Who These Days is Not a Subaltern? The Populist Drift of Global Labor History

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10487367
AutoresTom Bra (0000-0002-8565-2416, Richmond upon Thames College, autor de correspondencia), Tom Brass (Richmond-upon-Thames Surrey, TW10 7XT, UK)
Año2016
Volumen81
Número1
Páginas10-34
Fecha de publicación2016-12-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0036-8237 • E-ISSN: 1943-2801
EditorialGuilford Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1521/siso.2017.81.1.10
OpenAlexW2565116022
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas12

The rejection by current global labor history of Marxist political economy, and replacing of its class analysis with a more inclusive concept of “proletarian multiverse,” both have serious political and theoretical implications. In keeping with similarly broad categories (“subaltern,” “multitude”) advocated by the “new” populist postmodernism, among the key components regarded by global labor history as agents of a progressive anti-capitalist mobilization are undifferentiated peasants and the lumpenpro-letariat. However, since the latter categories are generally hostile not to capitalism but to socialism, their agency cannot be seen as progressive, let alone revolutionary

Agency (philosophy · Capitalism · Communism · Marxist philosophy · Multitude · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Proletarianization · Proletariat · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Subaltern · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci