Marxist views on social policy

Karl Marx suggested that there is an inequality between capitalists and the working class.
Marxists focus on the inequalities that exist in society between the bourgeoisieor capitalists (owners of factories and businesses) and the proletariat or working class (everyone else).
The relationship between these two groups is not equal as the working class are forced to sell their labour to the capitalists in return for money. The capitalists make a profit as they pay the workers less than the value of what they produce. For some Marxists social policies such as free education, health care, and welfare state are the result of class struggle. For other Marxists social policies are just 'smokescreens' to make life appear better.