Why We Still Talk About the Working Class
Socialists focus on the working class because of our diagnosis of what’s wrong with society and our prognosis of how to fix it.
26 Articles by: Vivek Chibber
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Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.
Why the Working Class?
Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that’s why they are at the center of socialist politics.
Remembering Ellen Meiksins Wood
Ellen Meiksins Wood showed so many of us what it means to be a committed intellectual.
Development From Below
Capitalists are interested in profit, not development. Only workers can empower the Global South.
Subaltern Mythologies
Postcolonial theorists have to stop insisting we choose between the universal and the particular.
How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril.