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Classing Identity, Identifying Class: Locating Materialist / Deconstructionist Convergence

University of British Columbia, briangreen{at}shaw.ca

This paper argues that Marxian class analysis and critical poststructuralism are not merely compatible theoretical approaches, but different trajectories of the same general method; where post-structuralistism takes apart cultural products to illustrate their contradictions, biases and silences, class analysis seeks to deconstruct economic arrangements in order to identify their social construction, concrete power implications and potential rupture. The theoretical questions are explored in the context of particular historical and political challenges: the impact of Soviet orthodoxy, the challenge of new social movements, and the ongoing crisis of the Left despite the re-emergence of a diverse and vibrant anti-capitalist movement.

Key Words: Marxism • poststructuralism • class analysis • crisis of Keynesianism • social movements.

Critical Sociology, Vol. 32, No. 4, 603-616 (2006)
DOI: 10.1163/156916306779155117


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