Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz


 * Executive Committee, Sociologists without Borders
 * Director, Left Forum
 * Member, New York Jobs with Justice
 * Editorial Collective, Theory in Action
 * Advisory Board, Transformative Studies Institute
 * Sponsor, New Politics

Criticism
Michael Parenti writes: “Even among persons normally identified as progressive, one finds a reluctance to deal with the reality of capitalist class power. Sometimes the dismissal of the C-word is quite categorical. At a meeting in New York in 1986 I heard the sociologist Stanley Aronowitz comment, “When I hear the word ‘class’ I just yawn.” For Aronowitz, class is a concept of diminishing importance used by those he repeatedly referred to as “orthodox Marxists.”” (pp.144-5)