Bronterre O'Brien's class analysis: The formative phase,1832-1836

• Autores: Ben Maw
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 28, Nº 2, 2007, págs. 253-289
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on the analysis of class formulated by the anti-capitalist journalist and Chartist James Bronterre O'Brien. It argues that O'Brien's work contained the first example within working-class anti-capitalist political economy of a fully elaborated analysis of class antagonism. The article takes issue with recent accounts of O'Brien, which have seen his analysis as focused exclusively on the political rather than the economic realm, and which have denied the class character of his work. At the same time, it views O'Brien in his intellectual and historical contexts, thus eschewing the teleological framework within which his work has mostly been analysed