class struggle
Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
Also called class war; class war·fare [klas-wawr-fair] /ˈklæs ˈwɔrˌfɛər/ . (in Marxist thought) the struggle for political and economic power carried on between capitalists and workers.
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How to use class struggle in a sentence
Mao invented the class struggle, which reached its zenith during the Cultural Revolution.
The old Marxist rhetoric of class struggle and equality is illusory.
He began to visualize what the class struggle meant, here in the quiet, placid South.
Mountain | Clement WoodThe theory of the class struggle is the master key to the bewilderments and confusions of history.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairWe may take this as an illustration of the difference between dogmatism and science in the strategy of the class struggle.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton Sinclair
To do so they feel they must organize into a union and engage in a "class struggle" against the employer.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanHis sympathy with the workers and his understanding of the class struggle made him invaluable to the defense.
The Everett massacre | Walker C. Smith
British Dictionary definitions for class struggle
the class struggle marxism the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power: Also known as: the class war
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Cultural definitions for class struggle
The idea, associated with Karl Marx (see also Marx), that conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (see also proletariat) is inevitable and will result in the triumph of socialism over capitalism.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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