Question

Class struggle 

What do Marx and Engels mean by the "class struggle". What role do they assign to the class struggle in society? Do they think that this class struggle will ever end?

Class 

What do Marx and Engels mean by "class"? What are the two fundamental classes that they see in capitalism? What role does each class play?

Answer 1

1. The capitalist theory was given Karl Marx. Marx and Engels said that the society is comprises of two types of people, in fact they divided the society into two class i.e. Bourgeoisie who has the capital and have control over the means of production and second is proletariat are people who are workers and provide the labor. The both sociologist named the struggle between these two classes as class struggle. The struggle between these two classes is base to divide the society and known to be a tension for the people. Yes, according to the Marxist, the class struggle will end. He further stated that there will be a time when proletariat will lead a revolution against the business class (bourgeoisie) and they will defeat the capitalism which will lead to the birth of a new society with new ideas whose base will be abilities of the person.

2. In Marxist theory of capitalism, they defined class as ownership of any property and such type of ownership acknowledge the person with power to exclude the other people from their property and also to use it for their own personal uses. Marx and Engels explained about two types of class which help in maintaining the society i.e. the bourgeoisie which include people who has their business and full control over the production and the second class is proletariat i.e. labors or workers who work in the business of bourgeoisie.