class war

“So far, Durkheim has turned out to be right about industrial society not splitting apart along class lines, but his idea that the industrial division of labor would result in a more solidaristic form of social life bears as little resemblance to the actual course of events as Marx’s vision of class war followed by a classless utopia.”

Simon & Schuster: Why Nothing Works

“Against Marx who foretold that the division of labor would result in a class war between workers and capitalists, turn-of-the-century sociologist Émile Durkheim and his followers argued that industrialization would lead to the “organic” unity of social life.”

Simon & Schuster: Why Nothing Works