The author establishes how different variants of Marxism
conceptualise the structure-agency relation. He distinguishes three
groups of theories: First, there are the dichotomous approaches of
Marxism-Leninism and Guevarism. They undercut any meaningful
determination of the social because they rely exclusively on one
side of the relation in question. Second, there is the dualism of
the Althusser School and Open Marxism respectively. Both approaches
conceive of the structure-agency relation as a causal one and
bracket one of its poles, thereby misjudging the stability of
capitalism. Third, there is Marx's Critique of Political Economy
and, drawing upon it, the Strategic Relational Approach. These
approaches provide consistent conceptualisations. They are best
described with the notion of duality because they emphasise that
the social is constituted by both structure and agency. The author
discusses what this means for our understanding of capitalism, and
spells out the political implications of his findings.
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