Abstract

In this article, I analyze Class Struggle in Alice Munro’s selected short stories using Marxism as the main theory and Sociological theory of conflict as the supporting theory. Whilst, the method is qualitative content analysis in that I interpret and explain attitudes, behavior, and words of the characters in the texts through the theory of Marxism as the main theory and sociological theory of conflict as the supporting one. The result of this study is that the characters undergo class struggle caused by factors of their struggle. Change after the class struggle is visible, instead. Keywords : class struggle, conflict. DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/70-06 Publication date: July 31 st 2020

Highlights

  • Class struggle can happen because of the relationship between the capitalists and the wage laborers, the relationship which gives more advantages to one class but gives more disadvantages to the other class. Marx has expressed his idea that class struggle can happen at national level if one class enrich themselves at the cost of another class through the exploitation and oppression (Lasurdo, 2016:12)

  • Because capital continually produces new requirements for unfamiliar supplies and re-orders the hierarchy of requirements of workers, capital produces workers with the requirement to possess and the requirement for money. This product of new requirements is exactly this side of the relation of capital and labor which is a contradictory product leading to class struggle (Lebowitz, 2003:179-180)

  • Analysis and Discussion Dahrendorf (1959:10-14), in Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society, elaborates capitalist mode of production that forms classes in society consisting of wage laborers, capitalists, and landowners

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Introduction

Class struggle can happen because of the relationship between the capitalists and the wage laborers, the relationship which gives more advantages to one class but gives more disadvantages to the other class. It is understandable that imperialism dominates area/areas politically and economically, there will be two social stratifications looked at from economic point of view: the dominator and the dominated people, the former has a great capital to build their economy/those with a lot of property/rich people, whilst, the latter are the majority people that sell their labor power to the capitalist/those with little property/poor people, due to which Marxism comes up.

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