| | Marxist analysis of South Africa enjoyed an unparalleled resurgence in the 1970s. Spearheaded by Wolpe and Legassick's class based critiques of liberal analysis in the early 1970s, a new generation of Marxist scholars attempted to develop the appropriate theoretical concepts to locate racial categories within those of class and capital accumulation (see, for example, Legassick, 1974; 1980; Wolpe, 1972). This had a profound impact on the problematic of liberalism that had previously dominated our understanding of this society. For a time, it swept off the map of radical analytic discourse any discussion of South Africa which was not grounded in concepts and theory derived from Marxist discourse. |
