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Write short note: Class struggle as conceived by Karl Marx.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Sociological Thinkers

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles: with this opening line of The Communist Manifesto (1848), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels made class conflict the motor of history. Engels later added a footnote restricting the claim to recorded history, after primitive communism.

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  • Basis of class struggle
  • How the struggle develops under capitalism
  • Role in social change
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