01379nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003000060245004900090260003700139300003200176520084700208773003701055906001501092942000701107952010701114 c523969d523969231018b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d aPfaler, Lauri Von 944202 aClass structure without politics or history? aInternational Sociology Reviews  a38(5), Sep, 2023: p.541-551 aThis 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  aInternational Sociology Reviews  aCAPITALISM cAR 00102ddc40709399019aIIPAbIIPAd2023-10-18h38(5), Sep, 2023: p.541-551pAR129853r2023-10-18yAR