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Critically evaluate Marx's analysis of socialclass.
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Critically evaluate Marx's analysis of social class. Marx considered that social class was an economic phenomenon deriving from the different ownerships of the means of production, 'the way jobs are used to produce wages and land to produce food and fuel constitutes the means of production (lands and capital).'1 All human beings, according to Marx, must employ the means of production; as a result, social class has been seen into two separate groups: one is the ruling class-a class owns and controls the means of production, also known as bourgeoisie. The other is called the subject class, they have no means of production apart from selling their labour power to the bourgeoisie, and Marx called it the proletariat. 'Only one class are owners of the means of production, while the other is subject to those who rule over them.'2 A fundamental class conflict between labour and capital due to the exploitation...
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