Class Struggle is the driving force behind all of history. It is the struggle that has been taking place ever since the beginning force of all time and is inherent to our reality. Class Struggle is the basis of socialism, because the two classes that are important for establishing the ideology are the wealthy bourgeoisie and anyone else forced to work for them. However, we can consider many other classes and groups of people to exist in society. Ethnic, religious, political, and even social or cultural groups can be considered classes in society. Even monarchies or other political systems should be seen as having a class of supporters, because no person is a ruler just on their own. All of these systems exist in our minds and through organization by other humans, so no social construct can stop existing if we desire it to go away. There is a class of people somewhere in existence that benefits from anything that exists, even if the benefit is only perceived as feeling superior or forcing their religion on the masses.
Looking at history from this way, we cannot look at the current state of the world and see things as “Just happening because” as many people do. Humans are the masters of our destiny in the modern world, so when a forest is cut down or people are left homeless in the street, it is because a class of people somewhere decided for it to happen. The same can be said for environmental degradation or other economic decisions made in society that harm the masses. Until our social class is unchallenged in terms of power, authority, and ideology, there can be no resistance to the bourgeois regime that oppresses us, brainwashes us with propaganda, or even kills us if we try to change the system.
People continue to believe that we are all free wherever we are, but if we were truly in a free society it would not be so difficult to get basic necessities like food, shelter, work, or education. We also would not be living under rigged elections and fed processed foods with toxic chemicals and copious amounts of sugar. The world we live in is a hell for our people and a playground for the bourgeois landlords and parasites who exploit our labor and deprive us of basic necessities that we need to survive. What they do to us is cruel and deliberate violence. The world is able to feed and house its entire populations many times over but scarcity is deliberately created to control the world’s people. Many class enemies are even shameless enough to admit that scarcity is needed to increase their profits. People continue believing that their reality is all a series of coincidences, rather than a complicated web of consequences determined by struggles between social classes.
For the person who refuses the existence of class struggle and continues to choose idealism, can they ever truly be free mentally, politically, or economically? For the person who knows the truth, can they fight back against the ruling class on their own, with a society that is unwilling or unable to see what is truly going on? For your entire existence you have been bombarded with advertising and propaganda to get you to buy products, buy services, and to love the government, military, and police force that exists to keep you in a cage. You can choose to read the materials discouraged by your government and society to discover the truth, or you can continue on in life with the misguided belief that you are free, living in the open air prison you were born into.