Rise of Marxist Classes
Bureaucratic Classification and Class Formation in Early Socialist China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4180348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eddy U, U Eddy (University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975616000011 |
| OpenAlex | W2312427381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 50 |
How did "capitalists", "petty bourgeoisie", and other class categories based on Marxist critiques of capitalism become highly visible in local society while communist regimes abolished capitalist institutions? Conventional approaches to class lack the necessary tools for unraveling such "Marxist classes", let alone their impact on class formation in the common sociological sense. I use Weber, Foucault, and others (together with a study of the emergence of a "petty bourgeoisie" in a Chinese school system) to highlight the bureaucratic struggle of the state to classify everyone with a Marxist schema of classes. Spotlighted are "textual corroboration" and "workplace ascription" of class status, two everyday processes carried out by state representatives that normalized the class categories as well as muddied their boundaries. I contend that official conversion of jobholders into different kinds of predefined class subjects rendered any "class-in-itself" or "class-for-itself" virtually impossible. The conclusion suggests how further research on bureaucratic classification and Marxist classes can advance understanding of state-society relations under communism, especially in comparative terms
Bourgeoisie · Bureaucracy · Capitalism · Class (philosophy) · Class conflict · Class consciousness · Class formation · Communism · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Petite bourgeoisie · Political science · Politics · Social class · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Working class · Chinese history and philosophy · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |