>In a talk at Columbia last year, Duncan Foley argued that one of the
>greatest analytical triumphs of Marxism was those Eastern European Marxists
>who predicted the downfall of Soviet-style regimes, on the basis of their
>analysis of these as class societies.
>
>Any idea of who exactly he was talking about, and what they had to say?
>
>Doug
The only such Marxist I know of is the Polish Leszek Nowak, Property and Power: Towards a Non-Marxian Historical Materialism (D Reidel Publishing Company, 1983). Funny , I was just reading his introductory chapter on Marx's method of idealization this morning. Best, rakesh