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16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is Mark's Theory of Capitalism a Crisis Theory?

i agree in principle that all these sort of anti social and egoistic characteristics seem to me to be resulting from the capitalist's mode of production. I still have some worries btten in the back of a, i don't know how much we want to get waylaid on this,. because i had pretty serious problems with the presentation of historical materialism in the book that he critiques. Ye, that is a tough question, cause i, like you, owen, like i'm not totally sure that likethe, the demonstration of there being real contradictions is a demonstration of something's impossibility or the necessity of its change? Does that make sense? And so like, hat again, ye

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