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How does Marx view social conflict as an essential element in social change?

  • UPSC 2020
  • Education System and Social Change

For most nineteenth-century thinkers conflict was a pathology to be managed. Karl Marx reversed the judgement: conflict is the normal condition of class societies and the only means by which one social order becomes another. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" (The Communist Manifesto, with Friedrich Engels, 1848)…

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  • Conflict is structural, not accidental
  • How conflict converts contradiction into change
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