Rethinking Marx’s Concept of Class Does the emergence of...

It is doubtless that Marx’s concept of Class was very remarkable particularly at the 19th century era, when the implication of The Age of Reason (Aufklarung) in Europe had contributed significant supports of changes in the development of sciences and the historical of thought at that time. Nevertheless, Marx progressive thought that was manifested in the concept of class has been questioned for decades since its capacity is considered ‘limited’ and somehow ‘irrelevant’ if it is applied to the contemporary social phenomena in the late 20th and the beginning of 21st century. Therefore, class as the unit of analysis is viewed to be no longer applicable and comprehensive to answer the complex and ‘sophisticated’ problems prevailing on recent†¦show more content†¦Identity in postmodernist tradition is seen as a construct shaped in a discursive context. The concept of identity politics is under the light of anti-essentialism that later widely acknowledged among the â€Å"subalterns†. The postcolonial studies used this term to â€Å"those social groups—migrants, shantytown dwellers, displaced tribes, refuges, untouchable castes, the homeless—that either do not posses, or are prevented from possessing class consciousness†¦Ã¢â‚¬ (Glossary of Postcolonial Reader: 509). Similar explanation proposed by Young that subaltern is a name for subordinate individuals and groups who do not possess a general ‘class consciousness’. Moreover, Chatterjee highlights that they are both subordinate by ‘accepting’ the immediate reality of power relations, which dominate and exploit them; but on the contrary has the will to assert their autonomy (Slemon, Postcolonial Reader: An Anthology: 110) Let’s again draw our attention to the matter of Identity Politics versus Class Politics. However, I am not completely agreed nor disagree with Gitlin and Tomasky’s statement inasmuch as it sound to ‘dogmatise’ the modern politics perspective with its universalism and radical humanism of collective consciousness of class. It is true that there is â€Å"a cul-de-sac of ethnic particularism, race consciousness, sexual politics, and radical feminism† nowadays, but we ought to be very careful notShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesHistory and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., History and September 11th John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited David M. Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape Gerda Lerner, Fireweed:Read MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pagesdone some sterling service in bringing together the very diverse strands of work that today qualify as constituting the subject of organisational theory. Whilst their writing is accessible and engaging, their approach is scholarly and serious. It is so easy for students (and indeed others who should know better) to trivialize this very problematic and challenging subject. This is not the case with the present book. This is a book that deserves to achieve a wide readership. Professor Stephen Ackroyd