Round 4: Tossup 20

This concept’s locations become contradictory with semi-autonomous workers and small employers according to Erik Olin Wright. This concept was shown to be historically formed in a study of England by E.P. Thompson. Sets of heterogeneous use-values lead to the overthrow of the objective form and in-turn reification according to a book by Georg Lukács studying a form of this concept in terms of (*) commodity fetishism. In order for this concept to become “for itself,” a thinker claimed that workers must first recognize their collective exploitation. For 10 points, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat (-5[1])exemplifies (10[1])the “struggle” of what concept according (10[1])to Karl Marx? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: social class [accept working class; or class consciousness; or class struggle; or contradictory class locations; accept The Making of the English Working Class; accept History and Class Consciousness]
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24683%0%83%101.00
Triangle Cup2026-03-133100%0%33%95.00
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13367%0%33%96.50
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13450%0%25%96.00
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13580%0%80%101.50
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-243100%0%0%85.33
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-244100%25%75%85.75
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-304100%0%0%98.75
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19580%0%0%94.75
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-178100%38%25%77.25