INTRODUCTION
The struggle among social classes for the control of state power has
been the propelling force in the development of many societies. Development
here is taken to mean qualitative change in the productive forces and
production relations that give rise to the production of more goods, creation
of needs and ways of meeting such needs. In the process of production,
consumption and distribution of material values in the society, such as food,
shelter, clothes etc, and people get polarized into major two contending
classes over the ownership and control of the means of production. On the one
hand are those who own and control the means of production are member of the
bourgeois class, while on the other are those have no means of production are
member of the oppressed/proletarian class.
The basis
of the struggle between the two classes is the control of the state so as to
determine social policies especially, the authoritative allocation of values
and scarce resources. While the oppressed class agitates for a new social order
that ensure fairly equitable distribution of resources, the bourgeois class
preoccupies itself with maintaining their class advantage, by extension the
structural inequality............
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