Editing Social class (section)

==Class conflict==
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Class conflict, frequently referred to as class struggle, is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing [[socioeconomic]] interests and desires between people of different classes.

For Marx, the history of [[class society]] was a history of class conflict. He pointed to the successful rise of the bourgeoisie and the necessity of revolutionary violence—a heightened form of class conflict—in securing the bourgeois rights that supported the capitalist economy.

Marx believed that the exploitation and poverty inherent in capitalism were a pre-existing form of class conflict. Marx believed that wage labourers would need to [[revolt]] to bring about a [[Redistribution of income and wealth|more equitable distribution of wealth]] and political power.<ref>{{cite book|author=Streeter, Calvin L.|chapter=Community|editor=Mizrahi, Terry|title=Encyclopedia of social work, Volume 1|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-19-530661-3|page=352|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aF-Mpm9JDogC&pg=PA352}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Hunt, Stephen|chapter=class conflict|editor1=Ritzer, George |editor2=Ryan, J. Michael|title=The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4051-8353-6|page=66|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dz4wU64f_JYC&pg=PA66}}</ref>