<sup>108</sup> The essential point here is that if, famously, ‘the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles’, this proclamation can only be sustained after the needs of capital, or more precisely, after the real subsumption of the labour-process under capital, has been established as the condition of thinking ‘the history of all hitherto existing society’. See Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, 34. The historical importance of class struggle is not thereby diminished: it is simply given its ontological and epistemological basis.
<sup>109</sup> Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx, 46, 44.
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