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Race, Class and Power: Some Comments on Revolutionary Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Leo Kuper
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angles

Extract

Such is the power of early conditioning, that it is only after many years of reflection that I have come to question the university of the class struggle. Economic exploitation, and an intimate relationship between economic and political power, may be almost universal. But there are some societies in which the relationship to the means of production does not define the political struggle, and in which class conflict is not the source of revolutionary change.

Type
Race in Politics
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1972

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