Class Warfare in France: Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Social Protests

The article raises the question of how applicable the findings of the Marxist doctrine might be in analyzing modern-day social events, including the yellow vests protest movement in France; compares the presidential campaigns of Emmanuel Macron and the Socialist Party during the 2017 French presidential election; discloses the optional and superfluous nature of labor in public life as well as other unprecedented ideas in the campaign of the Socialist Party; the win of E. Macron at the presidential election is considered as a win of public image over election program; the present French protests are compared to the events of May 1968 and the autonomous far-left anarchist movement of 2008; the Marxist formula of surplus value is adjusted for the post-industrial era; new ideas are outlined in the interpretation of historical records of implementing the ideas of K. Marx in practice; reasons are provided for a possible new "communist utopia" based on planned economy and using the benefits of the algorithmic society.

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marxism, surplus value, social protest, algorithmic society, market economy, planned economy, neoliberalism, noosphere, limits to growth, consumer society, affluent society

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12.10.2019

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13.10.2019

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GOST	Schulz V., Liubimova T. Class Warfare in France: Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Social Protests // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2019. – Issue 10 C. 27-38 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250007108-1-1-en (circulation date: 18.03.2025). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007108-1
MLA	Schulz, Vladimir L., Liubimova, Tatiana M. "Class Warfare in France: Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Social Protests." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 10 (2019):27-38. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007108-1
APA	Schulz V., Liubimova T. (2019). Class Warfare in France: Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Social Protests. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (10), pp.27-38 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007108-1

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