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The class struggle is something fundamental.

The class struggle comes from the contradiction between differing class interests that are at odds with each other, not some moral good vs bad scenario.

In the case of our society today, the primary class struggle is between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

Western Marxists tend to come into Communism with a moralistic depraved worldview where they want to destroy everything. They at heart are anarchistic. When they analyse history they think that everything ‘bourgeois’ is bad, even though from a materialist perspective in the past, the bourgeoisie were at one point a progressive force in history.

They think that the class struggle comes from the bourgeoisie being bad, but this is wrong because this notion leads to reformism as it implies that if the bourgeoisie would just be ‘nice’ that things would be fine and nothing would be wrong. This is why that notion must be fought against and why real class analysis is necessary.

Of course the relation the bourgeoisie has to the worker is bad (and it is necessary that us workers must organise collectively to get gains for our class from the bosses, as that is the only way for us to get to the negotiation table) but the point here is that it comes from something fundamental, as in the differing class interests which are completely at odds, akin to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic. It does not come down from the sky or from binary good or bad.