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2 - The Awakening Self: Individuality and Class Consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

S. A. Smith
S. A. Smith
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University of Essex
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To address the theme of individuality in the context of working-class formation and Communist revolution may seem perverse. Class identity, after all, is usually seen as a form of collectivism, and individualism and collectivism tend to be positioned at opposite ends of a cultural spectrum. And to suggest, as I shall, that a growing sense of individuality was one of the elements that comprised the dynamic compound of changing social identities that made peasants-turned-workers susceptible to revolutionary mobilization – especially in Russia – may seem wide of the mark to those who know that a phobic antipathy to ‘petty-bourgeois individualism’ became a hallmark of Russian and Chinese Communism. Moreover, the apparent incongruity of the theme is heightened when one considers the cultures under investigation: Russian culture appears historically to incarnate a form of collectivism that is extreme by the standards of peasant societies in Europe; while Chinese culture appears to represent a Confucian collectivism that is the antithesis of western individualism. I wish to argue, however, that while it is heuristically useful to situate individualism and collectivism at two ends of a spectrum, the relationship between collectivism and individualism was historically more complex, contingent and mutable than social scientists and philosophers often allow.

Clifford Geertz famously observed that: ‘The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe … is, however incorrigible it seems to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures.

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Revolution and the People in Russia and China
A Comparative History
 , pp. 69 - 110
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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