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Marxism
Marxism
Marxism
Marxismis
a
method
of
socioeconomic analysis, originating
from the mid-to-late 19th century
works of German philosophers Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels, that
analyzes class relations and societal
conflict
using
a
materialist
interpretation
of
historical
development and a dialectical view
of social transformation.
Theory of Class-Struggle
The theory of class-struggle is that societies and
civilizations evolve through a process of struggle
between the conflicts of interests among classes, and
that dominant institutions in a society are a means of
support for the dominant class in that society; that
conflict within a society, and conflict between societies,
are a product of class struggle. The theory of classstruggle is not a claim that classesshouldstruggle, it is a
claim that classesdostruggle between each other. It is
an observation, not a doctrine. What Marxists termed the
"discovery" of class-struggle led to the concept that in
order to abolish the struggle it would be necessary to
abolish class distinction itself.