The third class is in the capitalist mode of production, the bourgeoisie. ... Furthermore, everything that happens in a society is in some way related to the mode of production, also called the economic base. ... Literature does not reflect either the economic base or other ideology, but it works on existing ideologies and transforms them, giving these ideologies new shape and structure (Martin 77). ...

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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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Marx thought that as capitalism had replaced feudalism with a new mode of production, which was more productive and efficient, the same thing would happen to produce a replacement for capitalism. ... Where realism and liberalism took the state system for granted, Marxism offered both a different explanation for international conflict and a blueprint for fundamentally transforming the existing international order. ...

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