这本书回顾了马克思对工人阶级辩论的贡献。这部作品的第一部分综合了马克思和恩格斯（以及20世纪马克思主义作家）对理解社会阶级、阶级斗争和工人阶级的主要贡献。剩下的部分展示了马克思和马克思主义者在第一部分中关于工人阶级的讨论与当今阶级现实的经验要素之间的对话练习，以及社会科学和史学界对同样问题的辩论。书中捍卫的论点很简单：“工人阶级”，也被称为“无产阶级”，正如在卡尔·马克思的著作中所出现的那样，作为理解资本主义社会生活的分析范畴，它已经并且具有合法性。然而，马克思对这个问题的讨论是复杂的，他的方法中的“工人阶级”范畴比许多马克思主义者提出的范围更广。
The Working Class from Marx to Our Times
This book reviews Marx’s contributions to the debate on the working class. The first part of the work presents the synthesis of the main contributions of Marx and Engels (and 20th century Marxist writers) to the understanding of social classes, the class struggle, and the working class. The remaining parts present exercises of dialogue between Marx’s and Marxists’ discussions on the working class, presented in the first part, and empirical elements of class reality today, as well as debates in the social sciences and historiography on the same issues. The thesis defended in the book is simple: the “working class,” also called the “proletariat,” as it appears in the work of Karl Marx, had and has validity as an analytical category for the understanding of social life under capitalism. Nevertheless, Marx’s discussion on the issue is complex and the category “working class” in his approach is wider than many Marxists have presented it.
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