"Class Struggle: A Critical Review in the Field of Political Psychology"

Class struggle is typically defined as conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests. Class struggle, whether as a political subject, social issue or mental stressor, is a dilemma that, after the economic crisis in the last years, has again become people's preoccupation in many areas. Many criticizers with radical viewpoints believe that social difficulties like addiction, illiteracy, educational failure, whoredom, robbery, smuggling, bribery, fraud and embezzlement may have a direct relationship with poverty, as one feature of class struggle. Moreover, at an individual level, there is a direct relationship between poverty and physical and/or mental health. So, in the last decades, the echo of class struggle in the field of behavioral sciences has been remarkable, especially by considering the overlap between philosophy, which tries to elucidate the connection between different elements of life, and psychology, which tries to clarify the cognitive and behavioral aspects of human beings, and sociology, which tries to describe the complexities of social arrangement. The evolutionary outlook, too, is another shared point amid the said evaluations. In the present article, the class struggle has been reviewed concisely to assess its various facets, based on different theoretic formulations, observable facts and contemporary events.