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The second part (“Theoretical models and political issues”) begins with an analysis of two dynamic meanings of the political centrality of work: the democratisation of work can be considered as a result or as a condition of the democratic transformation of society. The first path is tantamount to the class struggle paradigm, inherited from Marx, for which the democratic reorganisation of labour is by rights conditioned by a revolutionary transformation of social and political institutions. Through a transversal reading of Marxism, this chapter reconstructs the democratic labour model by examining the relations between labour, revolution, and working-class government.
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Marx, Karl. 2010. Letter to Weydemeyer. 5 March 1852. In Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 30. London: Lawrence & Wishmart, 62.
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Ibid., 62–65.
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Ibid.
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Marx, Karl. 2010. Drafts of The Civil War in France. In Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 22. London: Lawrence & Wishmart, 500.
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Marx, Karl. 2010. Critique of the Gotha programme. In Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 24. London: Lawrence & Wishmart, 93.
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See for example Artous, Antoine. 2003. Travail et émancipation: Marx et le travail. Paris: Syllepse.
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Marx, Karl. 2010. The Poverty of Philosophy. In Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 24. London: Lawrence & Wishmart, 138.
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Ibid., 211.
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Marx, Karl. 2010. Capital, vol. 1. In Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 35. London: Lawrence & Wishmart, 504–505.
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To use an expression of Marx’s in an address to the League of Communists, see Marx, Karl. 1973. Minutes of Central Committee Meeting of 15 September 1850. In Karl Marx, The Revolutions of 1848. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 341.
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Marx, Karl. 2010. Manifesto of the Communist Party. In Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 6. London: Lawrence & Wishmart, 514–515.
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Ibid., 515.
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Ibid., 516.
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Ibid., 519.
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Ibid.
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Marx, Karl. Critique of the Gotha Programme. Op. cit., 94.
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Marx, Karl. The Civil War in France. Op. cit, 335. See on this subject Robelin, Jean. 1989. Marxisme et socialisation. Paris: Meridiens Klincksieck, 24.
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Marx, Karl. Inaugural Address of the Congress of the Working Men’s International Association. In Marx Engels Collected Works, vol. 10. London: Lawrence & Wishmart, 11.
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Ibid., 11–12.
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Ibid., 12.
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Marx, Karl. The Civil War in France. Op. cit., 334.
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Ibid., 328.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., 331.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., 332.
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Ibid., 333.
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Ibid., 332.
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Ibid., 334–335.
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Robelin, Jean. Marxisme et socialisation. Op. cit., 25.
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Marx, Karl. The Civil War in France. Op. cit., 334. See on this subject Kouvélakis, Stathis. 2015. Marx et la forme-politique. In Marx politique, eds. Jean-Numa Ducange and Isabelle Garo. Paris: La Dispute.
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Marx, Karl. Inaugural Address of the Congress of the International Working Men’s Association. Art. cit., 11.
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Cukier, A. (2023). The Class Struggle: Revolutionising Institutions to Democratise Labour. In: Democratic Work. Marx, Engels, and Marxisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27856-3_4
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