The Inevitably Cultural Politics of Class: A Response to Verity Burgmann

In this response I argue that class politics are always experienced culturally, and open to diverse expressions in specific historical moments. I attempt to show that class politics did not so much die in the 1960s as get rearticulated through linkages to conservative political positions. Finally, I...

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Published in:International labor and working class history 2005-04, Vol.67 (67), p.50-53
Main Author: Lowndes, Joseph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Civil rights
Class Politics
Conservatism
Cultural identity
Decades
Identity Politics
International politics
Liberalism
Native rights
Neocolonialism
Political activism
Political anxiety
Political capital
Political criticism
Political Culture
Political elites
Political parties
Political protests
Political reform
Political rhetoric
Political sociology
Politics
Populism
Race
Racism
Rhetoric
Scholarly Controversy: Class and the Politics of Identity
Social activism
Social classes
Working class
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Summary:In this response I argue that class politics are always experienced culturally, and open to diverse expressions in specific historical moments. I attempt to show that class politics did not so much die in the 1960s as get rearticulated through linkages to conservative political positions. Finally, I argue that a revival of class politics on the left depends on the possibility of linking class to the other “identity” positions that Burgmann sees as competitors.
ISSN:0147-5479
1471-6445
DOI:10.1017/S0147547905000062