Social and Sexual Revolution

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Why haven't workers in the advanced capitalist countries become class conscious? The ability of workers to grasp their interests and to act upon them is central to marxist theory. Yet crisis after crisis has come and gone and it is hard to see any great advance in class consciousness as a result. Social and Sexual Revolution is a collection of essays written over the last ten years. In these essays Bertell Oilman takes a fresh look at Marx's central concepts of class, class consciousness and communism; argues for the absorption of Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and discusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying it revolutionary purpose.
Table of Contents
1. Toward Class Consciousness Next Time: Marx and the Working Class
2. Marx's Use of 'Class'
3. Marx's Vision of Communism: A Reconstruction
4. Marxism and Political Science: Prolegomenon to a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Why haven't workers in the advanced capitalist countries become class conscious? The ability of workers to grasp their interests and to act upon them is central to marxist theory. Yet crisis after crisis has come and gone and it is hard to see any great advance in class consciousness as a result. Social and Sexual Revolution is a collection of essays written over the last ten years. In these essays Bertell Oilman takes a fresh look at Marx's central concepts of class, class consciousness and communism; argues for the absorption of Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and discusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying it revolutionary purpose.
Table of Contents
1. Toward Class Consciousness Next Time: Marx and the Working Class
2. Marx's Use of 'Class'
3. Marx's Vision of Communism: A Reconstruction
4. Marxism and Political Science: Prolegomenon to a Debate on Marx's Method
5. On Teaching Marxism
6. The Marxism of Wilhelm Reich
or the Social Function of Sexual Repression
7. Social and Sexual Revolution
Bertell Oilman is author of Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, and is co-editor of Studies in Socialist Pedagogy. He is also creator of Class Struggle, a marxist board game for home and school. Vissza