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    Marx believed social stratification is created by unequal access to productive property, with some owning it and others laboring for wages. In Marxist theory, the capitalist mode of production consists of relations between the ruling bourgeoisie who own means of production, and the working proletariat who must sell their labor for wages. This forms the substructure which shapes society's superstructure of ideas and culture.

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    Marx's View of Class Differentiation

    In the Marxist perspective, social stratification is created by


    unequal property relations, or unequal access to the means of
    production.

    In Marx's view, social stratification is created by people's differing


    relationship to the means of production: either they own productive
    property or they labor for others.

    In Marxist theory, the capitalist mode of production consists of two main


    economic parts: the substructure and the Superstructure. In a capitalist
    society, the ruling class, or the bourgeoisie, owns the means of
    production, such as machines or tools that can be used to produce
    valuable objects. The working class, or the proletariat, only possess their
    own labor power, which they sell to the ruling class in the form of wage
    labor to survive. These relations of production—employer-employee
    relations, the technical division of labor, and property relations—form
    the base of society or, in Marxist terms, the substructure. From this
    material substructure, the superstructure emerges. The superstructure
    includes the ideas, philosophies and culture of a society. In a capitalist
    society, the ruling class promotes its own ideologies and values as the
    norm for the entire society, and these ideas and values are accepted by
    the working class.

    A temporary status quo could be achieved by employing various


    methods of social control—consciously or unconsciously— the ruling
    class in various aspects of social life. Eventually, however, Marx
    believed the capitalist economic order would erode, through its own
    internal conflict; this would lead to revolutionary consciousness and the
    development of egalitarian communist society. In this communist
    society, the state would own the means of production, and it would
    equally distribute resources to all citizens. The means of production
    would be shared by all members of society, and social stratification
    would be abolished.
    Marx Memorial in Moscow

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