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Class Struggle

Part of the Marx, Engels, and Marxisms Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-70660-0

ISBN: 978-1-137-52387-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 7, 2016

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: The Return of Class Struggle?

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 1 –6

[Nowadays, on the wave of the economic crisis of 2008 and of increasing polarisation between rich and poor, there is much talk of ‘the return to class struggle’. Had it actually disappeared? After WWII, renowned thinkers have inferred the demise of class struggle from the advent of the Welfare...
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Chapter 2The Different Forms of Class Struggle

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 7 –51

[The Communist Party Manifesto invites us to read history as the history of ‘class struggles’ (in the plural). The struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is only one of the various forms that class struggle may take. A second form has as its protagonists the peoples who rebelled...
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Chapter 3A Protracted, Positive-Sum Struggle

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 53 –71

[The overthrow of the Old regime and the advent of bourgeois society is not the end of class struggle. On the other hand, contrary to Nietzsche’s claims, class struggle not only is not eternal but neither it is a zero-sum game. Even if promoted in the first place by the classes and peoples who...
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Chapter 4Class Struggles and Struggles for Recognition

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 73 –99

[Class struggle in its various forms does not exclusively aim at economic goals. The three forms of class struggle are at the same time three forms of struggle for recognition (in the Hegelian sense). The lower classes and colonial peoples, who for so long were dehumanized and treated as...
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Chapter 5Overcoming Binary Logic: A Difficult, Unfinished Process

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 101 –119

[While condemning property as ‘theft’, and therefore, supporting the lower class struggle, on the other hand Proudhon claimed that the feminist movement was synonymous with ‘pornocracy’. The followers of Fourier, a socialist who supported both the movement for women’s emancipation and the...
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Chapter 6The Multiplicity of Struggles for Recognition and the Conflict of Liberties

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 121 –137

[The various forms of class struggle can be in conflict one with the other. During the American Civil War, President Lincoln, determined at any cost to win the struggle destined to emancipate black slaves, did not hesitate to impose a military dictatorship in the South of the USA and harshly put...
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Chapter 7The South-East Passage

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 139 –173

[Contrary to Marx’s predictions, the form of class struggle that prevailed in the twentieth century was the national one. It was the century that saw the anti-colonial revolution develop on a world-wide scale. Taking up again and radicalizing the colonial tradition, Hitler aimed at building the...
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Chapter 8Lenin in 1919: ‘The Class Struggle is Continuing—It has Merely Changed its Forms’

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 175 –198

[But what happened to ‘class struggle’ in the country where the Bolsheviks who followed the Communist Party Manifesto reached power? In October 1919 Lenin claimed: ‘The class struggle continues; it has only changed shape’. And so we find a dramatic turn of events in the history of Marx and...
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Chapter 9After the Revolution: The Ambiguities of Class Struggle

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 199 –226

[But what social class held power in Soviet Russia? This question, already apparent with the victory of the October Revolution, became more insistent and painful after the introduction of the NEP and the emergence of a class of capitalists who lived in luxury while the great majority of the...
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Chapter 10After the Revolution: Discovering the Limits of Class Struggle

Losurdo, Domenico

Pages: 227 –245

[As often occurs when there are great revolutions, the enthusiasm for the overthrow of the Old regime ended up attributing to the revolutionary action a prodigious capacity of producing a political and social reality that was completely new and without any conflict. The history of socialism and...

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