class struggle

class struggle
conflict 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

Thenceforth, the class-struggle, practically as well as theoretically, took on more and more outspoken and threatening forms.


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