“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win” (Marx). While living in London as an adult, Karl Marx realized that he lived in a very rich country, but only a small portion of the population benefited from the country's riches, and most suffered from poverty. The people who enjoyed the country's riches he called capitalists, these people sought profit from the factories and businesses they owned. Then there were the people he considered proletarian, these people sold their labor in exchange for a wage to the capitalist. Marx began to think about the idea of ​​social conflict; Investopedia defines conflict theory as “a state of perpetual conflict due to competition for limited resources. Conflict theory argues that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. According to conflict theory, those who hold wealth and power try to maintain it by any means possible, especially by suppressing the poor and powerless. Conflict theory also attributes most of the fundamental developments in human history, such as democracy and civil rights, to capitalist attempts to control the masses rather than to the desire for social order.” Social conflict can manifest itself in many forms such as arguments, rivalries or wars. In those days if you weren't born into a certain bloodline, the capitalist one, you couldn't own anything. People born into poverty couldn't get out of it, they had to work for the rich in order to provide for their families and survive day in and day out, which was often a struggle for them. People born into poverty remained in poverty for the rest of their lives. Marx divided everything they wanted, but the teachers and public service workers got the agreement for the total increase of their salaries and they received pay for the days they work surprisingly, they got a reform and they had a tax relief that was changed from February 1, 2005 to March 1, 2005 (7 News Belize, February 11, 2005). The proletarians have proven that Marx's idea that conflict creates change is true, but for change to be successful society must unite and refuse to give up until change is achieved. Works Cited Marx, K. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch04.htm(nd). Retrieved from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conject-theory.asp(nd). Retrieved from http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=2700&frmsrch=1(nd). Retrieved from http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=6613&frmsrch=1