[lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Sat May 31 10:08:54 PDT 2008


Marx directly addresses the issue of natural scientific like theory in social science in the following:

Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic - in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface-abs.htm

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