Abstract
Karl Marx has been the most powerful theorist of class conflict and class struggles. The identification of the class which controls the means of production has been the focus of Marxist class analysts, who lend no credence to the theses put forward by scholars who emphasise nation-building or cultural revival as a means of promoting integration and transcending class divisions.1
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Jacques Berque, ‘L’Idée de Classes dans l’Histoire contemporaine des Arabes’, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, vol. 38 (1965) pp. 169–84.
Karl Marx, ‘The German Ideology: Part I’, in The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. R. C. Tucker (New York: W. W. Norton, 1972) pp. 110–64.
Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (Moscow: Foreign Language Publishing House, 1961) pp. 77–8.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, quoted in Marx and Engels: Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, ed. L. Feuer (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959) p. 17.
Quoted in M. B. Brown, ‘A Critique of Marxist Theories of Imperialism’, in Studies in the Theory of Imperialism, ed. Roger Owen and B. Sutcliffe, (London: Longman, 1972) p. 52.
Nicos Poulantzas, Pouvoir Politique et Classes Sociales, 2 vols (Paris: Maspero, 1971) p. 62.
Marnia Lazreg, The Emergence of Classes in Algeria (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1976) p. 11.
Mahmoud Hussein, Class Conflict in Egypt: 1945–1970 (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973) p. 17.
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Hussain, A. (1984). The Marxist Perspective. In: Political Perspectives on the Muslim World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17529-1_6
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