Chapter One reviews in a diachronical manner the development of the class theories, with an emphasis on the class theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
This focus on labor gave rise to the perspective created by Marx and his longtime collaborator Friedrich Engels – a perspective known as historical materialism.
But Marx had never really gone away, whereas Friedrich Engels the man who worked hand in glove with him for most of his life and made a huge contribution to " Das Kapital" - is almost forgotten.