Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels defined, in their work, the Communist Manifesto, the term class conflict as "athe idea that the social order is divided into classes based on conflicting economic interests." They cited such historical examples as "freeman and slave, patrician and phleban (aristocrat and commoner, in the ancient world), lord and serf, guild-master (master craftsman) and journeyman (who worked for a guild-master), in a word, oppressor and oppressed."
According to the Manifesto, the State's role in the class conflict is that of the "bourgeoisie," the capitalists. It is describe
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