Editing Class

'''Class''' is the objective and concrete division of society based on the [[division of labor]].

Classes, from the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] point of view, are primarily defined by their respective relations to [[production]].

Every society in history so far has been a form of '''class society''':<ref>"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (The Communist Manifesto)</ref> in [[slavery]], the [[Master/Slave dialectic|master and slave]]; in [[feudalism]], the lord and serf; in [[capitalism]], the [[bourgeoisie]] and [[proletariat]]. In [[socialism]], which [[sublation|sublates]] capitalism, the proletariat becomes the ruling class and seeks to end the cyclical becoming of class society by putting the [[means of production]] in the peoples' hands.

Each stage of class society develops unevenly, and each develops differently according to its local conditions. Secondary or non-principle classes have existed since the beginning of class society as well; there are some transitional periods and features of each stage of class society which develop over their lives; and further, there are [[discursive|discursions]] which cause rapid or even immediate transition to further stages, such as Russian or Chinese serfdom's quick transformations into socialism, or American slavery's transition into capitalism.

== Primitive Communism ==

The fundamental division of labor was based on sexual difference (men and women had different jobs owing to a difference in relation to the reproduction of the tribe/humanity).<ref>The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State</ref>

== Slavery ==

== Feudalism ==

== Capitalism ==

The stage in which class society rots and decays once and for all is capitalism; the stage which takes it's place and paves the road out of class society is (the mode of production of) [[socialism]]. The real movement of the people, the seizure of [[private property]] and the [[sublation]] of the bourgeois state by the proletarian class, is [[Communism]].

== Socialism ==

[[Karl Marx]] said that socialism will first appear very similar to capitalism. [[Deng Xiaoping]] said "to get rich is glorious."