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Louis Althusser: Marxist Theory and Philosophy

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The Determinist Theory of the Transition From Capitalism to Socialism

Determinist logic says that there are a myriad of causal relationships and their interconnection that can basically result in any given social phenomena such that you can't reduce it to one cause. That kind of essentialist explanation even though it has been accepted by millions and millions of communists right still today is not a Marxist explanation because it is essentializing the personality of this guy all right who existed.

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