Karl Marx, a German philosopher, once predicted that a revolution would arise among the working class. The misery of the proletariats would set off a world revolution. ... This "scientific socialism" theory that he formed was claimed to be based on a scientific study of history. ... With the improvements came a lost of appeal for a world revolution in industrially developed western countries. ... Would a revolution among the working class have occurred if the necessary improvements in life had not taken place? ...

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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." (Howard: 10) Marx describes the classes in terms of binary oppositions, with one party as oppressor, the other as oppressed. The complex and multi-member clas...

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The poet, William Morris, shared with Marx a conviction that utopia could be achieved only after the working classes had, by revolution taken control of government and industry. ... Scientific: Darwin's theory on the "Origin of Species" intensified the decisions of religion, and bringing to light scepticism in the church and bible. ...

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IS THE CONCEPT OF CLASS WAR STILL VALID? 'Social stratification' is the term used to describe systematic structures of inequality. In pre-industrial or traditional societies, inequalities and thus social stratification were widely held to be natural. Aristotle stated that 'by nature' there were fre...

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