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Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World

By Raju J Das

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2017
ISBN
900429709X, 9789004297098
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2948271 bytes)
Series
Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 103
Edition
Lam
Pages
696\696
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Philosophy
Time added
2018-03-21 05:27:01
ClassCommunismCritical TheoryKarl MarxmarxismPolitical IdeologiesPolitical ScienceSocial SciencesSocialism

Description

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.

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