The liberals and radicals both agree that change in the society and its political life ought to change but only disagree on the mode and process that this change should take in order to ultimately benefit society. ... In his view, Lenin stated that the economic and political struggle of the working class can transform half-hearted and hypocritical 'reforms' under the existing system into strong-points for an advancing working class movement on the road towards the victory of socialism. ... Karl Marx (1818-1883) claimed that genuine change or total transformation with creation of ne...

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Contrary to this belief, Marx believed that a society's ideas simply reflect the system, or mode of production in place within that society. ... Marx defines this false consciousness as the explanation of social problems as the fault of an individual's inadequacies, rather than sociological flaws existing in the capitalist society (Macionis, 1997: 78). ... As quoted in Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. ... Marx attempts to explain the rise of capitalism by dividing history into four main ...

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