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class struggle

[ klas struhg-uhl ]

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noun

Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
Also called class war;. (in Marxist thought) the struggle for political and economic power carried on between capitalists and workers.

class struggle

the class struggle
the class struggle marxism the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power Also known asthe class war

class struggle

The idea, associated with Karl Marx (see also Marx ), that conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (see also proletariat ) is inevitable and will result in the triumph of socialism over capitalism .

First recorded in 1840–50

Mao invented the class struggle, which reached its zenith during the Cultural Revolution.

The old Marxist rhetoric of class struggle and equality is illusory.

He began to visualize what the class struggle meant, here in the quiet, placid South.

The theory of the class struggle is the master key to the bewilderments and confusions of history.

We may take this as an illustration of the difference between dogmatism and science in the strategy of the class struggle.

To do so they feel they must organize into a union and engage in a "class struggle" against the employer.

His sympathy with the workers and his understanding of the class struggle made him invaluable to the defense.

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