16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is Mark's Theory of History Getting Wrong?
The book is based on some arguments about what he thinks mark's got wrong. And i think that's worth taking very seriously, because often this approach gets ridiculed for its just it's not deep enough. It sees things on the surface, not dialectical. But you have to actually respond to his arguments about what was wrong with the mark's theory of history to begin with. The socialism that comes about from revolutionary transformation would end up changing human beings whose egotism and anti social behavior are a result of capitalist formation.
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