MARX Vs WEBER ON SOCIAL CLASS Karl Marx (1818-83) was a socialist who hoped for a fairer society. For Marx class struggle was at the heart of social change. He writes, The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now …showed first 75 words of 1387 total…

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