Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen (1957) presents the world of labour where two social classes, capitalist class and working class, with hierarchies between each other among themselves, clash, which ends exploitation proletariat by bourgeoisie. harsh conditions at restaurant, changing pace work, little time given employer to employees rest socialise, dehumanising aspect are presented through relation...

The revolutionary group Lotta Continua (LC, Continuous Struggle) was founded in Turin 1969, following the encounter between student protests and a labour movement fuelled by massive northward migration from southern Italy. One year later LC growing into nationwide launched programme aimed at unifying proletariat, lumpenproletariat, whose protagonists were recent Italian immigrants who could har...

Democracy: Marx’s theory of history (ex. Organization of the mode of production determines superstructure; unequal distribution of labor) explains the lack of actual democracy in capitalist societies; however, Marx’s thought concerning progression (also a theory of history) states that capitalist societies would eventually progress to a democratic state after a revolution of the proletariat. Ma...

Abstract This article intends to show what extent the early Marxian categories of alienation, ideology and proletariat can serve better understand current forms epistemic injustice, as well as, conversely, how latter illuminate some unclear aspects such concepts. In first part, it will be explained which Marx’s concept alienation accounts for experience an individual in a world whose norms she ...

In this essay, hegemony in traditional Marxism is posited as a social ontology based on overcoming the alienation of masses. The aim to produce full realization through work proletariat one specific political subject, collective version bourgeois subject. emancipation marks self-realization subject history, that somehow imposes itself alienated forms capitalism. On other hand, poshegemony thoug...