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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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Class struggle is the motor of history but the direction and detail of change at any time and place is the outcome of many factors, suggests the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Dignity is important to all humans, argues the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, but it does not come about automatically. In a less than perfect world, dignity can accompany suffering, but the collective dignity of working people is achieved through acting together to change the world.
Internationalism is deeply embedded in socialist theory and practice. Examination illuminates its complexity asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School