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Class State and Crime Social Conflict Perspective

Apolitical economy based on increasing capital is bond for class struggle between the working class and the owners. The ironic thing about capitalism is that the capitalist class needs the expansion of productivity from the workers to gain a surplus value.The dynamics of capitalism is the struggle between classes. The principle classes of any capital society, at the various stages of development, are the classes whose interrelations determine the essence of the mode of production. (Afanassyev, page 66) The composition of the principle classes has been undergoing changes in recent decades of capitalist development. These changes have come about due to modern scientific and technological advances and with new demands of capitalist accumulation.The most important thing however in the development of advanced capitalism is the expansion of the labor class. The changes in the labor force from manual to clerical changes the class structure of advanced capitalism. However, the capitalist class is also divided into several fractions. Two major fractions are those who own and control the units of the economy as opposed to those whose holdings are less than that of the uppermost sector of the class. The upper division, the monopoly sector, owns the large corporations and financial institutions. These capitalist of the upper divisions control and influence most if not all of the worlds economy. This is only one percent of the population, whereas, eighty percent are in the working class, but the upper division weald all the power.Once someone resists the notion that such a small portion of the population should hold all the power they are immediately labeled as being criminal an enemy of the state. Instead of an enemy they were only standing up and speaking out against the oppression of capitalism and the task becomes a political awaking of the people about the oppression of the power that be. Politically conscious action in such a fashion becomes...

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