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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Marx saw the unfolding of human history to be due to the outcome of economic, rather than merely political conflicts: 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle' ( Marx and Engels 1962). ... For Marx, state power was inseparable from economic power, and capitalism was but a mechanism for the development of the capitalist mode of production. ...

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