Why ‘class’ is too soft a category to capture the explosiveness of social inequality at the beginning of the twenty-first century

We can distinguish four positions on the continuing, or maybe even increasing, relevance of the category of class at the beginning of the twenty‐first century depending on the extent to which they accord central importance to (1) the reproduction or (2) the transformation of social classes with regard to (3) the distribution of goods without bads or (4) the distribution of goods and bads. One could say that D ean C urran introduces the concept...