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Marxism and Methodological Individualism
“It is often held that Marxism embodies distinctive methodological doctrines which distinguish it from ‘bourgeois’ social science. The difference has been characterized in various ways: Marxism is scientific and materialist, bourgeois theory ideological and idealist; Marxism is holistic, bourgeois theory is individualistic; Marxism is dialectical and historical, bourgeois . . .” read more
Rationality and Class Struggle
“It is commonplace for writers on Marx, whether Marxists of various tendencies or critics of varying degrees of sympathy for Marxism, to hold that among Marx’s major theoretical achievements was the inauguration of a new ‘theory’ of history, designated ‘historical materialism’. While aspects of this theory were intimated . . .” read more