Classicide is a concept proposed by sociologist Michael Mann to describe the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a social class through persecution and violence. Although it
A Soviet parade between 1929 and 1934 under the banners "We will liquidate the kulaks as a class" and "All to the struggle against the wreckers of agriculture"
Bolsheviks in 1918 in Petrograd under a propaganda poster saying "Death to the bourgeoisie and its lapdogs – Long live the Red Terror!!"
A wealthy farmer in front of a Chinese Communist "people's court" in Fogang County, Guangdong Province on July 23, 1952 during the Land Reform Movement, which saw the mass killings of landlords
In political science, the terms class struggle, class conflict, and class war refer to the economic antagonism and political tension that can arise between social classes due to clashing interests, co
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…and rich peasant classes nationwide. By the end of the 1970s, when the Cultural Revolution had ended, only 10 to 15 percent of them remained alive." Class conflict Democide…
The Pyramid of Capitalist System, a well-known cartoon satirizing capitalist society.
Truck drivers fight the police in the course of the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.
Heads of aristocrats on pikes at the storming of the Bastille
Farmer confronting landlord during China's Land Reform Movement