Class formation allows more positions than simple European Marxism permits.

Evidence

A given number of individuals, therefore, can be society to a greater or lesser degree, just as a given number of sounds can be music to a greater or lesser degree. Society as a form presents the ideality of a world awaiting actualization in history. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 51 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels; Marxism conceives society as overdetermined relatively autonomous levels, not a simple unity; Marxism is a Western construction rooted in European historical experience (+1 more)

Related

• A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees. (similarity 0.81)
• Social formations form complex unities structured in dominance rather than expressive identities. (similarity 0.79)
• Any social group can act as individual or aggregate depending on its relational frame. (similarity 0.79)
• Marxist class categories froze into a fixed historical image of class (similarity 0.79)
• Class in Marxism is a differential, relational concept rather than an isolated substance (similarity 0.78)
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract (similarity 0.78)
• Totalitarian rule dispenses with the consensus iuris that constitutes a people. (similarity 0.78)
• Society operates as a complex formation structured in dominance with relative institutional autonomy (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees. #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 51
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #responds-to (0.70)
• Marxism conceives society as overdetermined relatively autonomous levels, not a simple unity #corroborates (0.65)
• Marxism is a Western construction rooted in European historical experience #corroborates (0.60)