Overview
- Provides an original reinterpretation of class struggle in Marxist-Leninist thought that challenges conventional populist thinking
- Makes available a new work by a leading Italian Marxist-Leninist in the field for the first time in English
- One of the few books to seriously incorporate issues of gender, race, and post-colonial thought within the framework of class struggle
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Losurdo has comprehensively demonstrated that we can, and indeed should, question the context of the appearance or reappearance of many of the bourgeoisie’s crypto-philosophical works. His book shows that class discourse, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, is not dead yet! … .” (Thomas Klikauer, Labor History, Vol. 60 (3), 2019)
“In a learned, readable, historically rich, textually focused analysis, Losurdo, in a revisionary mode, aims to liberate Marx's and Engel's concept of class struggle from its entrenchment in a narrow, strictly economic frame. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (G.D. Miller, Choice, Vol. 54 (11), July, 2017)
“Thanks to a documentation that is very large and amazingly informative, Losurdo convincingly shows how his scheme of class struggle is useful to explain modern history up to the present times. Far from being just a history of the concept of class struggle and of the meanings it has assumed over time, Losurdo’s book is a great essay of philosophy of history.” (Gianni Vattimo, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy)
“In his new book Losurdo demonstrates brilliantly with a great clarity and rigor a very important thesis today: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Gramsci and Mao have developed a non-binary conception of class struggle. The integral concept of class struggle goes beyond the classical opposition between Work and Capital. It includes the secular feminist fight for emancipation from male domination and the modern battles for national liberation.” (André Tosel, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Nice, France)
“Losurdo shows convincingly that the often maligned concept of class struggle can be used in a productive way when put in a broader context. When class struggle is thus defined as a comprehensive theory of social conflict the term becomes indeed a highly useful instrument in analyzing the various aspects of the present global crisis and their interconnections.” (Jürgen Pelzer, Professor, Occidental College, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Class Struggle
Book Subtitle: A Political and Philosophical History
Authors: Domenico Losurdo
Translated by: Gregory Elliot
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-70660-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70662-4Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-70660-0Published: 06 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 363
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Terrorism and Political Violence, Democracy, International Political Economy