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From Feudalism to Capitalism - Marxian Theories of Class Struggle and Social Change (Hardcover, New)
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From Feudalism to Capitalism - Marxian Theories of Class Struggle and Social Change (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions in Political Science
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In his new book, Katz offers a new reading of Karl Marx's theory of
history. The book re-examines two incompatible versions of
historical materialism: one ascribes the primary cause of
historical development to technological progress, the other to
class struggle. Katz argues that these versions are inadequate,
both as interpretations of Marx's theory and as explanations of the
problems of historical change. His study distinguishes three
different levels of analysis. The first level is Marx's own
summaries of historical materialism, which typically award causal
primacy to technology. The second level is Marx's historical
studies of feudalism and the transition to capitalism, where class
and class struggle play a central role. The third level is the
modern debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The
history of this transition is chosen by Katz as an empirical test
of Marxian theory because it is the principal source from which
Marx developed the concepts for interpreting the dynamics of crisis
in modes of production. By establishing a reciprocal movement
between the respective explanatory roles of technology and class
struggle on the one hand, and the historical record on the other,
Katz evaluates their relative contributions to an understanding of
the supersession of feudalism by capitalism. The result is a
reconstruction of Marx's theory of radical social change, one which
is historically and theoretically more tenable. The book's first
two chapters develop and contrast the two dominant principles of
historical causality in Marx's work: class struggle and the
development of technology. Subsequent chapters explore the history
of feudalism's decline and final disintegration, and its
replacement by capitalism, providing a critical analysis of Marx's
theory of history. From Feudalism to Capitalism is an important new
scholarly source for students of Karl Marx's social and political
thought, or students enrolled in social science programs.
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