ABSTRACT
Domestic politics has become the politics of collective bargaining. History has validated a basic premise of Marxist sociology at the expense of Marxist politics. Marxist sociology assumes that cultural superstructures, including political behavior and status relationships, are a function of the underlying economic and technological structure. The linkage between level of industrial development and other political and social institutions is obviously not a simple one. The history of changes in political ideologies in democratic countries, from this point of view, can be written in terms of the emergency of new strata, and this eventual integration in society and polity. The transformation in class attitudes as reflected in political and interest group behavior is most noticeable in northern non-Latin Europe and among the socialist and Roman Catholic political parties. There are many sources of political strain within stable democratic societies. The stratification systems of all inherently involve a grossly inequalitarian distribution of status, income, and power.
