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Historical Materialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

R. F. Atkinson
R. F. Atkinson
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University of Exeter
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Historical materialism I take to be the view expressed in the well-known Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) and exemplified in Capital and in many other writings by Marx and by Marxists. I shall begin with a few introductory remarks, next sketch in the theory, and finally contend that, despite real attractions, it too far limits the scope of legitimate historical enquiry to be ultimately acceptable.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 14: Marx and Marxisms , September 1982 , pp. 57 - 69
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1982

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