Fundamental Problematics of Class Analysis Metin Özuğurlu This paper aims to redefine the main components of the historical materialist class analysis by rejecting its post-modern critiques which accuse historical materialism of being reductionist, determinist and essentialist. By attributing analytical priority to class struggle, the paper focuses mainly on four problems concerning class analysis. The first problem is about the relations between the objective and subjective dimensions of class; the second one concerns the relations between class and 'non-class' based social contradictions; the third one is related to the relations between class struggle and social change through which the revolutionary capacity of working class is put into question, and the final one is about the internal diversification of the working classes.