Classical Marxism explains all conflicts through economic class struggle.

Evidence

“Classical” Marxism is characterized as a mode of explanation which assumes that all the various instances of conflict are subsumable within and dominated by the class struggle. Classes are defined by economic position—loosely, in terms of the distinction between “owners and non-owners” of the means of production. They are economic groups “in themselves” which can be organized, through the pursuit of their distinct class interests in competing market situations, by means of the class struggle, to become “classes-for-themselves.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 595

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisp statement of the classical Marxist model (class-in-itself to class-for-itself) that Hall subsequently distances from.
• XREF: connects to: Marxists assumed working-class pressure drove all egalitarian gains — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2137; Marxist theory provides a critical framework for analyzing class struggle’s influence on cultural practices — Marxism and Cultural Studies: A Critical Analysis; Marxist theory reduces racial conflict to class conflict within production relations — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 76 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marxists assumed working-class pressure drove all egalitarian gains — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2137; Marxist theory provides a critical framework for analyzing class struggle’s influence on cultural practices — Marxism and Cultural Studies: A Critical Analysis; Marxist theory reduces racial conflict to class conflict within production relations — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 76 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Marx treated the proletariat and class struggle as ideological constructs #complicates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 276
• Marx always treated economics as political economy and human interaction #complicates (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 490