On Social Classes

1973/03/31 by Nicos Poulantzas
Social Sciences · #Social Policy and Reform Studies

paper · doi:10.64590/zgt

Abstract

What are social classes in Marxist theory? They are groups of social agents, of men defined principally but not exclusively by their place in the production process, i.e. by their place in the economic sphere. The economic place of the social agents has a principal role in determining . . .

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