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Detailed explanation-1: -Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes-specifically between the bourgeoisie, or capitalists, and the proletariat, or workers-defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will lead inevitably to a communist revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Karl Marx based his conflict theory on the idea that modern society has only two classes of people: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie are the owners of the means of production: the factories, businesses, and equipment needed to produce wealth. The proletariat are the workers.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Marxist theory, the capitalist stage of production consists of two main classes: the bourgeoisie, the capitalists who own the means of production, and the much larger proletariat (or ‘working class’) who must sell their own labour power (See also: wage labour).

Detailed explanation-4: -Marx basically argued that the capitalist class structure would gradually be simplified into 2 great social classes, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat as other social classes moved either upwards into the Bourgeoisie or downwards into the Proletariat . This was Marx’s theory of Class Polarisation .