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. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat exemplifies the “struggle” of what concept (10[1])according to Karl Marx? ■END■ (10[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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