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Marxist Theory of Class for a Skeptical World is a critique of some of the influential radical theories of class, and presents an alternative approach to it. This book critically discusses Analytical Marxist and Post-structuralist Marxist theories of class, and offers an alternative approach that is rooted in the ideas of Marx and Engels as well as Lenin and Trotsky. It presents a materialist-dialectical foundation for class theory, and conceptualizes class at the trans-historical level and at the level of capitalism. It shows that capitalism is an objectively-existing articulation of exchange, property and value relations, between capital and labour, at multiple geographical scales, and that the state is an arm of class relation. It draws out implications of class relations for consciousness and political power of the proletariat.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables ... viii Acknowledgements ... ix 1 Introduction ... 1 2 Analytical Marxist Theory of Class ... 22 1 Main Concepts in Analytical Marxist Theory of Class ... 24 2 Connecting Core Class-Concepts, and Levels of Class-Analysis ... 51 3 Class Analysis, Struggle for Socialism, and Socialist Strategies ... 54 4 Conceptual Advantages of Wright’s Theory of Class ... 60 5 Wright’s Class Theory in Relation to His Marxist Social Theory ... 65 6 Conclusion ... 70 3 Anti-essentialist (Post-structuralist) Marxist Theory of Class ... 74 1 Post-structuralist Marxist Notion of Class Relation ... 76 2 Class Agency/Struggle and Geography of Capitalism ... 83 3 Class Theory as a Part of Marxist Social Theory in Anti-essentialist Marxism: The Principle of Non-dominance ... 89 4 The Politics of Anti-essentialist Marxism or Class Politics of Distribution ... 98 5 Semiotic/Linguistic/Emotional Resistance and Intervention ... 106 6 Conclusion ... 109 4 A Critique of Theories of Class in Analytical and Anti-essentialist Marxisms ... 111 1 Class and Property ... 112 2 Class, Surplus, and Exploitation ... 118 3 The Primacy of Class and of Capitalist Class Relations ... 125 4 Problematic Conception of Class-Agency and Anti-capitalism ... 134 5 A Reformist View of Post-capitalist Politics ... 145 6 Class Character of Revisions to the Marxist Theory of Class: Theories and Interests ... 159 7 Conclusion ... 164 5 Philosophical Foundations of Class Theory ... 175 1 Marxist Philosophy: A Brief Statement of Basic Principles ... 175 2 Philosophy and Class Theory ... 199 3 Conclusion ... 208 6 Class Theory at a Trans-historical Scale ... 212 1 Class in All Class Societies: Class, Property, and Exploitation ... 213 2 Historically Specific Form of Class: Class in Pre-capitalist Society ... 228 3 Objective Conditions, Class Struggle, Class Consciousenss and Transition in Class Form of Society ... 233 4 Class and the State: Political Oppression as a Part of Class Relation ... 239 5 Conclusion ... 243 7 Marxist Theory of Capitalism as Class: A Dialectics of Exchange, Property and Value Relations ... 249 1 Capitalist Class Relation as Exchange/Money Relation ... 252 2 Capitalist Class Relation as Property Relation ... 258 3 Capitalist Class Relation as a Relation of Value ... 262 4 Money Relation, Property Relation, and Value Relation all Internally Connected ... 273 5 Concrete Map of Class Relations in Capitalist Social Formation ... 288 6 Objective Effects of Class Relations on the Working Class: Suffering and Immiserization ... 306 7 Conclusion ... 313 8 Subsumptions of Labour by Capital: Theory of Capitalist Class Relation from an International Perspective ... 340 1 How is Capitalism Conceptualized? ... 342 2 Formal and Real Subsumptions of Labour as Forms of Capitalist Class Relation ... 345 3 Transition from Formal Subsumption, and the Mediation of Class Struggle ... 353 4 Imperialism, Subsumption of Labour under Capital, and Class ... 359 5 Misconceptions about Subsumption of Labour and Dominant Contradiction in Modern Society ... 367 6 Summary, and Theoretical and Political Implications ... 376 9 The Capitalist State as Constitutive of Capitalist Class Relation: Class Exploitation and Political Oppression ... 391 1 The Capitalist State and the Capitalist Class Relation ... 392 2 Democratic State Form and the Capitalist Class Relation ... 399 3 Capitalist Class Relations and Barrier to Working Class Access to State Power ... 402 4 Conclusion ... 409 10 Dialectics of Class Consciousness ... 415 1 Consciousness of the Bourgeoisie ... 417 2 Consciousness of the Working Class and Its Multiple Forms ... 428 3 Capitalist Class Relation and Working Class Consciousness ... 438 4 Class Consciousness, Objectivism and Workers’ Struggle: Somegeneral Considerations ... 453 5 ‘Marxist Elitism’ and Class Consciousness ... 462 6 Conclusion ... 471 11 Trade Unionist Struggle and the Proletariat ... 483 1 Struggle from Above and Struggle from Below ... 484 2 ‘Primitive’ Revolts of the Working Class ... 487 3 Trade Union Struggle ... 489 4 What Makes (Spontaneous or Trade Unionist) Struggle Necessaryand Possible? ... 493 12 Class Struggle and the Proletariat ... 509 1 A Marxist Critique of Spontaneous Trade Unionist Struggle ... 510 2 Trade Union Struggle is a (Subordinate) Part of Class Struggle ... 514 3 Revolution as the Ultimate Form of Class Struggle ... 525 4 Revolutionary Role of the Proletariat ... 535 5 Political Hegemony of the Proletariat ... 545 6 Political Vehicles for Class Struggle ... 550 7 Conclusion ... 556 13 Conclusions, and Further Reflections on the Political Implications of Class Theory ... 566 1 Marxist Philosophy and Class Theory at a Trans-historical Level ... 579 2 The Totality of the Capitalist Class Relation ... 586 3 The Capitalist Class Relation, Internationally Speaking ... 605 4 The State and the (Capitalist) Class Relation ... 613 5 (Working) Class Consciousness and (Working) Class Power ... 616 Works Cited ... 635 Index ... 662


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004297098
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 696
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 900429709X
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 686
  • Weight: 1191 gr


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