274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles.’ A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx’s expectations, and seems unlikely ever to do so. How could Marx have entertained the notion that the proletariat would emancipate... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Dialectic of Universal and Particular 3. Sources 4. Marx’s Proletariat Challenged 5. A Proletarian Ethic? 6. A Proletarian Ideology? 7. The Proletariat as an Economic Class 9. Conclusion
Biography
David W. Lovell
