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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