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    It is not the case that Pure objective alienation does not generate social conflict.

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    • 1.Structural contradictions between classes can generate material conflict independently of subjective awareness, as Marx argues in Capital vol. 1.
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    • 2.Competition over scarce resources, wage suppression, and exploitation produce strikes and unrest even when workers lack class consciousness.
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    • 3.Therefore, objective alienation—the worker's separation from the product, process, and species-being—can cause social conflict without subjective hostility.
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    • 1.Bourdieu's concept of misrecognition shows agents can reproduce conflict-generating structures while misidentifying their own interests and grievances.
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    • 2.Social conflict can be latent or structural—manifest in institutional breakdown, crime, or withdrawal—without requiring felt rebelliousness as Dahrendorf's conflict theory demonstrates.
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    • 1.Social conflict requires agents who feel or experience some form of hostility or rebelliousness towards existing social arrangements.
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    • 2.In a situation of pure objective alienation, individuals do not feel hostility or rebelliousness towards existing social arrangements.
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