Ni: Leo Paras
April 29, 2021
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
Karl Marx believed there was a strain in all societies because the social organization never kept pace with development of the means of production.
An even greater strain develop from the division of mankind into two classes.
According to Marx, all history is a struggle between the ruling and working classes, and all societies have been torn by this conflict.
Past societies tried to keep the exploited class under control by using elaborate political organizations, laws, customs, traditions, ideologies, religions, and rituals.
Marx argued that man's personality, beliefs, and activities are shaped by these institutions.
By recognizing these forces, he reasoned, man will be able to overcome them through revolutionary action.
Marx believed that private ownership of the chief means of production was the heart of the class system.
For man to be really free, he declared, the means of production must be publicly owned - by the community as a whole.
With the resulting general economic and social equality, every person would have an opportunity to follow his own desires and to use his leisure time creatively.
Unfair institutions and customs would disappear.
All these events, said Marx, will take place when the proletariat (working class) revolts against the bourgeoisie (owners of the means of production).
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