Productive Forces and Relations of Production: A Study of the Dynamics of Mary's Theory of Historical Change

First Published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This thesis centres on Karl Marx's conceptualization of the forces of production, which I argue has received poor treatment in contemporary Marxist literature and is in need of reconstruction. Narrow and 'lifeless' understandings of the concept serve to drag Marx into a modernist 'march of progress, ' which is at

This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. The editor, Neil J. Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included works by Friedrich Engels. The first section, "The Structure of

This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx’s theory of value and considers the types of questions and modes of analysis to which this theory

In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx’s attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx’s thought. The radical possibilities