nam 22 uu 4500 s |||||||||||||||||||||| Marx, the Proletariat, and the 'Will to Socialism' Dr Dr Author marc.mulholland@stcatz.ox.ac.uk University of Oxford Humanities Division - History Faculty St Catherine's College Publisher Article: post-print Author's Original 2009 This article examines the development of Marx’s thought in its attempt to explain why the proletariat as a class were historically inclined to accept socialist ideas. For Marx, socialist consciousness arises from an innate desire to secure one’s mode of subsistence. Class consciousness always idealises independent proprietorship. This holds true for proletarians. However, as capitalism makes individual proprietorship impossible, only collective ownership appears to offer secure independence. This is a preprint of an article submitted for consideration in the Critique © 2009 Taylor & Francis; Critique is available online at informaworld™: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t741801732 Marx class-consciousness Gracchus Babeuf Flora Tristan Karl Kautsky working-class History of Britain and Europe Modern Britain and Europe Intellectual History Political science Political ideologies 0301-7605 http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk:8081/http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk:8081/10030/2794 37:3< Critique