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noun

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 warfare. (in Marxist thought) the struggle for political and economic power carried on between capitalists and workers.

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Origin of class struggle

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby class struggle

class meaning, classon, classroom, classroom assistant, class structure, class struggle, classwork, classy, clast, clastic, clat

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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.
Who's Hu?|Huang Hung|April 11, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The old Marxist rhetoric of class struggle and equality is illusory.
Fixing Honduras|Marco Vicenzino|November 28, 2009|DAILY BEAST
He began to visualize what the class struggle meant, here in the quiet, placid South.
Mountain|Clement Wood
The 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 Sinclair

We 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 Perlman
His 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

class struggle

noun

the class struggle marxism the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political powerAlso known as: the class war

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Cultural definitions for class struggle

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.

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