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Can the Working Class Change the World?

Can the Working Class Change the World?

Yates, Michael D.

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General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1583677119
ISBN13: 9781583677117
Publisher: Monthly Review Pr
Published: Oct 2 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

An analysis of how the working class can mobilize as a force for change in the present day

One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of free commerce - where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as equals - lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties - sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change.

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