Marx And Marx's History Of Class Conflict In Society

For Marx, the society history of class was a history of class conflict. He observed the successful rise of the bourgeoisie, and the essential of revolutionary violence. He says that the heightened form of class conflict securing the bourgeoisie rights that supported the capitalist economy. Marx believed that the poverty inherent in capitalism were a pre-existing form of class conflict. He assumed those wage laborers are in need to revolt to bring about a more equitable distribution of wealth and political power.

Another important feature that stands to influence class conflict is Race. The association of particular ethnic groups with class statuses is common in many societies. As a result of conquest or internal ethnic differentiation, a ruling class is often racially homogenous and particular races or ethnic groups in some societies are legally or customarily restricted to occupying particular class positions. Which ethnicities are considered as belonging to high or low classes varies from society to society.

Spivak’s expansion of particular ethnic group with the definition for the term subaltern includes class based definition which subjected to manipulate the status of women. Hence the Spivak flexible use of the term denotes broader range of social group and positions, including subsistence farmers, unorganized peasant movements, tribal group and the urban sup-proletariat the expansion of subaltern women emphasis how the subalterns are not only subjected to the firm class systemriarchal discourse of religion, colonial and family system, but also to the part. Morten views Gilbert’s thinking and says,

Spivak extends the reach of the term [subaltern] in essay like ‘can subaltern speak?’ by using it to figure social group ‘further...

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... Robert Young emphasizes, Spivak’s thought revise and adapt the categories of Marxist thought apart from the narrow terms of class politics that consist of other forms of liberation struggles, and as the women’s movement, the peasant’s struggles or the rights of the indigenous minorities. The analysis in nineteenth-century Europe, Karl Marx’s Capitalism was rethinks by Spivak and says,

The transformation in economic and social relations between the property-owning classes (or the bourgeoisies) and the working class (or the proletariat) formed the basis for his model of social and historical change. As Spivak points out, however, this historical account of how middle-class colonized subjects became national subjects after colonialism, but it does not account for the lives and struggles of other disempowered groups, including peasants, women and indigenous group. (52)