Marxist class theory for a skeptical world / / by Raju J. Das.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences, 103
• VerfasserIn: Das, Raju J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; 103.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (696 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Raju J. Das -- Introduction / Raju J. Das -- Analytical Marxist Theory of Class / Raju J. Das -- Anti-essentialist (Post-structuralist) Marxist Theory of Class / Raju J. Das -- A Critique of Theories of Class in Analytical and Anti-essentialist Marxisms / Raju J. Das -- Philosophical Foundations of Class Theory / Raju J. Das -- Class Theory at a Trans-historical Scale / Raju J. Das -- Marxist Theory of Capitalism as Class: A Dialectics of Exchange, Property and Value Relations / Raju J. Das -- Subsumptions of Labour by Capital: Theory of Capitalist Class Relation from an International Perspective / Raju J. Das -- The Capitalist State as Constitutive of Capitalist Class Relation: Class Exploitation and Political Oppression / Raju J. Das -- Dialectics of Class Consciousness / Raju J. Das -- Trade Unionist Struggle and the Proletariat / Raju J. Das -- Class Struggle and the Proletariat / Raju J. Das -- Conclusions, and Further Reflections on the Political Implications of Class Theory / Raju J. Das -- Works Cited / Raju J. Das -- Index / Raju J. Das.