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class struggle

n
(Philosophy) the class struggle marxism the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power. Also known as: the class war
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class′ strug′gle


n.
(in Marxism) the struggle for political and economic power waged between capitalists and workers.
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Noun1.class struggle - conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)class struggle - conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)
conflict, struggle, battle - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
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He laid too great stress on what he called the class struggle, the antagonism between labor and capital, the conflict of interest.
"Page one hundred and thirty-two," I read aloud: "'The class struggle, therefore, presents itself in the present stage of social development between the wage-paying and the wage-paid classes.'"
We say that the class struggle is a law of social development.
"Page one hundred and twenty-six: 'The cycle of class struggles which began with the dissolution of rude, tribal communism and the rise of private property will end with the passing of private property in the means of social existence.'"
Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands.
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Jameson proposes a dialectic capable of holding together in one breath the heterogeneities that reflect biological individuality, people's submersion in collective history, and class struggle, as well as alienation from a disembodied new world of information and abstraction.
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This supremacy introduced the class struggle between upper class (i.e.
An eminent scholar and author of several books on philosophy and Marxism, Ashfaq Saleem Mirza, said that people mostly saw economic reductionism and class struggle as a basis of Marxism.
Secondly, Althusser believed that Maoism and China concretized his theorization of the phrase "reacts back on" or "reciprocal action." In order to remold the "descriptive term 'reacts back on' or 'reciprocal action,'" Althusser suggested that the above terms should be re-examined according to the concept of "reproducing" and the effects of class struggle (Reproduction 163).
All his films deal with social injustice, underdevelopment, political abuse, and the class struggle.