“Thanks to a documentation that is very large and amazingly informative, Losurdo convincingly shows how his scheme of class struggle is useful to explain modern history up to the present times. Far from being just a history of the concept of class struggle and of the meanings it has assumed over time, Losurdo’s book is a great essay of philosophy of history.” (Gianni Vattimo, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy)

“In his new book Losurdo demonstrates brilliantly with a great clarity and rigor a very important thesis today: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Gramsci and Mao have developed a non-binary conception of class struggle. The integral concept of class struggle goes beyond the classical opposition between Work and Capital. It includes the secular feminist fight for emancipation from male domination and the modern battles for national liberation.” (André Tosel, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Nice, France)

“Losurdo shows convincingly that the often maligned concept of class struggle can be used in a productive way when put in a broader context. When class struggle is thus defined as a comprehensive theory of social conflict the term becomes indeed a highly useful instrument in analyzing the various aspects of the present global crisis and their interconnections.” (Jürgen Pelzer, Professor, Occidental College, USA)