... many, only beneficial to the small group of capitalists. Though irrational, Marx believed that capitalism was able to exist due to the sense of false consciousness which it conveys. Marx defines this false consciousness as the explanation of social problems as the fault of an individual's ... which production is carried out in a society (Giddens, Sociology, 1993: 757). He considered that a class is made of people who have a common relationship to the means of production. For example, Marx defined two classes in a capitalist system, the capitalists and the proletariats. As discussed in th...

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