In:
Analyse & Kritik, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 4, No. 2 ( 1982-11-1), p. 197-210
Abstract:
How is it possible, at the same time, to claim that there is a causal primacy of the productive forces over the relations of production and to recognize that the development of the productive forces causally depends on the nature of the relations of production? This irritating puzzle, which threatens the very core of historical materialism, had never received a satisfactory solution until G.A. Cohen’s Karl Marx’s Theory of History. The latter asserts that only a functional interpretation of historical materialism can effect the required reconciliation. On one reading of the “primacy puzzle”, however, this claim turns out to be trivial, while on the only other plausible reading it turns out to be false. Having delineated this dilemma, the article sketches an alternative solution.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2365-9858
,
0171-5860
DOI:
10.1515/auk-1982-0204
Language:
English
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication Date:
1982
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2211788-X
detail.hit.zdb_id:
558867-4
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