Citizenship and Capitalism (RLE Social Theory): The Debate over Reformism (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

by Bryan S . Turner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $152.07

  In this study of politics in capitalist society Bryan Turner explores the development of citizenship as a way of demonstrating the effective use of political institutions by the working class and other subordinate groups to promote their interests. Marxist criticisms of reformism are rejected; it is shown that subordinate groups can achieve significant advances in social and economic rights, and that democracy is not a sham but a necessary mechanism for the pursuit of interests.