This materialistic approach to the understanding of capitalism lead to Marx's ideas of class conflict as the motivational force driving sociological change throughout history. ... These slaves and peasants became the exploited labour force of the elite, and social conflict between the land-owning elite and the slave labour class was created. ...

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Once realized, this brand of political association would be one which "will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before". ...

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