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The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Class Based Contestations in Neoliberal France

Abstract

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<p>This thesis documents the patterns of resistance taken up by the far left in France from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. Responding directly to the neoliberal reshaping of the French economy the groups that composed the far left diverged on terms of strategy, some holding fast to the class based contention of the previous decades, some jettisoning the language of class for one of identity and democratic inclusion. This project documents these changes and takes up the theoretical debates surrounding them, primarily the debates surrounding “post-Marxism.” It is an intervention on the enduring necessity of class struggle for understanding contentious politics.</p>

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
Master
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Political Science
Grantor
The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Year dc:date.available
2020

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Goodson, Sam
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • John Krinsky

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3801
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-4926

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2026-07-24
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citation

Goodson, Sam. Class Based Contestations in Neoliberal France. Master thesis, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York, 2020. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3801