Social Class and Marxism

by Neville Kirk

In recent years historians and other social scientists have widely questioned the continued utility of social class - as historical relationship, as sociological category, as philosophical concept - and its enduring political significance. The fall of Stalinism in eastern Europe and social and political changes in the West have triggered off even more widespread and vociferous dismissals of Marxism. The purposes of this collection of essays by six distinguished scholars are twofold: to offer a multi-disciplinary-based critique of the new revisionism and to demonstrate the continued...