Class Struggle
Class Struggle
For Marx, social struggle was the determining factor for social progress. He believed that society would continue to progress through different eras based on the conflicts of the upper classes and the lower classes. What's more, he believed that society was destined to move towards a revolution where those in the lower classes took back the means of production.
This video goes into a little more detail.
Marx & Engles on Class Struggle
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending"
- The Communist Manifesto