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Such is the power of early conditioning, that it is only after many years of reflection that I have come to question the university of the class struggle. Economic exploitation, and an intimate relationship between economic and political power, may be almost universal. But there are some societies in which the relationship to the means of production does not define the political struggle, and in which class conflict is not the source of revolutionary change.

In a purely theoretical analysis of pol'al change in racially plural societies, 3 diff analytical perspectives are presented. Marxist theory emphasizes the primacy of class relations in a revolutionary dialectic of pol'al change, but there are many difficulties in its application to a racially plural society, arising more particularly from the fact that racial & class divisions do not fully coincide, & from the failure in class solidarity between members of diff races. Models derived from E. Durkheim's analysis of the progressive DofL provide a theory of evolutionary change based upon the development of cross-cutting relationships between members of diff races which establish new forms of solidarity, transcending the old divisions. Again, in racially plural societies, where the races are pol'ly incorporated on a basis of inequality, it is difficult to see how interpersonal relations & solidarities between individual members of diff racial sections can be translated into pol'al change by evolutionary means. Plural society theory emphasizes the structural cleavages between the races & may explain some of the otherwise intractable phenomena of change in plural societies. A model of revolutionary change, based on the Marxist model, is presented, but derived from the diff'ial pol'al incorporation of the races, instead of the diff'ial relationship to the means of production. AA.

Most contemporary theories of revolution are derived from the analysis of conflict between social classes in racially homogeneous societies, and they may not be very illuminating when applied to situations of revolutionary struggle between racial groups. This is the problem I discuss in the present paper, and my purpose, in general, is to raise some questions concerning the applicability of theories of class revolution to racial revolution.