Marx contributed the central propositions of the Manifesto, which embody the materialist conception of history, or historical materialism. This theory was later explicitly formulated in Marx's ...

Marx’s own great contribution was to articulate a materialist approach to history (“historical materialism”) in which the production and reproduction of human existence (the “economic base” of society ...

and others — thinkers who developed their work in direct contrast to Marx and the historical, political bent of his dialectical materialism. It is no surprise then that theories have emerged about the ...

A. Cohen, who went from defending an interpretation of Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism to rejecting that theory and expressing sympathy for key tenets of liberal egalitarianism ...

as subscribed to in the Marxist tradition. Instead, he turned philosophy’s search for the totality into a materialist critique of an irrational reality. This was a materialism which did not celebrate ...

In Western Marxism, Domenico Losurdo takes 20th-century European and American Marxists to task for unfairly dismissing ...

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...

the Marxist theorists sought to update his social theory, rectify the sociological positions of historical materialism and respond to philosophical challenges with a Marxist reply. This book provides ...

From the New Deal through the George W. Bush era, the Marxist view of politics largely held up. The rich and educated ...

Jon Elster surveys in turn each of the main themes of marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology; in a final chapter he ...