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class struggles

class struggles is the plural of class struggle.

Meaning of class struggle

Noun

class struggle (usually uncountable, plural class struggles)

  1. (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.
    • 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...
    Antonyms:
    class collaboration

Questions about class struggles

What is class struggles the plural of?
Class struggles is the plural of class struggle.

Words near class struggles in the dictionary

  1. class ring
  2. class rings
  3. class secretaries
  4. class secretary
  5. class struggle
  6. class struggles
  7. class suit
  8. class suits
  9. class tourism
  10. class tourist
  11. class tourists

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