Class Consciousness or Class Composition?
Class is perhaps the most central concept in the Marxist tradition. But it is also one of the most ambiguous. Part of the difficulty stems from Marx's own creative use of the concept to refer to both economic categories as well as political subjects. The tension between these two definitions of clas...
| Publicado en: | Science & Society Vol. 77; no. 1; pp. 72 - 98 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan2013
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