1972/09/01 by Leo Kuper · 6 citations
Social Sciences · #Political Economy and Marxism #Class (philosophy) #Race (biology) #Power (physics) #Politics #Class conflict #Political economy #Ruling class #Political science #Reflection (computer programming) #Sociology #Development economics #Gender studies #Economic system #Economics #Epistemology #Law #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1017/s0010417500006782
published in Comparative Studies in Society and History 14(4), 400-421 (Cambridge University Press)
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Such is the power of early conditioning, that it is only after many years of reflection that I have come to question the university of the class struggle. Economic exploitation, and an intimate relationship between economic and political power, may be almost universal. But there are some societies in which the relationship to the means of production does not define the political struggle, and in which class conflict is not the source of revolutionary change.