Class Action

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Reading Labor, Theory, and Value

By William Corlett
Cornell University Press

Class Action attempts to contest capitalist economics and strengthen workers’ organizations while respecting the importance of all members of society. It reveals the numbers of human lives marked for extinction by capitalist ideology and often erased by traditional Marxism. William Corlett reinterprets some of Marx’s best-known texts and moves toward a plan for direct action. Relocating union organizing and anticapitalist struggle to the least-valued sites in communities can, Corlett argues, encourage people to share resources in mutual support and defense while practicing irredentist maneuvers in the name of a Labor underground.