On Political Identity

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Notes of the Robert Meister's "Political identity : thinking through Marx"(1990).

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Robert Meister, Political identity : thinking through Marx. B. Blackwell (1990).

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I The Politics of Subjectivity

1 Identity and Ideology

History and class consiciousness

2 Freedom of Mind
3 Liberation as Consciousness-Raising
4 From Alienation to Ideology

Part II The Critical Theory of Democracy

5 The Revolutionary Mystique
6 Democracy and Deradicalization
7 Unity and Fragmentation
8 Participation and Co-optation
9 State and Society

Part III Political Materialism

10 Out of the Hall of Mirrors
11 Class and Exploitation
12 Thinking Through Capital

Appendices
Appendix 1 The Hegelian System
Appendix 2 Democracy and Elections
Appendix 3 Marx's Critique of Political Economy
References
Index

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Introduction 1
Part I The Politics of Subjectivity 13
1 Identity and Ideology 15
    History and class consciousness 15
    The politics of culture 19
    Class, culture, and political identity 22
2 Freedom of Mind 29
    Desire and expectation 29
    Subject and object 32
    The limits of phenomenology 39
    Universal and particular 41
    Interpretation and critique 44
    Freedom of mind 49
3 Liberation as Consciousness-Raising 55
    Opacity and transparency 55
    Institution and social movements 58
    Liberation and consciousness-raising 63
    The politics of defeat 68
    Hegel's revenge 71
4 From Alienation to Ideology 74
    Marx and Hegel 74
    The philosopher and the world 75
    Objectivity 78
    Alienation and ideology 81
    Wholes and parts 83
    Materialism 86
    Marxism and relativism 90
    Theory and practice 93
Part II The Critical Theory of Democracy 97
5 The Revolutionary Mystique 99
    Marxism and democracy 99
    Political equality and majority rule 102
    The ghost of Rousseau 104
    Democracy and class analysis 107
    Liberty, equality, fraternity 110
    The Jacobin imagination 113
    Freedom and the modern state 116
    Group and individual in modern democracy 119
6 Democracy and Deradicalization 123
    The Jacobin legacy 123
    Democracy between revolutions 126
    The politics of anticlimax 129
    Revolution and counter-revolution 130
    Political fate 135
    Rebellion and reconciliation 141
    Marxism and Jacobinism 146
7 Unity and Fragmentation 151
    Class and group in modern politics 151
    Modernity and subjectivity 154
    Citizenship and social differentiation 159
    Citizenship and group identity 162
    Assimilation and cultural nationalism: the Jewish question 168
    Marx and the national question 173
8 Participation and Co-optation 176
    The political representation of social groups 176
    Responsiveness and autonomy 179
    Bureaucratic policy-making, legislative oversight, and public opinion 180
    Public and private interests 187
    The corporate interest of government 189
    The disorganization of civil society 190
    Marx's critique of Hegel 193
    Corporatism and pluralism 196
    Marx and group politics 199
    Group politics and class politics 202
9 State and Society 207
    A fable 207
    Public policy and democratic ideology 210
    Public ideology and policy science 212
    Public policy and social identity 215
    From policy to politics 218
    Regimes and institutions 220
    The ghost of Hegel 222
    Political development and social movements 225
    Marxian method and democratic politics 231
    Class analysis and the critical theory of democracy 235
Part III Political Materialism 237
10 Out of the Hall of Mirrors 239
    Ideology and science 239
    Materialism and social science 242
    Materialism and economism 249
    Two principles of social unity 252
    Value and distribution in market economies 255
    Expanded reproduction and the stationary state 257
    The market and the factory 262
    Conflict and fragmentation 266
    Gender identity and the division of labor 270
11 Class and Exploitation 277
    Class analysis and political economy 277
    The project of Capital 282
    Two concepts of exploitation 286
    The critical theory of income accounting 289
    Accounting for surplus value 294
    Reading Capital backwards 299
    Heterogenous labor 301
    A Marxism for markets 304
12 Thinking Through Capital 313
    Balance and equilibrium 313
    Circulation and distribution 316
    Consumption and investment 318
    Planning and regulation 324
    Regimes and parties 329
    Money, products, and people in the world economy 334
    Bringing history back in 340
    The end of history? 343
    The Marxian moment 346
Appendices 349
Appendix 1 The Hegelian System 351
    The phenomenological method 351
    The logical method 353
    The Left-Hegelians 355
    Marx 356
Appendix 2 Democracy and Elections 358
    Hegel 358
    The Left-Hegelians 359
    Marx 360
Appendix 3 Marx's Critique of Political Economy 362
    Phenomenological critique 362
    Historical critique 364
    Ricardian critique 365
    Logical critique 366