From the Critique of Collective Action Theories to the Study of Political Class Composition

Abstract

The development of Marxist concepts of social conflict along with their connection with class struggle has been scarce and fragmentary. This vacant space is normally filled with categories borrowed from theories on collective action. The objective of this chapter is to attempt to determine the political composition processes in the working class from a critic of collective action theories. To that end, we will focus on some categories from the resource mobilization approach. We will propose that a Marxist analysis of the processes of class political composition cannot ignore the problem of collective action. We will base this problem on the process of subsumption of labor to capital and develop a work of critical appropriation of the categories: social infrastructure of mobilization, mobilization and organization.