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AI InsightOpposing those claiming to speak on behalf of the proletariat, and adopting the idea that the analysis of domination and exclusion has to be carried out in the exploited's own words and actions, he undertook an extensive research into the archives of the proletarian emancipative "dreams." We will try to show that he in fact always takes bearing of workers' emancipation struggles and dreams with his position in relation to the meaning of class, class struggle and its forms of relations with the Marxist tradition as well as with his understanding of democracy and political subjectivisation that is developed from this position.
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Abstract
The main purpose of this article, which focuses on Jacques Ranciere's long-term attempt to rethink the political, is to examine the distinctive features of his conceptions of democracy, politics and equality that originated from this attempt, in their connection with his understanding of proletariat and class struggle. The departure point of the article is that although he shares some common grounds with the thinkers on the post-1968 left who seek an alternative to Marxism, he remains as a quite exceptional and an original thinker. By interpreting "class struggle from a political point of view" instead of interpreting it as "politics from the perspective of class struggle" he places "class struggle as the power of declassification" in the centre of his understanding of politics. Opposing those claiming to speak on behalf of the proletariat, and adopting the idea that the analysis of domination and exclusion has to be carried out in the exploited's own words and actions, he undertook an extensive research into the archives of the proletarian emancipative "dreams." We will try to show that he in fact always takes bearing of workers' emancipation struggles and dreams with his position in relation to the meaning of class, class struggle and its forms of relations with the Marxist tradition as well as with his understanding of democracy and political subjectivisation that is developed from this position.