Focusing and expanding class analysis

This paper reviews the modalities of Marxian class analysis in two recent edited volumes, Class and Its Others and Re/Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism, edited by Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff, and J. K. Gibson-Graham. The essays in these volumes focus Marxian class analysis—by adopting a specific Marxian conception of class as the processes of producing (or performing), appropriating, and distributing surplus labor time—and expand that class analysis—by specifying the conditions of existence of class processes in concrete cases in a series of provocative class narratives and analyses.