後期資本主義社会における新中間階級の経済的機能

階級規模と資本利潤の関連を中心に

抄録

There has been continuous increase in size of ‘new middle class’ in almost all the advanced capitalist societies through this century. However, Marxist class theory cannot explain this increase satisfactorily even now. This article attempts to study on the relation between the size of this class and the profit amount of capital, based on the concept submitted in another article before. To attain this end, we examine and analyze both economic conditions separately on which individual capital can increase its profit amount and on which whole capital in the society can.