Concept
Analytical Marxism
Overview
Analytical Marxism is an academic school of Marxist theory which emerged in the late 1970s, largely prompted by G. A. Cohen's Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (1978). In this book, Cohen drew on the Anglo–American tradition of analytic philosophy in an attempt to align Marxist theory with an analytic style and standard, which led to his distancing of Marxism from continental European philosophy. Analytical Marxism rejects much of the Hegelian and dialectical tradition associated with Marx's thought.
The school is associated with the "September Group", which included Jon Elster, John Roemer, Adam Przeworski and Erik Olin Wright. This group initially also playfully called themselves No Bullshit Marxists. Its theorists emphasize methodology and utilize analytical philosophy, and some of them favor rational choice theory, game theory and methodological individualism (the doctrine that all social phenomena can only be explained in terms of the actions and beliefs of individual subjects).
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227.] Finite Cognition, when it pre-supposes what is distinguished from it to be something already existing and confronting it,--to be the various facts of external nature or of consciousness--has, in the first place, (1) Formal identity or the abstraction of universality for the form of its action. Its activity therefore consists in analysing the given concrete object, isolating its differences, and giving them the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old property relations and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of production and of exchange, within the frame work of the old property relations that have been and were bound to be exploded by those means. In either case, it is both reactionary and Utopian…
Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party
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We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others. The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the…
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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Philosophers who discussed Analytical Marxism
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- Egalitarianism
- Empiricism
- Game theory
- John Rawls
- Princeton University Press
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Analytic philosophy
- Paradigm
- Labor theory of value
- Holism
- Neoclassical economics
- Philosophical methodology
- A Theory of Justice
- Rational choice model
- Robert Nozick
- Socialism
- Brill Publishers
- Continental philosophy
- Libertarianism
- Relations of production
- G. A. Cohen
- John Roemer
- Marxian economics
- Marxist philosophy
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.