class struggle

Definitions

Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes); the active expression of a theoretical class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“This last⟳ point⟳ is particularly dear to Marx with his emphasis on the relation of surplus labor to the length of the working day and to class struggle⟳ over conditions of production <…>, both of which disappear⟳ from view⟳ in Sraffa.”

“Fundamentalists do not deny⟳ that the class struggle⟳, even as this might manifest itself in tepid ‘business unionism’, plays a role in articulating the crisis tendencies of the capitalist economy.”

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