Analytical Marxism is an approach to 
Marxist theory that applies the techniques of 
Analytic Philosophy, along with tools of modern social science such as Rational Choice Theory.
Philosophical Beliefs[edit | edit source]
Historical Materialism[edit | edit source]
For G. A. Cohen, Marx's historical materialism is a technologically deterministic theory, in which the economic relations of production are functionally explained by the material forces of production, and in which the political and legal institutions (the "superstructure") are functionally explained by the relations of production (the "base").
Neoclassical Economics[edit | edit source]
In his A General Theory of Exploitation and Class (1982), the American economist John Roemer employed rational choice and game theory to demonstrate how exploitation and class relations may arise in the development of a market for labour. Roemer would go on to reject the necessity of the labour theory of value to explain exploitation and class. Value was in principle capable of being explained in terms of any class of commodity inputs, such as oil, wheat, etc., rather than being exclusively explained by embodied labour power. Roemer was led to the conclusion that exploitation and class were thus generated not in the sphere of production but of market exchange. Significantly, as a purely technical category, exploitation did not always imply a moral wrong.
Further Information[edit | edit source]
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marxism-analytical/
Wikipedia[edit | edit source]
Literature[edit | edit source]
- Analytical Marxism by Roberto Veneziani
- A future for (analytical) Marxism? by Roberto Veneziani
- Sociological Marxism by Erik Olin Wright
- Approaches to Class Analysis by Erik Olin Wright
- Analytical Marxism – an ex-paradigm? by Marcus Roberts
- A Brief History, Scope, and Peculiarities of “Analytical Marxism” by Fabien Tarrit
- Afro-Analytical Marxism and the Problem of Race by Tommie Shelby
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