2003,+Tweedie,+Class+Struggle+Simplified

= **Class Struggle Simplified*** =


 * || **Feudalism** || ► || **Capitalism** || ► || **Socialism** ||
 * || Past || || Present ||  || Future ||
 * **Ruling Class** || King and Lords || || Bourgeois ||  || Working Class ||
 * **Also known as** || Traditional Leadership, Monarchy, Autocracy, Tsarism || || Capitalists, Bosses, Burgers, Free Enterprise ||  || Proletariat ||
 * **Characteristic** || Fixed, static, hierarchical, brain-dead. || || At first, revolutionary and progressive, later conservative and reactionary ||  || Revolutionary ||
 * **Ideology** || Superstition, mysticism, idealism, religion, scholasticism. || || At first, humanist, rational, scientific, then later irrational, idealist, obscurantist. ||  || Materialist, humanist, dialectical, progressive. ||
 * **Location** || Rural || || Urban ||  || Reunites town & country ||
 * **Relations** || Violence and paternalism. Private land-ownership hardly allowed. || || Capital exploits labour (ownership private, production social). ||  || Social (alienation of production from ownership is ended). ||
 * **Production** || Basic || || Industrial ||  || Advanced ||
 * **Origin** || Roman Empire (slavery, idle proletariat, military) || || Towns within feudalism ||  || Capitalist organisation of labour. ||
 * **Usual Alliances** || Imperialism, finance capital || || At first, proletariat. Later, feudal remnants ||  || Against feudalism - the bourgeoisie. Against Imperialism - the national bourgeoisie. ||
 * **Final form** || Constitutional Monarchy || || Imperialism ||  || Communism ||
 * **Co-exists with** || Capitalists in towns, free peasants and petty bourgeois. || || Proletariat, petty bourgeois, lumpen-proletariat, feudal remnants. ||  || Remains of all previous classes. Socialism works to abolish class division altogether. ||
 * **The State** || Globalist hierarchy with the Pope at the top. || || Nation-state with monopoly of violence. ||  || Nation-state as defence against Imperialism; but after world-wide abolition of class, no state as we know it is required. ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **Production** || Basic || || Industrial ||  || Advanced ||
 * **Origin** || Roman Empire (slavery, idle proletariat, military) || || Towns within feudalism ||  || Capitalist organisation of labour. ||
 * **Usual Alliances** || Imperialism, finance capital || || At first, proletariat. Later, feudal remnants ||  || Against feudalism - the bourgeoisie. Against Imperialism - the national bourgeoisie. ||
 * **Final form** || Constitutional Monarchy || || Imperialism ||  || Communism ||
 * **Co-exists with** || Capitalists in towns, free peasants and petty bourgeois. || || Proletariat, petty bourgeois, lumpen-proletariat, feudal remnants. ||  || Remains of all previous classes. Socialism works to abolish class division altogether. ||
 * **The State** || Globalist hierarchy with the Pope at the top. || || Nation-state with monopoly of violence. ||  || Nation-state as defence against Imperialism; but after world-wide abolition of class, no state as we know it is required. ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **Final form** || Constitutional Monarchy || || Imperialism ||  || Communism ||
 * **Co-exists with** || Capitalists in towns, free peasants and petty bourgeois. || || Proletariat, petty bourgeois, lumpen-proletariat, feudal remnants. ||  || Remains of all previous classes. Socialism works to abolish class division altogether. ||
 * **The State** || Globalist hierarchy with the Pope at the top. || || Nation-state with monopoly of violence. ||  || Nation-state as defence against Imperialism; but after world-wide abolition of class, no state as we know it is required. ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **The State** || Globalist hierarchy with the Pope at the top. || || Nation-state with monopoly of violence. ||  || Nation-state as defence against Imperialism; but after world-wide abolition of class, no state as we know it is required. ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||
 * **//*N.B. Class struggle is never simple!//** ||


 * A full set of political economies (modes of production) would go from Primitive Communism (Savagery) through Barbarism, Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism to Communism again.**