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Classes in Contemporary Capitalism (Paperback, New edition)
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Classes in Contemporary Capitalism (Paperback, New edition)
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Nicos Poulantzas's third major work is a pioneering survey of some
of the most fundamental, yet least studied, aspects of the class
structure of advanced capitalist societies today. The book starts
with a general theoretical essay that for the first time seriously
explores the distinction between the agents and positions of
capitalist relations of production, and seeks to avoid the typical
errors of either functionalism or historicism. It also provides a
polemical reconsideration of the problem of the nation state as a
political unit today, and its relationship to the
internationalization of capital.
Finally, and most originally, Poulantzas develops a long and
powerful analysis of the much-abused concept of the
petty-bourgeoisie. In this, he scrupulously distinguishes between
the traditional categories of petty-bourgeoisie--shopkeepers,
artisans, small peasants--and the new categories of clerical
workers, supervisors, and salaried personnel in modern industry and
commerce. At the same time he demonstrates the reasons why a
unitary conceptualization of their class position is possible. The
difficult question of the definition of productive and unproductive
labor within Marx's own account of the capitalist mode of
production is subjected to a novel and radical reinterpretation.
The political oscillations peculiar to each form of
petty-bourgeoisie and especially their characteristic reactions to
the industrial proletariat, are cogently assessed.
Poulantzas ends his work with a reminder that the actions and
options of the petty-bourgeoisie are critical to any successful
struggle by the working class, which must secure the alliance of
important sections of the petty-bourgeoisie if the fateful
experience of Chile is not to recur elsewhere tomorrow. Combining
empirical and theoretical materials throughout, Classes in
Contemporary Capitalism represents a notable achievement in the
development of Marxist social science and political thought.
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