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5 - Class Struggle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2020

By
Alex Callinicos
Edited by
Marcello Musto
Marcello Musto
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
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Summary

The class struggle is probably the idea most closely identified with Karl Marx – above all thanks to the opening lines of the Manifesto of the Communist Party The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

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The Marx Revival
Key Concepts and New Critical Interpretations
 , pp. 92 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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