Peter Kivisto illustrates in his book, Social Theory: Roots and Branches, which Marx claims the property is upheld by the state, making “property struggles become political struggles” between owners and renters, capitalists and workers, and other groups as reported in a study of. For Marx, the conflict has arisen due to all valuable things resulting by people from human labor (1991). Class …show more content…
According to Marx, capitalists exploit workers for their labor without sharing any labors equally. Hence, the exploitation occurs; it is what allows the owning classes to dominate and impose their ideology politically on the workers around the world (Garner and Hancock 2014). Furthermore, with Friedrich Engels, Marx claims that “A capitalist society is a society of class inequality, like most societies that preceded it in history” (2014:39). Indeed, the class of capitalists, which is also known as bourgeoisie, particularly enrages Marx. It is said that members of the bourgeoisie “own the means of production” and “exploit the class of laborers” which is called the proletariat; of course, they do not own the means of production as reported in Garner and Hancock’s study (P. 41). Marx, in addition, believes that the bourgeoisie and the proletariat inescapably were “accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class” (p. 44). From my perspective, Marx gradually predicts that the laborers are destined to overthrow the capitalists. Inequality then affects people and knowledge. That is why Kenneth Allan (2012) concludes in his book, Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World, regarding Karl Marx’s class conflict that: “Private property and slave labor came into existence, as well as significant class inequality” (p. 79). As the class struggle later on nears the