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The ruling class exploits and oppresses the subject class causing conflict between them. Bourdieu says that the rich and powerful are favoured and the working class are duped into accepting their failure. Surprisingly the ruling and subjective class actually have a mutual dependence on eachother. Wage labourers need to sell their labour power in order to survive however without them there is no production, therefore the ruling upper class who own the means of production also need the labourers in order to survive. Yet despite this mutual dependence the relationship between these two social groups is in no way equal. This is the main focus for Marxists, however they have been criticized for being too focused on class and not looking at other factors of inequality such as
