However, the class struggle only develops when class consciousness develops amongst group members leading to conflict.
– Such struggle finally becomes a revolution when the whole group of oppressed class joins in the struggle and finally overthrowing the old ruling class and formation of a new class.