class struggle
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English
Noun
class struggle (usually uncountable, plural class struggles)
- Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes); the active expression of a theoretical class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective.
- 2016, Anwar Shaikh, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 427:
- This last point is particularly dear to Marx with his emphasis on the relation of surplus labor to the length of the working day and to class struggle over conditions of production <…>, both of which disappear from view in Sraffa.
- 2019, Murray E. G. Smith, Invisible Leviathan: Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism, →ISBN, page 190:
- Fundamentalists do not deny that the class struggle, even as this might manifest itself in tepid ‘business unionism’, plays a role in articulating the crisis tendencies of the capitalist economy.
Translations
struggle between classes
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