# Was Marx right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 27, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-marx-right/565529 "2010-12-27T17:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-marx-right/565529/51 "2010-12-28T22:45:49Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Wrong. Slaves rather obviously kept their social/econoimc class and lack of any political power and women did not have representation either. Calling it “class warfare” is simply ignorant. It was a class struggle between the eupatrids who monopolized political power before democracy was introduced and the unprivileged citizens who had it after. And it did make a difference. If it did not, why did you even mention it on your list? And that same class struggle went on throughout the Greek world during that period, from polis to polis, sometimes the democrats winning, sometimes the oligarchs coming back and putting them down, sometimes the democrats finding that they had only replaced the oligarchs with a tyrant – and sometimes regretting that, sometimes not. One can hardly understand Classical Greek history at all without class struggle. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-marx-right/565529)._