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 +"[[Proletarian violence]], carried on as a pure and simple manifestation of the sentiment of [[Class conflict |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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 +''[[Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills]]'' (1989) by Paul Bartel
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-:''[[Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills]]'' +'''Class conflict''' (also '''class warfare''' and '''class struggle''') is the political tension and economic antagonism that exists in [[society]] consequent to [[socioeconomics|socio-economic]] competition among the [[social class]]es.
-'''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".+
-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.{{GFDL}}+The forms of class conflict include direct violence, such as wars for resources and cheap labor and assassinatons; indirect violence, such as deaths from poverty and starvation, illness and unsafe working conditions. Economic coercion, such as the threat of unemployment or the withdrawal of investment capital; or ideologically, by way of political literature. Additionally, political forms of class warfare are: legal and illegal lobbying, and bribery of legislators.
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 +The social-class conflict can be direct, as in a dispute between labour and management, such as an employer's [[Lockout (industry)|industrial lockout]] of his employees in effort to weaken the bargaining power of the corresponding [[trade union]]; or indirect, such as a workers' slowdown of production in protest of [[unfair labor practices]], such as low wages and poor workplace conditions.
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 +In the political and economic philosophies of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Mikhail Bakunin]], class struggle is a central tenet and a practical means for effecting radical social and political changes for the social majority.
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 +==Chronology==
 +Riots with a basically nationalist background are not included.
 + 
 +===Classical antiquity===
 +*[[Conflict of the Orders]]
 +*[[Roman Servile Wars]]
 + 
 +===Middle Ages===
 +*[[Ciompi]] in Florence 1378
 +*[[Jacquerie]] - France 14th century
 + 
 +===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]]
 +*[[Anarchism in Spain#General Strike of 1919|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 council]]s
 +*[[Poznań 1956 protests]]
 +*[[Mai 68]] in France
 +*[[Battle of Valle Giulia]] 1968 [[Italy]]
 +*[[Wildcat strike action|Wild cat]]s 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]]
 +*[[trade union|Labor union]]
 +*[[No War But The Class War]]
 +*[[Popular revolt in late medieval Europe]]
 +*[[Revolution]]
 +*[[Sharecropping]]
 +*[[Slave rebellion]]
 +*[[Social class]]
 +*[[Socialist Harmonious Society]]
 +*[[Taxation]]
 + 
 +{{GFDL}}

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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

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) by Paul Bartel

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Class conflict (also class warfare and class struggle) is the political tension and economic antagonism that exists in society consequent to socio-economic competition among the social classes.

The forms of class conflict include direct violence, such as wars for resources and cheap labor and assassinatons; indirect violence, such as deaths from poverty and starvation, illness and unsafe working conditions. Economic coercion, such as the threat of unemployment or the withdrawal of investment capital; or ideologically, by way of political literature. Additionally, political forms of class warfare are: legal and illegal lobbying, and bribery of legislators.

The social-class conflict can be direct, as in a dispute between labour and management, such as an employer's industrial lockout of his employees in effort to weaken the bargaining power of the corresponding trade union; or indirect, such as a workers' slowdown of production in protest of unfair labor practices, such as low wages and poor workplace conditions.

In the political and economic philosophies of Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, class struggle is a central tenet and a practical means for effecting radical social and political changes for the social majority.

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Chronology

Riots with a basically nationalist background are not included.

Classical antiquity

Middle Ages

Modern era

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