Vivek Chibber breaks down how the Marxist tradition has theorized class and why, even as the lines between wage-earning workers and the salaried middle class seem to be constantly shifting, class analysis is paramount for the Left’s political organizing.

Utilizing class analysis is the bread and butter of socialist politics. But understanding how classes are shaped and reproduced has changed over time.

In a recent episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber breaks down how the Marxist tradition has theorized class, the difference between a class in itself and a class for itself, and how class analysis is used within political organizing.

Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and published by Jac

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