Dictionary

class struggle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes); the active expression of a theoretical class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective.
   • This last point is particularly dear to Marx with his emphasis on the relation of surplus labor to the length of the working day and to class struggle over conditions of production <…>, both of which disappear from view in Sraffa. 2016, Anwar Shaikh, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 427:
   • Fundamentalists do not deny that the class struggle, even as this might manifest itself in tepid ‘business unionism’, plays a role in articulating the crisis tendencies of the capitalist economy. 2019, Murray E. G. Smith, Invisible Leviathan: Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism, →ISBN, page 190:
   • In his letter of 5 March 1852 to Joseph Weydemeyer, Marx declares that it was not he who discovered the existence of classes or the class struggle […] 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 352:

Forms

Antonyms

class collaboration

Relateds

class war

Translations (33)

tl makauring pakikibaka (struggle between classes) · et klassivõitlus (struggle between classes) · kk таптық күрес (struggle between classes) · ru кла́ссовая борьба́ (struggle between classes) · kk тап тартысы (struggle between classes) · yi קלאַסנקאַמף (struggle between classes) · da klassekamp (struggle between classes) · ro luptă de clasă (struggle between classes) · ko 계급투쟁 (struggle between classes) · de Klassenkampf (struggle between classes) · sk triedny boj (struggle between classes) · no klassekamp (struggle between classes) · ja 階級闘争 (struggle between classes) · tl tunggalian ng uri (struggle between classes) · es lucha de clases (struggle between classes) · cmn 階級鬥爭 /阶级斗争 (struggle between classes) · el πάλη των τάξεων (struggle between classes) · fi luokkataistelu (struggle between classes) · ar صراع الطبقات (struggle between classes) · cs třidní boj (struggle between classes) · hu osztályharc (struggle between classes) · fr lutte des classes (struggle between classes) · pt luta de classes (struggle between classes) · tr sınıf mücadelesi (struggle between classes) · sv klasskamp (struggle between classes) · el ταξική πάλη (struggle between classes) · it lotta di classe (struggle between classes) · vi đấu tranh giai cấp (struggle between classes) · sl razredni boj (struggle between classes) · id perjuangan kelas (struggle between classes) · nl klassenstrijd (struggle between classes) · pl walka klas (struggle between classes) · vo komip bevü sogäts (struggle between classes)