Class conflict
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'''Class struggle''' is the active expression of [[class conflict]] looked at from any kind of [[socialism|socialist]] perspective. [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], leading ideologists of [[communism]], wrote "The [written] history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle". | '''Class struggle''' is the active expression of [[class conflict]] looked at from any kind of [[socialism|socialist]] perspective. [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], leading ideologists of [[communism]], wrote "The [written] history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle". | ||
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"Proletarian violence, carried on as a pure and simple manifestation of the sentiment of class struggle, appears thus as a very fine and heroic thing; it is at the service of the immemorial interests of civilization; it is not perhaps the most appropriate method of obtaining immediate material advantages, but it may save the world from barbarism." --Reflections on Violence, Georges Sorel, p.85 |
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Class struggle is the active expression of class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, leading ideologists of communism, wrote "The [written] history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle".
Marx's notion of class has nothing to do with hereditary caste, nor is it exactly social class in the sociological sense of upper, middle and lower classes (which are often defined in terms of quantitative income or wealth). Instead, in an age of capitalism, Marx describes an economic class. Membership of a class is defined by one's relationship to the means of production, i.e., one's position in the social structure that characterizes capitalism. Marx talks mainly about two classes that include the vast majority of the population, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Other classes such as the petty bourgeoisie share characteristics of both of these main classes.
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Chronology
Riots with a basically nationalist background are not included.
Classical antiquity
Middle Ages
Modern era
- German Peasants' War since 1524
- English Civil War (1642–1651) (Diggers)
- French Revolution since 1789
- Canut revolts in Lyon since 1831 - often considered as the beginning of the modern labor movement
- Revolutions of 1848 France (et al.)
- Paris Commune 1871
- Donghak Peasant Revolution in Korea 1893/94
- 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
- Mexican Revolution since 1910
- October Revolution in 1917
- Spartacist uprising in Germany 1919
- Seattle General Strike of 1919 in Seattle
- General Strike of 1919 in Spain
- Winnipeg General Strike 1919
- Ruhr Uprising in Germany 1920
- Kronstadt rebellion 1921
- Hamburg Uprising 1923
- 1926 United Kingdom general strike
- 1934 West Coast waterfront strike
- Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
- Cuban Revolution 1953-1959
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - foundation of worker's councils
- Poznań 1956 protests
- Mai 68 in France
- Battle of Valle Giulia 1968 Italy
- Wild cats in Western Germany in 1969
- Winter of Discontent 1978/79
- UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
- 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
- 2006 Oaxaca protests in Mexico
- 2008 Greek riots
- 2010 Kyrgyzstani uprising
- Egyptian Revolution of 2011
- 2011 England riots
See also
- Class consciousness
- Classism
- Classless society
- Conflict of the Orders
- Deformed workers state
- Degenerated workers state
- Economic inequality
- Economic stratification
- Exploitation
- Johnson County War
- Labor union
- No War But The Class War
- Popular revolt in late medieval Europe
- Revolution
- Sharecropping
- Slave rebellion
- Social class
- Socialist Harmonious Society
- Taxation