----- Original Message ----- From: "Rakesh Bhandari" <bhandari at berkeley.edu>
Yet Marx was a social scientist (because he was not a nice guy, he was not a philosopher like Aristotle or Kant); he had his invisible hand theory, for he shows that in the pursuit of profit capitalists MUST create as if led by invisible hand the possibility and necessity a higher mode of production, though that can be achieved only through the visible hand of class struggle! It's the combining of invisible and visible hands which makes Marx appear a positivist and scientist.
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Or he couldn't let go of hierarchical and teleological thinking, with all their attendant fallacies, when it came to macrosocial dynamics.