ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book shows how the modern class narrative, shaped in particular by the legacy of Karl Marx and Max Weber, has constructed a truth based on assumptions about the world's inequities and injustices, and the subjects which should be included in the fight to overcome them. Advocates of the neo-Marxist approach have argued that people's demands for visibility, for recognition of what they really are, have led them to ignore the most pressing political issues, namely economic and social inequality, or, more specifically, class. Class is then a question of how hierarchies and dependencies arise between groups when social, economic, and cultural resources are distributed in different patterns. One particular effect of the advance of feminism and other social movements, married with the cultural turn, has been to put the question of people's identities high on the political and scholarly agendas.
