What Kind of Class Consciousness is there in the Anglosphere Today?
Start Date
15-4-2023 10:30 AM
End Date
15-4-2023 11:30 AM
Description
In my paper I will distinguish two senses in which the term "class consciousness" can be understood: 1. the characteristic kind of mentality of a group of people; 2. the awareness of some person(s) of the topic of socio-economic class and of their class or its interests in particular. Then I will argue that the changes in society which accompanied the rise of neoliberalism — deindustrialization, financialization, deregulation, privatization — gave rise to the proliferation of kind of class consciousness in the first sense distinguished above which virtually obliterated class consciousness in the second sense. Finally, I will consider the ways in which this phenomenon is especially pronounced within the contemporary political left by considering some examples of "left neoliberalism".
What Kind of Class Consciousness is there in the Anglosphere Today?
In my paper I will distinguish two senses in which the term "class consciousness" can be understood: 1. the characteristic kind of mentality of a group of people; 2. the awareness of some person(s) of the topic of socio-economic class and of their class or its interests in particular. Then I will argue that the changes in society which accompanied the rise of neoliberalism — deindustrialization, financialization, deregulation, privatization — gave rise to the proliferation of kind of class consciousness in the first sense distinguished above which virtually obliterated class consciousness in the second sense. Finally, I will consider the ways in which this phenomenon is especially pronounced within the contemporary political left by considering some examples of "left neoliberalism".