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Explain Karl Marx’s conception of class antagonism. How have the functionalists reacted to his views?

  • UPSC 2001
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Karl Marx, class antagonism is a structural contradiction built into every society in which one group owns the means of production and another must work for it. The Communist Manifesto (1848), written with Friedrich Engels, opens by declaring that the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Functionalists accepted…

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  • Marx's conception of class antagonism
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