Proletariat into a Class: The Process of Class Formation from Karl Kautsky's The Class Struggle to Recent Controversies

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Przeworski
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Class Formation

Politics in Kenya: The Development of Peasant Society

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Leys
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Class Formation ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Peasant Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Client Relationships ◽  
Stratification System

The central question which this article attempts to raise is how we should understand the social structure that is emerging from the neo-colonial pattern of change in Africa, and what implications it has for politics. In its simplest form, the question is how far a stratification system is developing which is likely to make for class formation, class consciousness, and a politics of class struggle; or how far stratification can be contained within a predominantly peasant society, expressed politically in patron-client relationships.

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