Raju J Das

Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World

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Produktbeschreibung

A persuasive and thorough response to those fashionable social theorists who challenge both the explanatory and emancipatory power of 'class.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781608469291
• ISBN-10: 1608469298
• Artikelnr.: 48894752

Autorenporträt

Raju J Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His research interests include Marxist political economy and social theory. His recent books are Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World, and Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State.

Inhaltsangabe

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