Apparently (and I’ve had a little off-list help on this), it’s Bukharin.
I’d tracked it down to a volume I’d picked up along the way called ‘Aspects of History and Class Consciousness’, edited by István Mászáros, according to its introduction the papers collected in which ‘were originally written for a series of open lectures held at Sussex University in 1969-70 and, when necessary, revised by their authors in the light of the discussion that followed each lecture …’ Amongst others, there are essays here by Mászáros himself, Hobsbawm, Bottomore, Lucien Goldmann, Miliband. I’d never got round to reading it before but as I’ve been thinking about these things recently I’d leafed through it. In this volumen, Goldmann mentions ‘class in itself’ once, commenting on ‘the distinction which Marx made between class in itself and class for itself’, without a reference, Mészáros mentions the concept multiple times, both in the introduction, and in an essay titled ‘Contingent and necessary class consciousness’, which references ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire’ and the ‘Poverty of Philosophy’ (where, as I now know, Marx never uses it), and occasionally Lukács. Poulantzas uses the term various times (Classes in Contemporary Capitalism (1975), Political Power and Social Classes (1978), in the former attributing it, without citation, to Lukács). I couldn’t find it in Lukács; nor in Lenin, or Trotsky, nor in Engels or Kautsky. But then Mandel (1970) uses it in his The Leninist Theory of Organisation (https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/196x/leninism/index.htm), referencing Marx but citing Bukharin’s Historical Materialism (1921), where sure enough, it’s there (https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1921/histmat/index.htm). Bukharin, incorrectly, cites Marx. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8572): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8572 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82800900/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
