Marxist class theory for a skeptical world / by Raju J. Das.
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 t...
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
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Table of Contents:
- Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Analytical Marxist Theory of Class; 1 Main Concepts in Analytical Marxist Theory of Class; 2 Connecting Core Class-Concepts, and Levels of Class-Analysis; 3 Class Analysis, Struggle for Socialism, and Socialist trategies; 4 Conceptual Advantages of Wright's Theory of Class; 5 Wright's Class Theory in Relation to His Marxist Social Theory; 6 Conclusion; 3 Anti-essentialist (Post-structuralist) Marxist Theory of Class.
- 1 Post-structuralist Marxist Notion of Class Relation2 Class Agency/Struggle and Geography of Capitalism; 3 Class Theory as a Part of Marxist Social Theory in Anti-essentialist Marxism: The Principle of Non-dominance; 4 The Politics of Anti-essentialist Marxism or Class Politics of Distribution; 5 Semiotic/Linguistic/Emotional Resistance and Intervention; 6 Conclusion; 4 A Critique of Theories of Class in Analytical and Anti-essentialist Marxisms; 1 Class and Property; 2 Class, Surplus, and Exploitation; 3 The Primacy of Class and of Capitalist Class Relations.
- 4 Problematic Conception of Class-Agency and Anti-capitalism5 A Reformist View of Post-capitalist Politics; 6 Class Character of Revisions to the Marxist Theory of Class: Theories and Interests; 7 Conclusion; 5 Philosophical Foundations of Class Theory; 1 Marxist Philosophy: A Brief Statement of Basic Principles; 2 Philosophy and Class Theory; 3 Conclusion; 6 Class Theory at a Trans-historical Scale; 1 Class in All Class Societies: Class, Property, and Exploitation; 2 Historically Specific Form of Class: Class in Pre-capitalist Society.
- 3 Objective Conditions, Class Struggle, Class Consciousenss and Transition in Class Form of Society4 Class and the State: Political Oppression as a Part of Class Relation; 5 Conclusion; 7 Marxist Theory of Capitalism as Class: A Dialectics of Exchange, Property and Value Relations; 1 Capitalist Class Relation as Exchange/Money Relation; 2 Capitalist Class Relation as Property Relation; 3 Capitalist Class Relation as a Relation of Value; 4 Money Relation, Property Relation, and Value Relation all Internally Connected; 5 Concrete Map of Class Relations in Capitalist Social Formation.
- 6 Objective Effects of Class Relations on the Working Class: Suffering and Immiserization7 Conclusion; 8 Subsumptions of Labour by Capital: Theory of Capitalist Class Relation from an International Perspective; 1 How is Capitalism Conceptualized?; 2 Formal and Real Subsumptions of Labour as Forms of Capitalist Class Relation; 3 Transition from Formal Subsumption, and the Mediation of Class Struggle; 4 Imperialism, Subsumption of Labour under Capital, and Class; 5 Misconceptions about Subsumption of Labour and Dominant Contradiction in Modern Society.