Marxist Critical Theory: Class Conflict & Slavery Class conflict also referred to as Class Antagonism , Class Warfare and Class Struggle is a very significant concept from Marxist theory which speaks of the socioeconomic contradiction between the working class and capitalists. Capitalist or Bourgeoisie is the one who owns means of production as private property, like a factory, mill or an industry et cetera and Proletariat or worker is one who sells their labour to Capitalist for wages in return and is consequently alienated from the very aspects of humanity. It's clear that a capitalist always makes more from the labour of the worker than what the worker gets paid, that's how capitalist exploitation works, So, what he extracts from the worker's labour is known as Surplus Value. Such economic competition and contradiction among social classes; ie. proletariat and bourgeoisie- causes Class Warfare which can be observed in forms of Direct Violence and Indirect Violence. Direct Violence includes revolution, assassination, w…
