If Marx had stopped with demonstrating the historical inevitability of class society along with the growth of productive forces, his work could have been even used to legitimize class exploitation and class rule. But Marx did not stop with this. His outstanding contribution lay precisely in demonstrating that class societies in human history are neither natural nor eternal, and that each class society contained the seeds of its dissolution and overcoming by a new, higher level of human development, and that the dynamic through which this process takes place is that of class struggle.
Marx’s unique contribution was to identify the key class - the key historical agent – that would overthrow a prevailing class society to lead the new society that replaces it. Thus was Marx able
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The continuing relevance of Marx has been dramatically demonstrated by the current crisis of contemporary capitalism. Marx had made several important observations about the laws of motion of capitalism. He had made the point that as capitalist competition progresses, centralization and concentration of capital would inevitably occur. This would lead to ever increasing monopolization. Competition among capitalists and the class struggle between labor and capital would lead to increasing mechanization, which would constantly create and replenish a reserve army of labor, an expanding pool of workers who would go in and out of employment. An increasing proportion of them would become permanently unemployed. These processes of capitalist accumulation would concentrate wealth and income in fewer and fewer hands, while inequalities will increase enormously. Marx made the