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Classless
society is a society that does not have a hierarchy of different social classes and in
which individuals have similar resources of wealth, status and power.
Classless society is found in simple hunter-gatherer societies
(like the pygmies of Zaire) and also a socialist vision of a future society founded on
collective ownership of the means of production.
The building of a classless socialist society is also a gigantic
process of remolding all aspects of social life. It involves constant revolutionary change
not only in the relations of production, the mode of distribution, the work process, the
forms of administration of the economy and society, the customs, habits and ways of
thinking of the great majority of people, but also fundamental reconstruction of all
living conditions.- reconstruction of cities, reunification of manual and intellectual
labor, complete revolution of the education system, restoration and defense of the
ecological equilibrium, technological revolutions designed to conserve scarce natural
resources, etc.
Classless society is Marxist term. According to Marxist theory,
tribal society, primitive communism, was classless.
There are three societies that followed the classless tribal society. First, there was
ancient society, in which the major class distinction was between master and slave. Then,
there was feudal society, in which lord and serf played the roles of class war. The last
stage of class society, is bourgeois society, or capitalism, in which it has been
simplified to owner and worker. According to Marx, there should be a classless society
once again at the end of the development, which would negate class society, the negation
of the negation, in Hegelian terms.
Towards a Classless Society under the Hammer and Sickle
Thomas Woody
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 182, Education for
Social Control (Nov., 1935), pp. 140-152
The Labour Party and the Classless Society 1991; Today's Education and Training:
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