@RP: “A strange sort of “Marxist” who barely refers to class..”
Apart, that is, from authoring the following books:
Class, Crisis and the State, London: New Left Books, 1978; .
Class Structure and Income Determination, New York: Academic Press, 1979.
Classes (London: Verso, 1985).
The Debate on Classes (London: Verso, 1990)
Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Yep. Erik Olin Wright, Barely mentions class. first thing that springs to mind.