Antagonism

This is from agon "assembly, mass of people brought together," especially to watch the games, hence, "a contest," then, generally, "any struggle or trial;" from the verb agein "put in motion, move" (here specifically as "assemble, bring together"), from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move."--- Etymonline.com[I]n Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment [...] the structure of antagonism [is uncovered] layer by layer. Lead author Chelsea Sleep, along with University of Georgia colleagues such as researcher Josh Miller, found that seven factors emerged as major players: aggression, callousness, domineering behavior, grandiosity, manipulation, risk-tasking, and suspiciousness.W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., and Carolyn Crist. Posted Nov 02, 2020Class antagonismIt is a key hypothesis of Marxian historical theory that the working class will eventually emancipate itself in a process of class struggle against capitalists by establishing a socialist system without exploitation. Class struggle is regarded as resulting from a fundamental conflict of class interests which cannot be resolved within capitalist relations of production. We call a state of class relations characterised by such antagonistic interests 'class antagonism'.Class Antagonism, Exploitation and the Labour Theory by H Holländer · ‎1982 · ‎Cited by 21class antagonism has to be distinguished from class struggle, which usually denotes a non- peaceful course of class actions in the pursuit of class interests. While it is meaningful to assume that class struggle presupposes conflicting interests, the reverse is, in general, not true. For instance, antagonism does not lead to struggle if some peaceful strategy yields the highest pay-off of all feasible strategies in terms of the interests assumed.References
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