Re: [Marxism] looking for general guidance: class analysis of today'ssociety; practice-theory

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just a couple quick observations, not fully developed.

My sense of the difference between weberian & marxian approaches to
class is that for the former "classes" are boxes into which one puts
different colored marbles, while for the latter class is a relationship,
not a collection of persons. The weberian, therefore, can arrive at
class analysis by describing the features or activities of those who
make up the class, while the marxist must focus on the structure (or
more accurately, dynamic, since we are dealing with process) of the
entire social order which constitutes the classes which constitute it.

The idea that workers (proletariat) must be manual workers is simply
bizarre. It reflects an extreme form of methodological individualism.

Carrol


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