... 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 inadequacies, rather than sociological flaws existing in the capitalist society (Macionis, 1997: 78). 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. As quoted in Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, pa...

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