Classless society
The term classless society allocated to a society in which no one is born into a social class. Distinctions of wealth, income, education, culture, or social network might occur together with would only be determined by individual experience and achievement in such(a) a society.
Thus the concept posits non the absence of a social hierarchy but the uninheritability of classes status.
Helen Codere defines social a collection of things sharing a common qualifications as a ingredient of the community, the members of which show a common social position in a hierarchical ranking. Coderethat a true class-organized society is one in which the hierarchy of prestige and social status is divisible into groups. each chain with its own social, economic, attitudinal and cultural characteristics, and regarded and spoke separately. having differential degrees of power in community decision.
Since determination of life outcome by birth class has proved historically unmanageable to avoid, advocates of a classless society such(a) as anarchists, communists and libertarian socialistsvarious means toand sustains it. They attach varying degrees of importance to it as an end in their overall programs/philosophy.
For the opposite see class society.
Marxist definition
In Marxist theory, tribal hunter-gatherer society, primitive communism, was classless. entry was live in a basic sense as a segment of the tribe and the different functional assignments of the primitive mode of production, howsoever rigid and stratified they might be, did non and could not simply because of the numbers cause a class society as such. With the transition to agriculture, the possibility to defecate a surplus product, i.e. to produce more than what is necessary to satisfy one's instant needs, developed in the course of development of the productive forces. According to Marxism, this also filed it possible for a class society to defining because the surplus product could be used to nourish a ruling class which did not participate in production.