01262nam a22001457a 4500 523969 523969 231018b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Pfaler, Lauri Von 44202 Class structure without politics or history? International Sociology Reviews 38(5), Sep, 2023: p.541-551 This review essay considers Vivek Chibber’s social theory of capitalism critically and develops some of the themes that a historicist social theory of capitalist stability should integrate theoretically. I start by outlining Chibber’s notable book and present its key claim about the materiality and primacy of class structure in terms of economic decision-making. I then point out the limits and antinomies of structural theory as a historical explanation, sketch the contours of a historicist methodology and provide examples of three political phenomena that are irreducible to the class structure but that have been central for the reproduction of capitalism. The final section considers the political consequences of my historicist criticism of Chibber. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02685809231194130 International Sociology Reviews CAPITALISM AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 399019 IIPA IIPA 2023-10-18 38(5), Sep, 2023: p.541-551 AR129853 2023-10-18 AR