A Protracted, Positive-Sum Struggle

Abstract

The overthrow of the Old regime and the advent of bourgeois society is not the end of class struggle. On the other hand, contrary to Nietzsche’s claims, class struggle not only is not eternal but neither it is a zero-sum game. Even if promoted in the first place by the classes and peoples who suffer exploitation and oppression, class struggle can reap benefits for the whole of humanity, achieving the overcoming of an order based on distrust and violence between individuals.