عنوان

Historical materialism and social evolution /

0333995627

9780333995624

b768738

Historical materialism and social evolution /

[Book]

edited by Paul Blackledge and Graeme Kirkpatrick.

New York :

Palgrave,

2002.

viii, 244 pages ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical materialism and social evolution / Paul Blackledge and Graeme Kirkpatrick -- Historical materialism : from social evolution to revolutionary politics / Paul Blackledge -- Social Darwinism and socialist Darwinism in Germany : 1860 to 1900 / Ted Benton -- A Darwinian historical materialism / Paul Nolan -- Analytical Marxism and the debate on social evolution / Alan Carling -- History, exploitation and oppression / Alex Callinicos -- Progress and technology in Habermas's theory of social evolution / Graeme Kirkpatrick -- The possible wonders of technology : beyond Habermas towards Marcuse : a critical framework for technological progress / Giuseppe Tassone -- Lean production and economic evolution in capitalism / Tony Smith.

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"Historical Materialism and Social Evolution brings together a range of essays that reassess and reaffirm the evolutionary component of Marx's theory of historical materialism. The authors of this collection insist that a viable Marxist theory of history must both include an evolutionary component and be compatible with and grow out of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection without collapsing historical materialism into a version of social Darwinism. However, while there is agreement that this must be done there is no general consensus among the authors collected here on how it should be done. Rather, the authors engage in an important debate within this field; once again reaffirming the vitality of contemporary Marxist theory as both a progressive research programme and as a guide to action."--Jacket.

Communism and culture.

Communism and society.

Historical materialism.

Human evolution.

Social Darwinism.

Communism and culture.

Communism and society.

Historical materialism.

Human evolution.

Social Darwinism.

Blackledge, Paul,1967-

Kirkpatrick, Graeme,1963-

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