Table of Contents

Preface; Contributors; Editor's introduction Terence Ball and James Farr; Part I. History and Revolution: 1. Marxism, revolution and rationality William H. Shaw; 2. Historical materialism and economic backwardness Jon Elster; 3. Producing change: work, technology and power in Marx's theory of history Richard W. Miller; 4. Marxism's central puzzle Philippe Van Parijs; 5. Marxian functionalism James Noble; Part II. Morals and Politics: 6. Alien politics: a Marxian perspective on citizenship and democracy Paul Thomas; 7. Democracy: utopian and scientific C. B. Macpherson; 8. Marx's moral realism: eudaimonism and moral progress Alan Gilbert; 9. Exploitation, class and property relations John E. Roemer; Part III. Methodology and Criticism: 10. Marx and positivism James Farr; 11. Marxian science and positivist politics Terence Ball; 12. Marxism as method Terrell Carver; Indexes.

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