class struggle

Class Struggle may refer to:

• Class conflict, a conflict between socio-economic groups
• A board game, whose theme is the above, developed by Bertell Ollman
• The Class Struggle, an American left socialist magazine 1917-1919
• Class Struggle, the newspaper of the American Trotskyist group Spark
• Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield, an episode of The Simpsons

Class conflict, frequently referred to as class warfare or class struggle, is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests and desires between people of different classes. The view that the class struggle provides the lever for radical social change for the majority is central to the work of Karl Marx and the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.