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Rational choice Marxism
Abstract
To begin with, rational choice Marxism, promised to construct historical explanations and social theories with clarity and rigour. Subsequently, it took a `political turn' in addressing issues of class and production, and the prospects for electoral socialism. This anthology commences with the founding classics - Erik Olin Wright's `What is Analytical Marxism?' and Alan Carling's spirited challenge to the Marxist establishment - which are answered with critical responses detailed by Ellen Meiksins Wood and Michael Burawoy in previously uncollected debates. Also included are further debates charting the historical progression of rational choice Marxism. The editors demonstrate that the clarity and rigour originally promised by the rational choice Marxists was never in fact achieved, but that rational choice Marxism has considerably enhanced the theoretical treatment of class and production in a world of commodification and difference.
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is the game worth the candle?
pp.79-135
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24183-5_4a reply to Burawoy
pp.167-190
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24183-5_6the metaphysical foundation of analytical Marxism
pp.191-199
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24183-5_7pp.258-274
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24183-5_10towards a more meaningful incomprehension
pp.301-323
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24183-5_12Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1995
Pages: 338
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24183-5
ISBN (hardback): 978-0-333-61766-3
ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-24183-5
Full citation:
Carver Terrell, Thomas Paul (1995) Rational choice Marxism. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.