ABSTRACT
In the course of their writings, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels talk about many different struggles of the working class: The Communists fight for the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class. The class struggle would seem to include only a bare majority or less of the population on the side of the working class. Political action works at cross-purposes with the class struggle. Class struggle is the only source of revolutionary change. Members of the ruling class hold the positions of power and importance in industry, in commerce, and, in some cases, in the government. The struggle against a ruling class affects more than just working conditions and thus is carried on not just by workers. The extensive powers of any given ruling class concern the lives of everyone in the population in different ways, and thus many different groups at times participate to challenge the power of the ruling class.
