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Force, Theory of

An idealist theory claiming that social inequality is a result of the use of force by some people against others. It gained the greatest currency among bourgeois ideologists. Dühring associated the appearance of classes with the employment of force by one part of society against another (internal force). Gumplowicz, an Austrian sociologist (1838-1909), Kautsky, and others regarded the enslavement of a weaker tribe by a stronger one (external force) as the decisive cause of the appearance of classes and the state.

Marxism, without denying the role of force, at the same time asserts that force is rooted in economic conditions. Theory of Force is utilised by the ideologists of the imperialist bourgeoisie to defend neocolonialism, justify the policy "from strength", and the cold war.