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This 4 page paper considers Marx's idea that class conflict defines societies and their historical development, in light of the remarks of two other writers, William Domhoff and Edna Bonacich. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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his ideas, namely that class conflict defines societies and their historical development, in light of the remarks of two other writers, William Domhoff and Edna Bonacich. Discussion Friedrich Engels
had to write the introduction to the German edition of the Communist Manifesto of 1883 on his own; his friend Karl Marx was dead. In that introduction, he encapsulated
the "basic thought" of the Manifesto: "... that economic production and the structure of society of every historical epoch necessarily arising therefrom constitute the foundation for the political and
intellectual history of that epoch [and] that consequently ... all history has been a history of class struggles" (Tucker, p. 472). Its worth taking a closer look at this
statement, because Marx is saying that it is economic production that determines the type of society that exists concurrently with it. This means that as means of production become
more sophisticated and more goods are produced, society as a whole should become wealthier. But that doesnt always happen, because the wealth isnt evenly distributed, and the overall result
is that the class struggle "has now reached a stage where the exploited and oppressed class (the proletariat) can no longer emancipate itself from the class which exploits and oppresses
it (the bourgeoisie) (Tucker, p. 472). Furthermore, the bourgeoisie "cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations
of society ... The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish
connexions [sic] everywhere" (Tucker, p. 476). The idea of connections being important to the bourgeoisie is borne out by Domhoffs comments in his book, Who Rules America? So is
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