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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Marx: Conflict Theory. Society is always about struggle, conflict, and competition among humans - not just for resources, but also for status and control.
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Sorry about this, but seeing as this is actually quite connected to my view of peace I thought I might as well correct a small flaw in Timber's description. Marxist theory is that of Class struggle, not struggle amongst people as such. Peace is unattainable due to the struggle between classes, when there are no more classes then there will be peace. The class struggle does, however, breed struggle between workers in order to divide them, and there is naturally struggle between capitalists in an attempt to keep their monopoly on the machinery of production. But ultimately, if you eradicate class struggle then war goes with it. So peace is not only possible, but inevitable. Thats my opinion, but its backed up by quite a lot of work by various people. But then again... isn't everything?
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