ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on Chapters 5 and 6 of this book, which focus on outlining the class structure of capitalist society. It asks: What are working-class struggles? What is the role of communication in class struggles? What do working-class struggles look like in the age of digital capitalism?
Section 11.2 describes how Marx conceived of class struggles. Section 11.3 deals with the question of what protest movements are and in what relation the working class and communism stand to other protest movements. Section 11.4 looks at class struggles in the age of digital capitalism.
Class struggles are the practical, conscious expression of the working class’s desire to weaken capital’s power in order to advance a fair, just, and good society. Marxist theory and socialist praxis situate progressive protest movements in the context of capitalism and class.
Given the changes of the working class and the importance of the social worker, the social factory, digitalisation, globalisation, the rise of prosumption and freelancers in capitalism, then class struggles, communists, socialists, and trade unions require new concepts, new strategies, and new methods of struggle in the age of digital capitalism.
