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class conflict

American  

Etymology

Origin of class conflict

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Season 1 was surprisingly great — a gory but smart, richly developed retro-futuristic reflection of class conflict — and wound up being one of Prime Video’s most-watched shows ever.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 30, 2025

Class divisions and class conflict would become a thing of the past.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

About halfway through his M.F.A. program, he stumbled across a new medium that would give him a powerful way of exploring class conflict.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

The storyline crackles with intersectional energy and class conflict as Louise Jefferson struggles with whether to hire a friend as a maid.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2022

And Owen, in many respects the greatest of the three, realized in a practical manner that the industrial problem was a class conflict.

From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by Spargo, John