TY - JOUR AU - Wright, Erik Olin AB - A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure ERIK OLIN WRIGHT THE POINT OF DEPARTURE: NEO-MARXIST ANALYSES OF CLASS STRUCTURE At the heart of the recent of Marxist on the resurgence theorizing be termed of class has been what the &dquo;embarrassment&dquo; problem might of the middle class. For all of their all Marxists share a disagreements, basic commitment to a abstract of class relations. polarized concept at least at first the concrete class structures of Yet, glance, contempo- advanced societies look but This rary capitalist anything polarized. evidence of a middle class has critics of Marx- empirical large provided ism with one of their Marxist class principal arguments against theory. a to the of In of solutions the middle class response, variety problem have been in the recent Marxist debates. proposed Without into it is to four going any detail, possible identify broadly different that Marxists have to deal with the strategies adopted concep- tual of class within a of problem nonpolarized positions logic polarized of class relations.2 the class structure advanced societies First, capitalist the &dquo;middle class&dquo; is an illusion. really is polarized; strictly ideological This deals with the of the middle class the position problem by TI - A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure JF - Politics & Society DO - 10.1177/003232928401300402 DA - 1984-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/a-general-framework-for-the-analysis-of-class-structure-2dcGQ3esj0 SP - 383 EP - 423 VL - 13 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -