POL 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Impressment, Class Conflict, Longrun
12 Apr 2016
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It focuses on the material basis of class relations and class struggle. It allows for both individual and collective acts. of resistance. It does not exclude those forms of ideological resistance that challenge the dominant de nition of the situation and assert different standards of justice and equity. Finally, it focuses on intentions rather than consequences, recognizing that many acts of resistance may fail to achieve their intended result. Thus it is reasonably clear that the women in the share groups intended to deny machine users transplanting services and thereby force them to revert to hand harvesting. The mutuality among the poor that prevents them competing for tenancies is also clearly intended to prevent a scramble that would eventually harm all tenants. In each case, the intentions are not inferred directly from the action but rather from the explanations the participants give for their behavior.
