“The proletarians have nothing to lose except their chains. They have a world to gain” (Marx). While living in London as an adult, Karl Marx realized that he lived in a very wealthy country, but that only a small part of the population benefited from the country's riches and that the majority suffered from poverty. The people who profited from the wealth of the country he called capitalists sought to profit from the factories and businesses they owned. Then there were the people he considered proletarian, those people who sold their labor for wages to the capitalist. Marx began to think about the idea of ​​social conflict; Investopedia defines conflict theory as “a state of perpetual conflict due to competition for limited resources. Conflict theory holds that social order is maintained through domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. According to conflict theory, those who possess wealth and power attempt to hold on to it by any means possible, primarily by suppressing the poor and powerless. Conflict theory also attributes most fundamental developments in human history, such as democracy and civil rights, to capitalist attempts to control the masses rather than to a desire for social order. » Social conflicts can take many forms, such as quarrels, rivalries or wars. In those days, if you weren't born into a certain lineage, a capitalist lineage, you couldn't own anything. People born into poverty couldn't get by, they had to work for the rich to support their families and survive day to day, which was often a struggle for them. People born into poverty remained there for the rest of their lives. Marx split middle of paper... whatever they wanted, but teachers and civil servants got the deal for a full increase in their salaries and they were paid for the days they train. Strikingly, they achieved reform and tax reduction which was amended from February 1, 2005 to March 1, 2005 (7 News Belize, February 11, 2005). Proletarians have proven that Marx's idea that conflict creates change is true, but that for change to succeed, society must come together and refuse to give up until change is achieved. Works Cited Marx, K. (nd). Retrieved from http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch04.htm(nd). Retrieved from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conflict-theory.asp(nd). Retrieved from http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=2700&frmsrch=1(nd). Retrieved from http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=6613&frmsrch=1