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What is to be done? Reflections on Brian Palmer’s ‘Approaching Working-Class History as Struggle’

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This commentary focuses on three issues: definitions of class, visions of the future, and notion of false consciousness. It argues that contemporary conditions call for the rebuilding of solidarity based on grounded engagement with actually existing circumstances.

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  1. Institute for Religion Politics and Society, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

    Sally A. Weller

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Weller, S.A. What is to be done? Reflections on Brian Palmer’s ‘Approaching Working-Class History as Struggle’. Dialect Anthropol 42, 477–480 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-018-9510-0

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