Class: Difference between revisions
Created/expanded by automated agent (ComradeBanana task) |
Azadsingh2 (talk | contribs) Human approved integration |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''Class''' is | '''Class''' is the objective and concrete division of society based on the [[division of labor]]. | ||
Classes, from the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] point of view, are primarily defined by their respective relations to [[production]]. | |||
Every society in history so far has been a form of '''class society''':<ref>"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (The Communist Manifesto)</ref> in [[slavery]], the [[Master/Slave dialectic|master and slave]]; in [[feudalism]], the lord and serf; in [[capitalism]], the [[bourgeoisie]] and [[proletariat]]. In [[socialism]], which [[sublation|sublates]] capitalism, the proletariat becomes the ruling class and seeks to end the cyclical becoming of class society by putting the [[means of production]] in the peoples' hands. | |||
Each stage of class society develops unevenly, and each develops differently according to its local conditions. Secondary or non-principle classes have existed since the beginning of class society as well; there are some transitional periods and features of each stage of class society which develop over their lives; and further, there are [[discursive|discursions]] which cause rapid or even immediate transition to further stages, such as Russian or Chinese serfdom's quick transformations into socialism, or American slavery's transition into capitalism. | |||
== From the streams == | == From the streams == | ||
| Line 6: | Line 12: | ||
* The patriotic resolution ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/black-lenin/sevzfpn19fy/ Twitter Space on CPUSA]): "You recognize the contradiction between the material soil of your country and the ruling class and the state that represents it... I'm not giving up on the American people." The nation isn't the enemy of class politics; '''the ruling class''' is ([[State]], [[Labor Aristocracy]]). | * The patriotic resolution ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/black-lenin/sevzfpn19fy/ Twitter Space on CPUSA]): "You recognize the contradiction between the material soil of your country and the ruling class and the state that represents it... I'm not giving up on the American people." The nation isn't the enemy of class politics; '''the ruling class''' is ([[State]], [[Labor Aristocracy]]). | ||
== | == By mode of production== | ||
=== Primitive Communism === | |||
The fundamental division of labor was based on sexual difference (men and women had different jobs owing to a difference in relation to the reproduction of the tribe/humanity).<ref>The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State</ref> | |||
=== Capitalism === | |||
The stage in which class society rots and decays once and for all is capitalism; the stage which takes it's place and paves the road out of class society is (the mode of production of) [[socialism]]. The real movement of the people, the seizure of [[private property]] and the [[sublation]] of the bourgeois state by the proletarian class, is [[Communism]]. | |||
=== Socialism === | |||
[[Karl Marx]] said that socialism will first appear very similar to capitalism. [[Deng Xiaoping]] said "to get rich is glorious." | |||
[[Category: | ==References== | ||
[[Category: WIP]] | |||
[[Category: Social class]] | |||
[[Category: Marxism]] | |||
[[Category: Theory]] | |||
Revision as of 03:39, 26 August 2026
Class is the objective and concrete division of society based on the division of labor.
Classes, from the Marxist-Leninist point of view, are primarily defined by their respective relations to production.
Every society in history so far has been a form of class society:[1] in slavery, the master and slave; in feudalism, the lord and serf; in capitalism, the bourgeoisie and proletariat. In socialism, which sublates capitalism, the proletariat becomes the ruling class and seeks to end the cyclical becoming of class society by putting the means of production in the peoples' hands.
Each stage of class society develops unevenly, and each develops differently according to its local conditions. Secondary or non-principle classes have existed since the beginning of class society as well; there are some transitional periods and features of each stage of class society which develop over their lives; and further, there are discursions which cause rapid or even immediate transition to further stages, such as Russian or Chinese serfdom's quick transformations into socialism, or American slavery's transition into capitalism.
From the streams
- Against identity-substitution: the online left replacing class with identity categories is the professional-managerial stratum's own class interest dressed as universal morality. Haz on the adversaries (RED PILL NEWS | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream): pan-leftists hostile to MAGA Communism "because it undermines their kind of class position as institutional gatekeepers."
- Against vulgar economism (FBI AFTER ME! stream): modes of production as living organisms with cycles of reproduction — class is a relation within the organism, not an income bracket.
- The patriotic resolution (Twitter Space on CPUSA): "You recognize the contradiction between the material soil of your country and the ruling class and the state that represents it... I'm not giving up on the American people." The nation isn't the enemy of class politics; the ruling class is (State, Labor Aristocracy).
By mode of production
Primitive Communism
The fundamental division of labor was based on sexual difference (men and women had different jobs owing to a difference in relation to the reproduction of the tribe/humanity).[2]
Capitalism
The stage in which class society rots and decays once and for all is capitalism; the stage which takes it's place and paves the road out of class society is (the mode of production of) socialism. The real movement of the people, the seizure of private property and the sublation of the bourgeois state by the proletarian class, is Communism.
Socialism
Karl Marx said that socialism will first appear very similar to capitalism. Deng Xiaoping said "to get rich is glorious."