Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels
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Marxism and Historical Materialism - The Political Equivalent of Being a Cafeteria Christian
I was a free thinker. And the fact that my eclectic ideas were eclectic was seen by me as evidence that I'm actually thinking outside the confines of any dogma and doctrine, he says. It's also very bourgeois and individualists. What Marxism and historical materialism offer is a concrete analysis of concrete conditions,. A critique of capitalism that undercovers and explains the specific mechanisms and internal laws by which it came to be. The results are studied using a materialist analysis; parts of the theory are updated or discarded depending on their real world successes or failures.
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