This paper proposes and illustrates an argument for bring class back into the analysis of rural poverty and its causes in a globalizing world, with implications for development policy.

• 摘要文章认为，在现代全球化商品生产环境下，构建生产和再生产的社会关系从普遍意义上讲就是阶级关系，提出应重回阶级视角审视和分析农村贫困及其产生原因。