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Louis Althusser: Marxist Theory and Philosophy

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Marx's Science of Society Is Neither Rationalist Nor Empiricist

Altister argues that Marx's science of society is neither rationalist nor empiricist. Everything happening in society does two things with all the other parts of society number one is that everything is co-causing and affecting everything else. Over determinism over determination means that every single concept or every single process in your theory from cars to wage labor to the feudal structure of traditional households, prisons to you know the Ukraine war. If you change one term right it changes everything at least a little bit so that's kind of over determination I see I see.

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