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How do Marxists view class struggle?
In the latest in our series the Marx Memorial Library explains the struggle between the ownership class and the employee class is a fact accepted by politicians of all kinds, but only socialists intend to actually end this conflict
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CLASS struggle is not, as some would have it, a Marxist conspiracy; it is a fact of social life, a proper subject for historical analysis.

From some 11,000 years ago an agricultural revolution began to end the classless primitive communism of hunter gatherers.

People could now produce more than was needed for mere subsistence.

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