He believed that each phase of history was defined by and ultimately driven by the dominate mode of production of the time. ... Unlike Marx, Weber understood that people are part of other social groups not just the dominate mode of production, and focused on what distinguished these groups from the rest. ... During this time there was an increase in the population, which caused the demand for specialized goods to grow making the traditional mode of production "no longer sufficed for the growing want of the market (Marx, 474)." ... This change in the mode of production from guilds to giant man...

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According to authors Theda Skocpol and Ellen Kay Trimberger, Marx believed, " a revolutionary situation occurs when an existing mode of production reaches the limits of its contradictions. ... In turn, intensifying class conflict is generated between the existing dominant class and the rising, revolutionary class. ... (Goldstone, 64) Marx believed that social change came through three main ideas: competition, class struggle, and transitions of modes of production. ... Finally, social change can happen because of transitions of modes of production. ...

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Conflict Theory, as stated best by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto explains "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." ... "Collective action of the top dogs against the underdogs establishes the practices of inequality in each mode of inequality, parasitic practices are established through collective action, and then enabling myths make the practices seem legitimate. ...

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The Communist Manifesto begins with Marx's generalization that " history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." ... They are necessary consequence of bourgeois modes of production. ...

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They all suffer from at least one of three problems: they look to previous modes of social organization for a solution to present difficulties, they deny the inherent class character of the existing conflict; they do not recognize that violent revolution on the part of the proletariat is the only way to eradicate the conditions of oppression. ... Marx announces the communist intention to "everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things" (pg. 120). ...

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