max weber suggested class conflict drives human history and is at the core of human progress.
who suggested class conflict drives human history and is at the core of human progress?
max weber
marx largely focuses on the capital industrialist society as the source of social stratification, which ultimately results in class conflict. he states that capitalism creates a division between classes which can largely be seen in manufacturing factories. the proletariat, is separated from the bourgeoisie because production becomes a social enterprise. contributing to their separation is the technology that is in factories. technology de-skills and alienates workers as they are no longer viewed as having a specialized skill. another effect of technology is a homogenous workforce that can be easily replaceable. marx believed that this class conflict would result in the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and that the private property would be communally owned. the mode of production would remain, but communal ownership would eliminate class conflict.
class conflict
the typical example of class conflict described is class conflict within capitalism. this class conflict is seen to occur primarily between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and takes the form of conflict over hours of work, value of wages, division of profits, cost of consumer goods, the culture at work, control over parliament or bureaucracy, and economic inequality. the particular implementation of government programs which may seem purely humanitarian, such as disaster relief, can actually be a form of class conflict. in the usa class conflict is often noted in labor/management disputes. as far back as 1933 representative edward hamilton of alpa, the airline pilot's association, used the term "class warfare" to describe airline management's opposition at the national labor board hearings in october of that year. apart from these day-to-day forms of class conflict, during periods of crisis or revolution class conflict takes on a violent nature and involves repression, assault, restriction of civil liberties, and murderous violence such as assassinations or death squads. (zinn, "people's history")
class conflict