Karl Marx Social Conflict Theory

Introduction

What term to associate the name Karl Marx what itself a question in the initial years, a historian, a philosopher, a social scientist or a revolutionary. It was hard to associate the name with any of the terms until the 19th century when finally it was this name which was known to be as most of the most influential social scientist. In his lifetime people were did not accept the idea that he was portraying but after his death which took place in 1883, people started adopting to the idea he based his theory upon.

Karl Marx was born in a middle class family in Germany on 5th may, 1818.His father was considered as a respected lawyer in the Trier. His mother was from Holland, both the father and mother were Jewish and belonged from

In order to understand his idea one needs to understand what a class is, so a class can be defined as a collection of individuals which forms a group and these individuals share common characteristics, which means that they have same taste, same behavior, same interest and same status quo which is a result of their living standards and the income they earn. Although ethnic or racial similarity has nothing to do with status but he considered it to be a factor at times. A group can be further divided into two, one with power and the other without power so the one that have power, they will always try that they can maintain that power, also their ultimate aim would be finding out ways by with they can grow that power, this would what would happen is that they would be in a better state to suppress those who have no power, in employment this could be in terms of setting a set wage payment. There are the one who have influence on the no power ones and lead those to a state where they feel powerlessness. An example here that is usually given is of the ant colony which has no other way out when it is being suppressed the foot coming towards itself, here the foot by a person is the powerful

The bourgeoisies was considered to be the management or the upper class whereas the proletariat was the working class or labor class. In order to understand the idea that Marx’s was portraying it was very important to understand the two groups that he said were there in every system. A real life example in this context can be of an industrial plant where the means of production belong to the powerful group the bourgeoisies who themselves sit idle and exploit the no power group, excersining control, over them, this no power group is involved in the production of goods in return of which they are paid a minimal amount whereas the owners of these production units sells the same goods into the market and generate an optimal amount of revenue from the sale. A similar example can be seen in the case of landlords who are the owners of the farms. The labor class is the one that is involved in the cultivation of the land and are paid very less whereas the actual profit goes to the owner of the land who in this example is the powerful