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Question
Explain Karl Marx’s ‘Class Theory’.
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Solution
In his book “Das Kapital,” German philosopher Karl Marx introduced “Class Theory” in the late nineteenth century.
According to Karl Marx:
- History was not about abstract ideas; it was about living people.
- Human relationships are shaped by people's fundamental needs and by the ownership and nature of the prevalent means of production used to meet those needs.
- The accessibility of these means to different strata of society may not be equal. This inequality divides society into classes, leading to class struggle.
- According to Marx, human history is the history of class struggle, as the class that owns the means of production economically exploits the other classes. ‘Das Kapital’, a treatise written by him, is the most referred to book all over the world.
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