MCAT Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior: Passage 4 — Flashcards

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Class struggle is the key component of Marxist theory. The dominant classes in exploitive societies take possession of surplus labor. Therefore, the subordinate class is critical to production. To maintain surplus and prevent attrition, new workers in such societies often come from generational replacement. This is why women's capacity to have children plays an important role in class society, but also creates a different type of female oppression than occurs in the dominant class. Oppression of women in the dominant classes originates from their role in the maintenance and inheritance of property. In the subordinate classes, the female oppression originates from the women's involvement in the processes that replenish workers, as well as their own work in production.