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.'

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, Ph.D., Ohio State University, is a Professor at York University. He has published the monograph A Contribution to the Critique of Contemporary Capitalism (Nova Publishers, 2014), and articles in many journals, including Capital and Class and Science and Society.

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