One of the most powerful sociological explanations of social conflict is that of Karl Marx, who posited a

class struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie intrinsic to capitalist, industrial society. This notion is
powerful in being dynamic, intuitively persuasive, and appearing to fit well with history. It is powerful in
providing in one package a description, an explanation, and a prediction of contemporary problems, and
a remedy.

According to Marx, “Class is the manifestation of economic differentiation.” In Marx’s view, the
dialectical nature of history is expressed in class struggle. With the development of capitalism, the class
struggle takes an acute form. Two basic classes, around which other less important classes are grouped,
oppose each other in the capitalist system: the owners of the means of production, or bourgeoisie, and
the workers, or proletariat. “The bourgeoisie produces its own grave-diggers. The fall of the bourgeoisie
and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable” (The Communist Manifesto) because the
bourgeois relations of production are the last contradictory form of the process of social production,
contradictory not in the sense of an individual contradiction, but of a contradiction that is born of the
conditions of social existence of individuals; however, the forces of production which develop in the
midst of bourgeois society create at the same time the material conditions for resolving this
contradiction. With this social development the prehistory of human society ends.

According to Raymond Aron, “the classes are the principal actors in the historical drama of capitalism in
particular and of history in general.”
Living in the society is not free from problems. Human being was created to face the problems. There
are many problems that always present in the society. Injustice is one of
the big problems that exist in the world. Injustice is the phenomena in the society. In the real life
injustice can be seen in a society, the injustice varies such as the political injustice, economical injustice
and social injustice. Social injustice is concept relating to the perceived unfairness or injustice of society
in its division of rewards and burdens.
Individual justice can be achieved by standing up for one’s beliefs and holding strongly to them. Social
justice is a different case. Social justice is a workers strike for better w ages, a march for equality or
something in that area. Social Justice is achieved by
strength in numbers, and being relentless to achieve their cause.
The concept is distinct from those justices in law, which may not be considered moral in practice.
Opposition to social injustice is increasingly a platform of emerging political parties. Social injustice
arises when equality treated unequally. The problem of the social injustice is phenomena of life that
deals with condition of the society that perceived
unfairness or the situation that peoples do not getting their due. Each time someone
cheats you out of what you deserve, there has been injustice. Other people can treat you unjustly. But
at least your tormentors normally are working in their own self-interest.
They are not pretending to be fair, or to be working on your behalf. When your own
government acts unjustly, it is all the more galling. The Injustice Line will focus mainly
on injustices committed by the government, especially those arising from the court system. The
condition above is appearing the problem of the social injustice.

According to Bendex and Lipset, “A social class in Marx’s terms is any aggregate of persons who perform
the same function in the organization of production.”
The concept of class struggle, though not originally propounded by Karl Marx, is yet one of his great
contributions to Sociology. To Marx, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class
struggle.” (The first line of communist manifesto (1848) reads.)
Bendex and Lipset have identified five variables that determine a class in the Marxian sense:
1. Conflicts over the distribution of economic rewards between the classes.
2. Easy communication between the individuals in the same class position so that ideas and action
programs are readily disseminated.
3. Growth of class consciousness in the sense that the members of the class have a feeling of solidarity
and understanding of their historical role.
4. Profound dissatisfaction in the lower class over its inability to control the economic structure of which
it feels itself to be the exploited victim.
5. Establishment of a political organization resulting from the economic structure, the historical situation
and maturation of class-consciousness.