“Nostalgia” and “Protests”: Class Consciousness and Class-For-Itself

Shan Shanne Huang ()
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Shan Shanne Huang: United Nations Development Programme

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s–2010s, 2023, pp 161-196 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter clarifies two phenomena: nostalgia and protests. Such nostalgia reflects workers’ bygone privileges in artificially established socialist enterprises under Mao’s rule. Workers’ protests show their newly gained class consciousness during post-Mao reforms. The ongoing collective activism demonstrates a transformation from a “class-in-itself” to a “class-for-itself”, à la Karl Marx.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20455-5_5

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