class struggle

plural class struggles

1. uncountableusuallyConflict 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.

   In his letter of 5 March 1852 to Joseph Weydemeyer, Marx declares that it was not he who discovered the existence of classes or the class struggle […]

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 352

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   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.

   2016, Anwar Shaikh, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 427

   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.

   2019, Murray E. G. Smith, Invisible Leviathan: Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism, →ISBN, page 190

   Antonyms: class collaboration