Antagonisms, conflicts and struggles between classes with fundamentally opposing economic interests, specifically the struggle of the oppressed and exploited classes against the oppressing and exploiting classes in class society, the basic means of resolving the contradictions between oppressing and oppressed, exploiting and exploited antagonistic classes. If there are classes, there must be class struggle. Engels pointed out that all past history, with the exception of its primitive stages, was the history of class struggles. Mao Zedong also pointed out that classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. Class struggle is the manifestation of irreconcilable class interests, the immediate driving force of the development of class society…
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